Hacker News with Generative AI: Film

David Lynch, Visionary Director of 'Twin Peaks' and 'Blue Velvet,' Dies at 78 (variety.com)
Director-writer David Lynch, who radicalized American film with with a dark, surrealistic artistic vision in films like “Blue Velvet” and “Mulholland Drive” and network television with “Twin Peaks,” has died. He was 78.

Film, Television, Obituaries

16 points by magoghm 1 day ago | 1 comments

David Lynch, Twin Peaks and Muholland Drive director, dies aged 78 (theguardian.com)
David Lynch, the maverick American director who sustained a successful mainstream career while also probing the bizarre, the radical and the experimental, has died aged 78.

Film, Death, Obituaries, Director, American

156 points by helsinkiandrew 1 day ago | 2 comments

David Lynch has died (variety.com)
Director-writer David Lynch, who radicalized American film with with a dark, surrealistic artistic vision in films like “Blue Velvet” and “Mulholland Drive” and network television with “Twin Peaks,” has died. He was 78.

Film, Death, Television, American Cinema, Surrealism

1146 points by wut42 1 day ago | 372 comments

Coincidence between the start spacecraft scene in Prometheus and 60s phreaking (ycombinator.com)
Is there any coincidence between the scene in "Alien Prometheus" where the engineer pilot ignites the spacecraft by a piccolo and 1960s phreaking(2600 Hz whistles)?

Science Fiction, Film, History, Technology

4 points by damiaozi 2 days ago | 2 comments

The Free Movie: Frame-by-frame, handrawn reproduction of "The Bee Movie" (2023) (thefreemovie.buzz)

Animation, Art, Creative Projects, Film

277 points by gaws 5 days ago | 70 comments

Colossus: The Forbin Project (wikipedia.org)
Colossus: The Forbin Project (originally released as The Forbin Project) is a 1970 American science-fiction thriller film from Universal Pictures, produced by Stanley Chase, directed by Joseph Sargent, that stars Eric Braeden, Susan Clark, Gordon Pinsent, and William Schallert. It is based upon the 1966 science-fiction novel Colossus by Dennis Feltham Jones.

Science Fiction, Film, 1970s, Thriller

8 points by axiologist 5 days ago | 4 comments

The Typography Maestro Getting Calls from Hollywood (nytimes.com)
Teddy Blanks, the designer behind the memorable movie titles for films like “Nosferatu” and “Barbie,” has quietly become Hollywood’s go-to guy.

Typography, Film, Design, Hollywood

36 points by ripe 8 days ago | 7 comments

The accidental invention of the snow globe (2024) (smithsonianmag.com)
In the opening scene of the 1941 mystery Citizen Kane, the eponymous protagonist, played by Orson Welles, clenches a snow globe in his hand as he utters his last word: “rosebud.” The glass-encased spherical diorama of a snowy scene was a mere novelty at the time, but the film, in part, gave rise to its popularity.

History, Pop Culture, Film, Novelty Items

60 points by benbreen 16 days ago | 16 comments

Nosferatu's Robert Eggers on how folklore fuelled his film (theguardian.com)
The vampire of folklore is not a nobleman. The vampire of folklore is not a suave, dinner jacket-wearing seducer. The vampire of folklore is a corpse. An undead corpse.

Film, Folklore, Vampires

4 points by Emigre_ 22 days ago | 0 comments

The Typography Maestro Getting Calls from Greta Gerwig and Robert Eggers (nytimes.com)
Teddy Blanks, the designer behind the memorable movie titles for films like “Nosferatu” and “Barbie,” has quietly become Hollywood’s go-to guy.

Typography, Movie Design, Hollywood, Film

12 points by ripe 25 days ago | 1 comments

Decoding the telephony signals in Pink Floyd's 'The Wall' (corelatus.com)
I like puzzles. Recently, someone asked me to identify the telephone network signalling in The Wall, a 1982 film featuring Pink Floyd. The signalling is audible when the main character, Pink, calls London from a payphone in Los Angeles, in this scene (Youtube).

Music, Film, Telephony, Sound Engineering

417 points by matthiasl 27 days ago | 131 comments

Show HN: Movie Iris - Visualizing Films Through Color Extraction (github.com/LoSinCos)
The Movie Iris project was something that I started working on during quarantine. I saw some cool visualizations on Reddit's r/dataisbeautiful and was inspired to start working on the project. Some other users had already done something like this - and I wanted to try my hand at is as well. This repo is my take on turning movies into still art. Effectively taking raw movie frames, compressing them to their core colors, and visualizing the color schemes of a movie.

Programming, Data Visualization, Art, Film

78 points by losincos 30 days ago | 37 comments

Generative World Models for Film, Gaming, and Beyond (odyssey.systems)
We’re excited to welcome Ed Catmull, co-founder of Pixar, to our board. Together, we’re pioneering generative world models, beginning with Explorer.

Generative AI, Film, Gaming, Artificial Intelligence

8 points by jasondavies 30 days ago | 0 comments

Stanley Kubrick's the Shining Maps of the Overlook (idyllopuspress.com)
For some reason the idea of The Overlook's parts not fitting together can make some people upset when it really shouldn't. The initial response of many is to think in terms of continuity and design problems on a major production and that the maps are a matter of nit-picking at small details.

Film, Horror, The Shining, Stanley Kubrick, Design

63 points by weinzierl 38 days ago | 23 comments

We all took the DVD boom era for granted (filmstories.co.uk)
Nostalgia being the reality-warping entity that it is, there are certain things from years ago that aren’t quite as good as you remember.

Nostalgia, Media, Entertainment, Technology, Film

190 points by thunderbong 42 days ago | 368 comments

The zoology and biochemistry of xenomorphs from the Alien franchise (jgeekstudies.org)
In science fiction, the xenomorph emerges as a creature that transcends the boundaries of traditional extraterrestrial movie knowledge (Fordham, 2023). From the corridors of the spaceship USCSS Nostromo to the haunting silence of the primordial exoplanet Acheron LV-426 (Flowers, 2020), the creature created by Ridley Scott and H.R. Giger has become the symbol of alien terror in movies and in collective imagination (Domino, 2019).

Science Fiction, Biology, Film, Alien Franchise

118 points by zdw 47 days ago | 75 comments

NaNoGenMo 2024 novel from AI captioned stills from the movie A.I (github.com/barnoid)
An A.I. generated novelisation of the film A.I. Artificial Intelligence.

Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, Creative Projects, Novels, Film

15 points by robinwarren 47 days ago | 6 comments

Map UI – Ghost in the Shell (ilikeinterfaces.com)
Map UI (User Interface) for the film “Ghost in the Shell” Copyright Shirow Masamune / Kodansha • Bandai Visual • Manga Entertainment •

Film

158 points by aspenmayer 48 days ago | 67 comments

Ask HN: Recommend me some silent movies (ycombinator.com)
I would love silent movies which are very well detailed

Film, Silent Movies, Recommendations

58 points by Shreesha_Bhan 51 days ago | 71 comments

'Dear Mr. Kubrick': 1960s Audience Responses to 2001 — A Space Odyssey (2009) [pdf] (participations.org)

Film, History, Audience Reception

55 points by wslh 54 days ago | 66 comments

Stanley Kubrick's Annotated Copy of Stephen King's the Shining (openculture.com)
The web site Overlook Hotel has posted pictures of Stanley Kubrick’s personal copy of Stephen King’s novel The Shining. The book is filled with highlighted passages and largely illegible notes in the margin—tantalizing clues to Kubrick’s intentions for the movie.

Film, Literature, Stephen King, Stanley Kubrick, The Shining

4 points by coloneltcb 65 days ago | 0 comments

Combining 143 World War II Movies Chronologically (ww2supercut.substack.com)
For more than a year I’ve been working on the World War II Supercut, a video project that combines 143 World War II movies into one 12 hour series, with historically significant clips pulled from the movies and ordered chronologically.

Film, History, Video Editing

18 points by ww2supercut 66 days ago | 3 comments

Ghosts in the Machine (jstor.org)
Forty years ago, Hollywood made gremlins loveable—portraying them as adorable, furry creatures. Their folkloric origins are far more sinister.

Folklore, History, Film, Artificial Intelligence

80 points by gmays 77 days ago | 35 comments

War of the Rohirrim Used Christopher Lee's Archives to Bring Him Back as Saruman (gizmodo.com)
The new Lord of the Rings anime prequel War of the Rohirrim is already playing with a lot of familiar locales and figures we knew of from the original tale. But while we knew at least one familiar star from the Peter Jackson movies would return to reprise their role–Miranda Otto as Éowyn, as part of the film’s narrative framing device–we now know that one other figure from the films is returning in a touching, unexpected way.

Animation, Film, Christopher Lee

5 points by thunderbong 80 days ago | 3 comments

Teri Garr, Star of 'Young Frankenstein' and 'Tootsie,' Dies at 79 (variety.com)
Teri Garr, the comic actress and singer who brought her buoyant personality to “Young Frankenstein” and was Oscar-nominated for “Tootsie,” died on Tuesday in Los Angeles after a long battle with multiple sclerosis. She was 79.

Celebrities, Obituaries, Film, Entertainment, Music

62 points by birriel 80 days ago | 23 comments

Teri Garr, offbeat comic actor of 'Young Frankenstein' and 'Tootsie,' has died (ktla.com)
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Teri Garr, the quirky comedy actor who rose from background dancer in Elvis Presley movies to co-star of such favorites as “Young Frankenstein” and “Tootsie,” has died. She was 79.

Obituaries, Celebrities, Film, Comedy

21 points by bookofjoe 80 days ago | 11 comments

'Blade Runner 2049' Producers Sue Elon Musk, Tesla and Warner Bros. Discovery (variety.com)
Alcon Entertainment, the production company behind “Blade Runner 2049,” sued Tesla and CEO Elon Musk, as well as Warner Bros. Discovery, alleging that AI-generated images depicting scenes from the film used for the launch of Tesla’s self-driving Robotaxi represent copyright infringement.

Copyright Infringement, Artificial Intelligence, Film, Lawsuits, Tesla

6 points by sebastian_z 87 days ago | 0 comments

Nic Cage Urges Young Actors to Protect Themselves from AI (deadline.com)
Nicolas Cage took to the stage at the 25th Newport Beach Film Festival on Sunday to urge up-and-coming actors from giving into pressure from employers opting to use artificial intelligence to change or otherwise manipulate their performance.

Artificial Intelligence, Film, Acting, Technology, Entertainment

6 points by rustyparkour 89 days ago | 0 comments

David Lynch Interview Project (youtube.com)

Interviews, Film, David Lynch, YouTube

103 points by bookofjoe 89 days ago | 20 comments

Short films by Lillian F. Schwartz (1927-2024) (lillian.com)
Lillian Schwartz, resident artist and consultant at Bell Laboratories (New Jersey), 1969-2002. During the 70s and 80s Schwartz developed a catalogue of visionary techniques for the use of the computer system by artists.

Film, Art, History, Computer Graphics

105 points by kiisupai 95 days ago | 16 comments