I was up until 2am for the past three days so I was passed out by the time the odyssey tickets went on sale.
I will do what I did for Oppenheimer and just watch it the week or two after.
@DannyDrinksWine I’ve always loved Bava’s frankness about filmmaking. He has another great quote from around this same era about mocking producers who tried to get him to remake Black Sunday in color.
Some of my TERRIBLY DRAWN storyboards for I Love Boosters. Later- we did have an amazing artist re-do them, but planned through most of prep using these. It worked. You don't have to use AI to do this shit.
Watching Red Rocket on Netflix and loving it. Noticed it’s streaming in 4K.
@Lilfilm any chance of a 4K Blu-ray release down the line? Would love to experience that gorgeous 16mm grain structure without streaming compression. 🙏
@BadFilmTakes1 Practically speaking, AI’s best use for preproduction are with certain logistics for production coordination to relieve crew of menial tasks.
Expecting to generate entire shots and create art is where things get immoral and ugly. There are professionals for that.
@BadFilmTakes1 He apparently always makes them himself, but having been in a project where that tech visualizes everything for you, it only makes mistakes.
Over 100 location scout photos were fed into a machine and it got every aspect of it wrong. I had to redo it all by hand myself.
I was on a project where one of the leaders put a bunch of tokens down and generated all the storyboards with AI in two weeks.
They were so geographically inaccurate to the location I had to make new ones with post-it notes to get them to the DP in time…
Martin Scorsese is now a partner and advisor for a generative AI startup
He says he's using AI during preproduction to help storyboard projects
“I’m interested in the intersection of technology and storytelling, and seeing how that can push the bounds of creativity to create deeper and richer experiences for audiences ... cinema is a young medium ... we have to be open to how it can evolve"
(via @nytimes)
Marcia Lucas has sadly passed away at the age of 80.
She won an Oscar for editing the original STAR WARS film, where she was described as the “heart” of the film who brought the magic alive.
and i’ll do it again - can’t recommend the funniest movie of the year so far that also has so much to say and so much hope to spread enough. one of the best (and brightest) times you’ll have at the theater in 2026.
Watch the trailer for Hammer's upcoming 4K restoration of HORROR OF DRACULA.
"For the first time outside of Japan's original '58 theatrical release, footage believed lost for over six decades has been meticulously restored. This footage has never been released in the UK or US."