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Not too sure what to make of this, but BMW is now in the film business. Or at least on the edge of it that rubs up against the advertising business. John Frankenheimer leads off an impressive list of directors (also: Ang Lee, Wong Kar-Wai, Guy Ritchie, and Alejandro González Iñárritu) all producing 5 minute shorts to be shown on the BMWfilms site. The Frankenheimer is already there (in Quicktime, Real, and Windows Media formats.) And you guessed it, each piece features a BMW automobile. Is this the future of free content? High end commercials? And if it is - and keeping in mind the relative quality of television shows compared to television commercials - is this a bad thing?
Cinema of Transgression
"Where Evil Dwells' was about suburban life, kind of crashing in on itself. Ricky
Casso was a high school kid. He grew up in the suburbs and he went to some
extremes to get some attention. He talked a bunch of his friends into doing these
rituals. They killed cats and dogs and shit like that. They tried to get into the satanic
world because other kids would be scared of them, fear them, respect them. Ricky
eventually killed Gary, who was a friend of his, supposedly because he stole angel
dust. So then, Ricky said if he ever got caught,he would chase Gary's soul to hell
and track him down. Which is what we did in 'Where Evil Dwells', after the other
kid gets killed, he finds Gary and the devil and that's where the movie ends. He's
happy; 'cause he like, got what he actually wanted."
- Tommy Turner
and the rest
Find Terry Southern.
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.