Official Trailer for ‘The Social Network’
Posted by Bobby Solomon • July 15, 2010 • Films + Video

The first official trailer for David Fincher’s Facebook-based film The Social Network is out and my god does it look great. The first thing you’ll notice is the music, a choir version of Creep by Radiohead as you see photos and icons and status updates. Around the 1 minute mark you see some actual footage and you can immediately see that this is absolutely a David Fincher film. The lighting is dark and moody, the shots are close and intimate feeling and the colors are perfectly desaturated.

I can’t wait to see this movie.

Bobby

Postcards to Alphaville
Posted by Danica van de Velde • July 2, 2010 • Films + Illustration

Created and edited by Paul Paper, Postcards to Alphaville features the work of a large group of talented artists and is a “love-letter to films and those characters that brings us, the viewers, moments of joy, sorrow and revelation and sometimes seems more real than the neighbor next-door.” The premise of this project made me think about the attachments that we develop to film characters. Having spent the last four years of my life researching and writing on the cinema of Wong Kar-wai, some of the characters in his films almost feel like a part of my extended family. And yes, writing a PhD does make you a wee bit…loony.

As I was looking through the diversely illustrated postcards, I was struck by a strange sensation of reacquaintance; characters from films that had been buried in the depths of my memory brought with them images, dialogue and moments that I had seemingly forgotten. However, what is particularly lovely about this project is that each artists’ projection of a specific character has a personal feel, offering other views and perspectives. For me, this is cinephilia at its best.

The featured illustrations are by Ana Albero, Peter Basden, Till Hafenbrak, Lisa Billvik, Jose Cardoso and Inés Estrada.

Danica

‘Apricot’ by Ben Briand
Posted by Danica van de Velde • June 24, 2010 • Films + Video

Ben Briand’s short film Apricot was originally screened about six months ago; however, a high definition version was recently uploaded to celebrate it’s submission to the 2010 Vimeo Awards, and I felt that it was too good not to share.

Evoking a nostalgic visual atmosphere, which is reminiscent of both Sofia Coppola’s The Virgin Suicides and Cate Shortland’s Somersault, the starting point for Apricot is the memory of a first love. The cinematography draws on the light, textures, colours, tastes and sounds associated with recalling this event and beautifully narrates the earliest pangs of desire. Apricot is stunningly shot and gorgeously realised; you should definitely put aside 10 minutes to watch it.

Danica

HUH. Magazine Interview with Harmony Korine
Posted by Bobby Solomon • June 22, 2010 • Films + Interview

The folks over at HUH. Magazine have a little interview up with director Harmony Korine who talks about his new movie Trash Humpers… yes, it’s about people who hump trash. If you’re a fan of Harmony Korine this isn’t really all that weird, but this is certainly one of his more colorful movies. It seems that the movie is only playing internationally for now but I’m hoping this comes to LA soon.

Here’s a little snippet from the interview I really liked:

The characters are pretty extreme. Unlike some of your other work, like Julien Donkey Boy, or Mister Lonely that deals with mental health issues in quite a complex way, the characters in Trash Humpers seem completely without morals.

Yeah, they just transcended morality, or that kind of balance. They destroy things, but they turned it into an art form, like they lived in terms of opposites. It was almost like they were living so much on the fringe that they became these kind of shape shifters or abstractions and their reality was what they invented, and it became something beautiful to them. All these ideas of destruction became a creative act. So in that way you can look at them almost as artists.

Bobby

Poster For The Movie ‘The Social Network’
Posted by Bobby Solomon • June 21, 2010 • Design + Films

The first poster for the upcoming Facebook inspired movie The Social Network was released last week and it’s definitely got me interested. The film is directed by Fight Club director David Fincher and is based upon the book The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding Of Facebook, A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal which profiles the rise of Mark Zuckerberg and his Facebook empire. The movie will star Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg (who I’ve loved since The Squid and The Whale, and was great in Zombieland) as well as Justin Timberlake as Sean Parker.

The poster itself is great, though, especially the photograph itself. Supposedly the movie is going to be pretty funny, so hopefully it’s a dark comedy if anything. I also love the details of having the Facebook interface and the scroll bar. Extremely clever and I’m totally excited to see more.

Bobby

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