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The new issue of Cinefex (#85) is out. The feature article is on the making of Stanley Kubrick's 2001 A Space Oddysey. Author (and Cinefex senior editor) Don Shay began the article 24 years ago by interviewing many of the film's technicians (some of whom are no longer living) but until now could never seem to get around to finishing it.
Loads of rare color stills and some even rarer production shots make this one of the most beautiful publications I have ever seen on the subject.
As the title implies, Cinefex is dedicated to the subject of special effects. These days of course it mostly focuses on digital effects. It's nice to see 42 pages of text and photo's devoted to the purely analogue mechanics of one of the greatest technical achievments in human history.
$9.50, find it at Barnes and Noble or any comic book shop.
- steve 4-24-2001 1:18 am [link] [add a comment]

filming for wasp 2001 in my office building this week. sightings thus far are tea leoni and george hamilton.
- linda 4-20-2001 7:44 pm [link] [3 refs] [add a comment]

camera obscura rooms


- bill 4-15-2001 12:27 am [link] [1 ref] [add a comment]

I had not heard too much about the upcoming mega-movie AI (Kubricks last project, now taken over by Spielberg) until a few days ago. Now the hype machine is being severely cranked up, and it appears to be one of the more delicate, involved, and downright clever hype machines in movie history. This is making the Blair Witch stuff look positively old school.

Apparently, if you download the movie trailer, and watch it way too close, you might "notice the second frame of credits is 'Sentient Machine Therapist-Jeanine Salla'. Searching for this on google.com leads to a plethora of pages seemingly outlining some fictional murder mystery having to do with robots." Except all of these pages are part of the promo machine. Some seem like real corporate pages, some seem like very personal sites, some seem like, well... see for yourself (click on that google search and start digging.) It's a whole world. Very very nice.

For the very lazy, just go here, where Ain't It Cool News wrecks the fun by pointing you to the highlights.
- jim 4-14-2001 2:50 pm [link] [1 ref] [add a comment]

jodi.org -or- 0100101110101101


- bill 4-13-2001 3:04 pm [link] [4 comments]