The first ‘Battleship’ movie trailer earning Michael Bay comparisons made me think about the art and sound departments for the ‘Transformers’ franchise today. While the storytelling for those films has been all over the place, the art and sound design has been consistently exciting to me.
This SoundWorks Collection featurette exposes some of the work behind the sound design and effects for ‘Transformers: Dark of the Moon.’ Key crew members, including supervising sound editor Erik Aadahl, talk about mixing the film for 7.1 surround sound and a few of the experiments done to capture and create initial ‘wild sound’ for the film.
Recording the sound of dry ice against different metals still strikes me as especially cool. If that movie didn’t have a runtime of half my life, I’d watch it again to try to nail down some of these elements.
DJ Caruso premieres the first installment of “Inside”
It’s July 25th, which means the first installment of director DJ Caruso’s experiment in social media filmmaking hits the Internet today.
The movie’s website is currently overloaded, but the full episode is available on Youtube. So far the main character Christina, played by Emmy Rossum, has woken up to find she’s been trapped in a room. She tries to get some photos of her location uploaded to Facebook, and then her internet connection dies. Story of my life, really.
‘Another Earth’ Seems Like A Space Movie I Might Dig
When a friend sent me the trailer for “Another Earth,” I was initially skeptical. I thought, “ugh, I hate when it’s aliens,” which is what I always think about space-related movies. Obviously there are exceptions, but I find a lot of invasion movies annoying, and my least favorite plot twist in the whole world is when — surprise! — aliens were behind the mystery the whole time! (Dear ‘The Forgotten’: die in a fiat.) By the time I got about 20 seconds into this trailer, though, I decided to board the “Another Earth” train anyway, because it seems like it’s potentially heading into a town I want to visit after all.
Awkwardly-proportioned aliens who need a sandwich or two aren’t my style, but the kind of messed up existential confusion shown here definitely could be. In an with daemonsmovies.com, lead actor William Mapother says that it’s not about immediate danger or planetary threat at all, really. Instead, the movie uses science fiction to tell a story about human connection.
“Another Earth” won the Special Jury Prize at Sundance 2011, and it’s now slated for a July 22nd release.
‘The Batman Complex’ Is My Favorite Movie Never Made
The Internet is a magical place, evidence #6930875379046c —
Themanbatman is one of those glorious online fan producers dedicated to “visual creative writing” by chopping up other movies and media to create new narratives. As the name suggests, many of them are in some way related to Batman. In February, “The Batman Complex - Teaser Trailer” hit YouTube, and now the full-length trailer has started making the rounds.
“The Batman Complex” reorganizes several Christopher Nolan films (plus a few other movies on Christian Bale’s resume) and ends up with this perfect Megazord psychodrama experience. If this had been a real full-length feature film, then “The Batman Complex” would be the only movie I’d ever watch for the rest of my life, forever and ever, amen.
Wim Wenders’ Dance Tribute Movie ‘Pina’ Gets US Distribution Deal
Here’s some amazing news that I missed last week: director Wim Wenders’ 3D documentary about the famous German choreographer Pina Bausch, Pina, will now get a limited US release.
In a recent interview with Dazed Digital, Wenders described the film as “the complete reversal of what theatre and dance usually is.” It was originally meant to be a collaborative project between Bausch and Wenders, but when Pina Bausch died in June 2009, the work became a celebration of Bausch’s style. Pina is now an elegy, realized by Bausch’s Tanztheater Wuppertal company players through Wender’s lense.
“She discovered a new form. The language of our body has always been there, of course, but we didn’t know so much about it,” Wenders told Dazed.” We feel we know something about this as filmmakers and that we can judge it and give advice to actors and make corrections, but when you see Pina’s work? Then you realise we are all fucking amateurs in this language…”
The Guardian’s review of the film even dared to say that presenting the film in 3D helps created an “immensely attractive” theater space rather that detracts from the choreography. There are no definite US release dates yet, nor any official word on exactly where people should be able to see the film, but keep your ear to ground, because this Pina will definitely be a must-see for 2011.
Trailer for ‘The Social Network’ as a Comedy
Speaking of The Social Network, I’m really glad a friend of mine just showed me this remix trailer for the movie. What if the movie about Facebook had been summer comedy?
