Filmmaker Tribute Videos
Cinematical pointed me towards these really cool videos on YouTube by a 25-Year-Old freelance editor nicknamed barringer82, who has edited together a few compilation music videoes of his favorite directors. The Paul Thomas Anderson one is definitely worth a watch, especially if you’re a dan of his films. Check them out.
The Films of Paul Thomas Anderson
The Films of Quentin Tarantino
The Films of Joel and Ethan Cohen
The Films of the 1970’s
The Films of the 1990’s
The Film’s of Martin Scorsese
The Film’s of Michael Mann
Halloween Tribute
Nightmare on Elm Street Tribute
There Will Be DVD
On April 8th, I know what I’ll be buying.
So far, information is limited as details have not been officially announced, but Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood will be released in both a 1-disc and 2-disc special edition DVD. The single disc release will feature the movie in anamorphic widescreen with dolby digital 5.1 surround audio, but no extras.
The two disc special edition will include three featurettes, titled “Dailies Gone Wild,” “The Story of Petroleum,” and “15.” The 2-disc Collector’s Edition DVD will include 15 minutes worth of deleted scenes and both the teaser and theatrical trailers. A High Definition release is also planned, but no one is entirely sure if it will be Blu-ray or HD-DVD. I was hoping that Paul would record a commentary track for this film, but I can understand why he probably didn’t.
via: redvines
2008 Academy Awards Winners
Here is a listing of the 2008 Academy Award winners, followed by some commentary. Tell me what you think of the winners and losers in the comments below.
Best Picture
No Country for Old Men
Atonement
Juno
Michael Clayton
There Will Be Blood
Best Director
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen for No Country for Old Men
Julian Schnabel for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Jason Reitman for Juno
Tony Gilroy for Michael Clayton
Paul Thomas Anderson for There Will Be Blood
Best Actor
Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood
George Clooney in Michael Clayton
Johnny Depp in Sweeney Todd
Tommy Lee Jones in In the Valley of Elah
Viggo Mortensen in Eastern Promises
Best Supporting Actor
Javier Bardem in No Country for Old Men
Casey Affleck in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Hal Holbrook in Into the Wild
Philip Seymour Hoffman in Charlie Wilson’s War
Tom Wilkinson in Michael Clayton
Best Actress
Marion Cotillard in La Vie en Rose
Cate Blanchett in Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Julie Christie in Away From Her
Laura Linney in The Savages
Ellen Page in Juno
Best Supporting Actress
Tilda Swinton in Michael Clayton
Cate Blanchett in I’m Not There
Ruby Dee in American Gangster
Saoirse Ronan in Atonement
Amy Ryan in Gone, Baby, Gone
Best Original Screenplay
Diablo Cody for Juno
Nancy Oliver for Lars and the Real Girl
Tony Gilroy for Michael Clayton
Jan Pinkava, Jim Capobianco, Brad Bird for Ratatouille
Tamara Jenkins for The Savages
Best Adapted Screenplay
Joel Coen & Ethan Coen for No Country for Old Men
Christopher Hampton for Atonement
Sarah Polley for Away From Her
Ronald Harwood for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Paul Thomas Anderson for There Will Be Blood
Best Animated Feature
Ratatouille
Persepolis
Surf’s Up
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Best Documentary Feature
Taxi to the Dark Side
No End in Sight
Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience
Sicko
War/Dance
Best Art Direction
Dante Ferretii and Francesa Lo Schiavo for Sweeney Todd
Arthur Max (Art Direction); Beth A. Rubino (Set Decoration) for American Gangster
Sarah Greenwood (Art Direction); Katie Spencer (Set Decoration) for Atonement
Dennis Gassner (Art Direction); Anna Pinnock (Set Decoration) for The Golden Compass
Jack Fisk (Art Direction); Jim Erickson (Set Decoration) for There Will Be Blood
Best Cinematography
Robert Elswit for There Will Be Blood
Roger Deakins for The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Seamus McGarvey for Atonement
Roger Deakins for No Country for Old Men
Janusz Kaminski for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Best Costume Design
Alexandra Byrne for Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Albert Wolsky for Across The Universe
Jacqueline Durran for Atonement
Marit Allen for La Vie En Rose
Colleen Atwood for Sweeney Todd
Best Film Editing
Christopher Rouse for The Bourne Ultimatum
Juliette Welfling for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Jay Cassidy for Into the Wild
Roderick Jaynes for No Country for Old Men
Dylan Tichenor for There Will Be Blood
Best Foreign Language Film
The Counterfeiters
Beaufort
Katyn
Mongol
12
Best Makeup Oscar Nominees 2008
Didier Lavergne, Jan Archibald for La Vie en Rose
Rick Baker, Kazuhiro Tsuji for Norbit
Ve Neill and Martin Samuel Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
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Best Original Song
Once for “Falling Slowly” Music and Lyrics by Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova
Enchanted for “So Close” Music by Alan Menken; Lyric by Stephen Schwartz
Enchanted for “That’s How You Know” Music by Alan Menken; Lyric by Stephen Schwartz
Enchanted for “Happy Working Song” Music by Alan Menken; Lyric by Stephen Schwartz
August Rush for “Raise It Up” by Jamal Joseph, Charles Mack and Tevin Thomas
Best Original Score
Dario Marianelli for Atonement
Alberto Iglesias for The Kite Runner
James Newton Howard for Michael Clayton
Michael Giacchino for Ratatouille
Marco Beltrami for 3:10 To Yuma
Best Sound Mixing
Scott Millan, David Parker and Kirk Francis for The Bourne Ultimatum
Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff and Peter Kurland for No Country for Old Men
Randy Thom, Michael Semanick and Doc Kane Ratatouille
Paul Massey, David Giammarco and Jim Stuebe for 3:10 To Yuma
Kevin O’Connell, Greg P. Russell and Peter J. Devlin for Transformers
Best Sound Editing
Karen Baker Landers, Per Hallberg for The Bourne Ultimatum
Skip Lievsay for No Country for Old Men
Randy Thom, Michael Silvers for Ratatouille
Matthew Wood for There Will Be Blood
Ethan Van der Ryn, Mike Hopkins for Transformers
Best Visual Effects
Michael Fink, Bill Westenhofer, Ben Morris and Trevor Wood for The Golden Compass
John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson and John Frazier for Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
Scott Farrar, Scott Benza, Russell Earl and John Frazier for Transformers
2008 Honorary Academy Award
Robert F. Boyle (For career in Art Direction)
Best Animated Short Film
Peter & the Wolf
I Met the Walrus
Madame Tutli-Putli
Même les Pigeons vont au Paradis (Even Pigeons Go To Heaven)
My Love (Moya Lyubov)
Best Live Action Short
Le Mozart des Pickpockets (The Mozart of Pickpockets)
At Night
Il Supplente (The Substitute)
Tanghi Argentini
The Tonto Woman
Best Documentary Short
Freeheld
La Corona (The Crown)
Salim Baba
Sari’s Mother
Good Quotes from Host host Jon Stewert:
“No Country For Old Men, Sweeney Todd, There Will Be Blood. All I can say is: thank God for teen pregnancy.”
“Even Norbit got a nomination, which is great. Too often, the Academy ignores movies that aren’t good.”
“Diablo Cody wrote Juno, such a great movie. Cody used to be an exotic dancer and now she’s an Oscar-nominated writer. I hope you’re enjoying the pay cut.”
“Film Editing, alright. Someone just took the lead in their office pool based on a guess!”
My Thoughts:
The opening which combined characters from some of the most memorable films of all time was EPIC.
Transformers got screwed for Best Visual Effects. Did any of the academy members who voted for The Golden Compass have 20/20 vision?
Of all the nominees in the best supporting actress category, Tilda Swinton was the least expected contender for Michael Clayton. But somehow Swinton beat out Cate Blanchett in I’m Not There, Saoirse Ronan in Atonement and Amy Ryan in Gone Baby Gone. How could this have happened? Amy Ryan deserved the win, even Tolda looked shocked when they read her name.
Enchanted had three of the five original song nominations, but the power of Once could not be stopped. I’m so glad that Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova took home a statue. They deserve it. And how fucking cool was it for Jon Stewert/The Academy to bring Marketa back on stage to speak after the music cut her off.
How cool is it to hear Greenwood’s There Will Be Blood theme being played as people walk to the stage?
I was so much looking forward to what Michael Moore was going to say once he got up on the Oscar stage once again. And besides, he deserved to be there, but it didn’t happen. And I’m still angry that The King of Kong wasn’t even nominated.
Diablo Cody wins best screenplay - Hell yeah. And how great was it to see the tough girl breakdown.
In true Oscar fashion, The Coen Brothers were rewarded by the Academy for their combined filmography, where Paul Thomas Anderson clearly deserved the Best Director and Best Picture awards.
The 2008 Academy Awards has come to a close. There Will Be Blood lost to No Country, The Bourne Ultimatium had three wins, Norbit and Transformers lost, and Diablo took home a gold statue.
What did you think?
Do you agree with the winners?
David Fincher to Direct Graphic Novel Adaptation Black Hole
Update: Neil Gaiman said on his personal blog yesterday that he is still co-writing the Black Hole script with Roger Avary. Seems rather stoked on Fincher’s involvement as well. Thanks to reader ‘Nancy.’
“David Fincher tackling STDs, not like herpes, worse,” is the imagined, beaded brow pitch to the studio. It worked. The director of the Oscar-shunned modern masterpiece Zodiac, as well as Fight Club, is attached to direct a film based on the comics-turned-acclaimed graphic novel, Black Hole, by Charles Burns. Brad Pitt’s Plan B is producing the project, but like DiCaprio’s Akira, no official word if Pitt is involved to star. Roger Avary and Neil Gaiman were set to adapt the screenplay in 2006, but no word if Fincher is doing his own thing here.
Set in the ’70s, Black Hole is a 12-issue comic that followed teenagers who spread “the Bug,” a fictional, incurable STD that causes the sexually-active to develop horrific physical deformities, as well as those who didn’t catch it but reacted to the plague. As you might expect, this turns the infected teens into social outcasts, and the plot synopsis at publisher Pantheon Graphics reads, “What we become witness to instead is a fascinating and eerie portrait of the nature of high school alienation itself - the savagery, the cruelty, the relentless anxiety and ennui, the longing for escape. And then the murders start.”
Fincher’s next theatrical release is December’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button starring Brad Pitt, which is already receiving almighty buzz. Unlike Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood, I don’t think Fincher has crafted his end-all-be-all American classic yet. And while Black Hole sounds too fun and twisted to be it, I hope he’ll next be gearing up for the serious sci-fi epic Rendezvous with Rama, one of several projects he’s latched to, another being the Eliot Ness serial killer flick Torso. But a Fincher Ghost World, are you friggin’ kidding? The eclipse has played into some strangely bi-polar news today, and this may be the peak of awesome.
Of note, Alexandre Aja was originally on board to direct this, but he has other fish to fry (and can I just add that a mere two comments for his upcoming Piranha 3D periodically had me questioning life?).
Along with Blankets, Black Hole has been in my “graphic novel requisite procrastination” queue on Amazon for at least six months. I didn’t realize it was originally published by the long-gone Kitchen Sink Press, a company I fondly remember back in the day when I bought comics, if only for seeing its Crow titles amongst the latest The Maxx and Pitt. Damn, this is going to be cool flick, nostalgia can take a hike. And shout out to Paramount Pictures for booking Fincher for three flicks in a row now. That rocks.
Source Link: Variety