Cloverfield Online

Ain't it Cool has five minutes of Cloverfield online right now. I started watching it but I'm going to try and be patient for 1.18.08

It's Christmas Time!

My good friend, Mike Timm, made this short a few years ago for christmas. I didn't even realize he had it online until tonight so I figured I'd post it to get everyone in the holiday spirit and see what a brilliantly clever guy Mike Timm is. Enjoy!

There Will Be Blood - Deleted Scene

Gotta love the internet. You can now watch a deleted scene from a movie whch hasn't even been released yet. www.littlebostonnews.com was the first official website for There Will Be Blood, while it was shooting. There now is only a deleted scene up. Check it out.

See Real Ten Eyck: Really See Ten Eyck

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I met Carla Ten Eyck this summer at my first and sadly to date, only PUG Meeting. We became fast friends, breaking balls, trading movie quotes, pop culture references and the like. She expressed an interest in doing a video about her for her wedding photography business. With my workload at the time, I wouldn't have been able to pull it off. She also had mentioned a project that immediately intrigued me. She had posed the question "How do you feel most beautiful?" to numerous women and then photographed them according to their response. The result is a beautiful book filled with powerful images and wonderful words and stories to accompany them. The idea of "beauty" is interesting to me and I was even more interested in someone as cool, and well, interesting as Carla had vaulted such a cool project. Personally I thought it was a perfect idea to be captured in a documentary style. Also, this was a much more managable project than a video based on her business- one day of shooting and then the editing- so Carla bravely agreed to hire me.

2 months ago I had the pleasure of interviewing, Carla and three of her subjects- Jean, Marsha, and Susannah. Then we attended and shot the official opening of the project at the Hartford Public Library, where her pictures are still hanging and will be until December 15th. I highly recommend getting up there and checking them out.
We had a great time shooting, at least I did, and then we capped the night off with some beers and food and a big group of great people who all turned out to support Carla and her fantastic project. Now Carla is not done yet- she wants to take this idea and project international- photographing women all over the world! If you've met her you have no question in your mind that she will accomplish this and then some! Here's to the person who's smart enough to fund it for her!

I want to thank Jean, Marsha and Susannah for their time and wonderfully candid remarks. You all are very natural and relaxed on camera and made job so much easier.

Big up yourself Bob 2.0! Can't thank Bob enough, once again for his hard work on and off the set, as well as being a good, super supportive friend and fellow collaborator. Bob is a utility guy in every sense of the word. He ran sound, operated second camera on the interviews and shot b-roll with me at the opening and he also does all the graphics and photos. Thanks Bob, I couldn't have done it without you!

I want to thank Carla for her kindness and patience with my busy schedule- allowing me to finish at my own pace and trusting my vision. She was trusting (or psychotic) enough to believe in our work and see what we came up with. Mostly I want to thank her for her beautiful project and I hope it inspires you as much as it inspired me.

There Will Be Bloody Good Music!

Shutter Island

Word is Mark Ruffalo is very, very close to signing on as Dicaprio's co-star in Shutter Island! Good news in my opinion as I'm a big fan of Ruffalo. Eternal Sunshine, You Can Count on Me, Zodiac...the list goes on. So the question is, who is going to lens the film? Scorsese goes back and forth between Michael Ballhaus and Robert Richardson. He used Roger Deakins once, maybe he'll go back. Personally, I'd love it if he grabbed Rodrigo Prieto.

Digg This Shit!

Head on over to digg.com and check out Potty Boy's new video. It's hilarious and you'll get to meet the incomparable Grace! Go now.

No Country for Old Men

I'm a big fan of the Coen Brothers, but I wasn't exactly a huge fan of their last two films. Their latest, is easily one of their best, and that's saying something. No Country for Old Men is told in a very simple, straightforward, and clean way. That's why it's so effective. Also, as the film progresses they make some choices that will surprise you and I found them invigorating. The story is simple; A man, Llewelyn Moss is out hunting and he comes across a bloodbath, a shitload of heroin and 2 million dollars in cash. He takes it. The Coens have made a few movies about people who take something that doesn't belong to them and the consequences they face. Moss faces one of the most memorable screen villians I've ever seen. Played to perfection by Javier Bardem, Anton Chigurh, is a cold, relentless killer sent to track down the money and the man who took it. Their cat and mouse chase is taut and nail biting. The film is quietly simmering. You can smell the violence and danger and you fear for Llewelyn immediately because you know, as well as he does actually, that he is, in a word, fucked. I saw this film a week ago and their are scenes that have not left my brain and lines of dialogue that echo in my head. The work in and on the film is terrific. The Coens adapted the screenplay from a book by the same name from author Cormac McCarthy. Josh Brolin, Javier Bardem, Kelly MacDonald and Tommy Lee Jones are give excellent performances and as usual, one of my favorite DP's shot the shit out of this film. Roger Deakins work is striking and the visuals are a character of their own in the film.

I truly can't recommend this enough.

Cloverfield

Okay here we go. Small but important tidbit.