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The Art of the Shot-for-Shot Remake

November 23, 2010 in Articles with 0 Comments

So I have a minor pre-occupation at the moment with the concept of remaking a movie shot for shot. This process is not as common as one might think. Remakes of movies occur all the time in Hollywood, far too often by some people’s standards and usually with the sole intention of cashing in on a franchise that has proven itself successful in the past or with a foreign audience. But typically, the aim of the film is to re-imagine the original, infusing it with a modern day perspective or a sly ironic twist. “Staying true to the original” is a term that you will hear in certain instances but this intent is usually reserved for the spirit of the piece and not the actual content of the frames. Continue Reading…

Wong Kar Wai Sells Out..

May 26, 2008 in Catalysts with 1 Comment

For Philips Aurea.

For Lacoste.

For BMW (starring Clive Owen, Mickey Rourke, Adriana Lima and Forest Whitaker).

For Lancome (again starring Clive Owen).

For Dior (starring *cough* Eva Green).

For Softbank (starring Brad Pitt) here, here and here.

Dylan is not there

October 8, 2007 in Catalysts with 0 Comments

In a recent interview with indieWire, director Todd Haynes states that the notion of a fixed personal identity is a lie; that “it is something that we are always working on and abridging and using outside influences to keep changing.” No where is this theory better exemplified than in his new movie, I’m Not There, in which his subject, Bob Dylan is played by six different actors including Cate Blanchett and 13-year-old African-American actor, Marcus Carl Franklin. Ultimately, the movie becomes as much a study of identity for the filmmaker himself — of all of us for that matter — as it is of one of America’s greatest songwriters. As Robert Sullivan writes in his cover article in yesterday’s New York Times’ Magazine:

“Todd Haynes�s Dylan film isn�t about Dylan. That�s what�s going to be so difficult for people to understand. That�s what�s going to make �I�m Not There� so trying for the really diehard Dylanists. That�s what might upset the non-Dylanists, who may find it hard to figure out why he bothered to make it at all. And that�s why it took Haynes so long to get it made. Haynes was trying to make a Dylan film that is, instead, what Dylan is all about, as he sees it, which is changing, transforming, killing off one Dylan and moving to the next, shedding his artistic skin to stay alive.”

More from Haynes on the making of “I’m Not There” can be found here and here and here.

Auteurs On YouTube vs. Liam Lacey

August 6, 2007 in Catalysts with 0 Comments

In tribute to the deaths of two of cinema’s greatest artists, Ingmar Bergman and Michelangelo Antonioni this past week, Liam Lacey compiled an extensive* list for the Globe and Mail, organized by age group, of living filmmakers who could potentially fill their formidable shoes.

Sitting there on the screen as static ‘old guard’ media, the article begged to be given a little dynamic context. So, as the third installment of Auteurs on YouTube, I have reprinted the text in its entirety with links to related interviews, trailers and clips from YouTube whenever possible.

Auteurs on YouTube – Part 2

December 18, 2006 in Catalysts with 0 Comments

Cinematographer extraordinaire, Christoper Doyle talks about his craft on the streets of Bangkok and Hong Kong PLUS a series of commercials by collaborator Wong Kar Wai over at Girl With a Movie Camera.

Auteurs on YouTube – Part 1

September 20, 2006 in Catalysts with 2 Comments

It is a strange juxtaposition to go hunting for clips of master filmmakers on youTube. But they are there to be found.

In the great democratization of media, a clip from Fellini’s 8 1/2 stands on even par with clips as monumental to the history of cinema as Brandon Davis and Paris Hilton’s crude comments about Lindsay Lohan’s nether regions. That any one of these great film pioneers foresaw this highly compressed small screen fate for their work is asking too much even for such visionaries.

In the end, it makes for an enjoyable evening surfing through these clips. Here are but a few. I invite you to add more via the comments.

The trailer for Godard’s Breathless (with Japanese subtitles no less).

The swing scene from Kurosawa’s Ikiru.

Two classic 60′s rock n roll moments: the Yardbirds in Antonioni’s Blow Up and a great early rendition of Sympathy for the Devil by The Rolling Stones in Godards’ One Plus One.

Film historian, Peter Cowie talking about Bergman’s “Winter Light”.

The wonderful Saul Bass title sequence and opening scene of Hitchcock’s Vertigo.

And finally, one that always gives me chills with the first strains of the violin, the French trailer for Wong Kar Wai’s In the Mood for Love.