Paul Thomas Anderson's Career in Five Steadicam Shots

For those film geeks out there who like picking apart shot construction etc, here's an excellent analysis of how Paul Thomas Anderson's camerawork, in particular his use of the Steadicam, has evolved over his first five films: Hard Eight, Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Punch-Drunk Love and There Will Be Blood. We see a masterful director very much in command of film language, but one who's gradually refined and toned down his showy style for a subtler approach without losing its impact nor ambitiousness. Anderson's highly anticipated The Master will be released in NZ on 17th January from Roadshow (no 70mm screenings doh!).

The Best Impressions You'll See Today

The dude's good..
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Short Film: Dragon Baby

Simple concept (kung fu baby vs dragon), executed well = awesomeness, and awesome cuteness.

IMDB Top 250 in 2 1/2 Minutes

A couple of observations:

• Moonrise Kingdom already??
• I didn't realise Tarkovsky's Stalker was on there. Good to see a bit of taste. :)

For the Star Wars Fan with Everything #23

If you were anywhere near the internet yesterday, particularly those wee social media haunts such as Facebook or Twitter, you were probably bombarded with the earth-shaking news of Disney acquiring LucasFilm for some insane sum which could feed an entire starving nation, which in layman's terms, basically means that Star Wars has become part of the Disney family (Twitter's still going nuts with the news). It also means that we can expect a brand new Star Wars film sometime in 2015, although George Lucas won't be directing it. This acquisition means a lot of things and opens up a lot of possibilities, not least of all giving fans "a new hope" for a franchise whose legacy has somewhat been tarnished by the crappiness of the prequels. Ol' Darth seems to be settling in fine:

Happy Halloweeen!

Apologies for the lack of blog action lately - have been flat-out working on the new games section! I'll try to drop in whenever I can though. Until then have a great halloween and hope you've all got some good horror movies lined up to watch!!

Trailer: Jack Reacher

Morning! Head over to Yahoo to check out the new full-length trailer for the forthcoming Tom Cruise vehicle Jack Reacher. We get a better picture of who this Reacher dude is (ex-army cop sniffing out a conspiracy!), and most excitingly, the first glimpse of Werner Herzog as a bung-eyed villain who doesn't seem to like Reacher noseying around. The film is based on the Lee Child novel One Shot, and directed by Christopher McQuarrie, maybe still best known for writing The Usual Suspects and not The Way of the Gun, the only other movie he directed - 12 years ago. Nice to see Robert Duvall alive and kicking!