Hacker News with Generative AI: Filmmaking

Quentin Tarantino – What is a movie you want to see? Make that movie (2017) (indiewire.com)
Quentin Tarantino may be one of the biggest filmmakers in the world, but he’s never lost the drive to foster young talent.

Quentin Tarantino, Filmmaking, Movie Recommendations, Interviews

5 points by walterbell 10 hours ago | 2 comments

Legal art forgery, for the sake of movies (2014) (vanityfair.com)
Imagine this: You’ve just spent three weeks painstakingly replicating a Picasso painting from scratch—you’ve scrutinized documentation about the artist’s creative process; you’ve practiced his brushstrokes, so your work will look convincing; you’ve even painted in noted preliminary images, then covered them up, because that’s what he did. You’ve toiled over this, all for mere seconds of screen time in a film.

Art Forgery, Filmmaking, Entertainment, Art, History

69 points by theneedful 11 days ago | 35 comments

Hunt for Red October 1990 (2016) (modelshipsinthecinema.com)
Visual Effects Supervisor - Scott Squires Visual Effects Director of Photography - Patrick Sweeney The effects for this movie were originally being done at Richard Edlund's Boss films and nearly five months of miniature submarine construction was undertaken under the supervision of Greg Jein.

Visual Effects, Filmmaking, Movie Production, 1990s

328 points by nixass 29 days ago | 137 comments

'No Other Land' Filmmaker Beaten and Detained, Claims Activist Group (hollywoodreporter.com)
One of the co-directors of the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land has been injured and detained after a conflict that took place on the West Bank, according to his fellow filmmaker and an activist group.

Filmmaking, Activism, Israel, Palestine, Documentary

24 points by suraci 45 days ago | 2 comments

Binocular Shot (binocularshot.com)
A tribute to movies with inaccurate binocular shots

Movies, Filmmaking, Humor, Criticism

58 points by bookofjoe 61 days ago | 32 comments

Walt Disney's MultiPlane Camera (Filmed Feb. 13, 1957) [video] (youtube.com)

Walt Disney, Filmmaking, Animation, History, Video

190 points by kristiandupont 63 days ago | 55 comments

Nine Explained (linusakesson.net)
In this video and accompanying article I reveal how the seemingly impossible effect in Nine was pulled off.

Explainer Videos, Filmmaking

7 points by layer8 68 days ago | 1 comments

Binocular Shot: A tribute to movies with inaccurate binocular shots (binocularshot.com)
A tribute to movies with inaccurate binocular shots

Movies, Filmmaking, Visual Effects, Humor

5 points by gaws 76 days ago | 2 comments

Tech-Noir: How One Scene in 'The Terminator' Changed Science Fiction (2018) (wearethemutants.com)
The Tech-Noir club scene in The Terminator is a masterpiece of action film-making, arguably the most important sequence of the movie, and the club itself—its decor and atmosphere, its customers, its soundtrack, its very name—has had an extraordinary influence on the development of sci-fi and subsequent reimaginings of the 1980s aesthetic.

Science Fiction, Movies, Filmmaking, 1980s

4 points by austinallegro 113 days ago | 0 comments

How did they make cars fall apart in old movies (2017) (stackexchange.com)
A staple of old Buster Keaton/Laurel and Hardy films is the car that falls completely apart, either when closing one of the doors or even when driving, like so:

Filmmaking, Comedy, History, Cars

281 points by mgsouth 116 days ago | 102 comments

Eyes Wide Shut: Hidden in plain sight (boydrinksink.com)
Eyes Wide Shut, more than any other movie, gave rise to my interest in cinema as a compelling storytelling medium.

Movies, Filmmaking, Storytelling

128 points by jim-jim-jim 147 days ago | 87 comments

Every arthouse buff you know is pirating films (i-d.co)
Earlier this year, Daniel, a filmmaker from England, wanted to watch Béla Tarr’s take on Macbeth, a TV movie by the Hungarian auteur that had aired in 1982 on the Magyar Televízió network.

Filmmaking, Piracy, Arthouse Cinema

115 points by XzetaU8 179 days ago | 135 comments

Scratches in 2001: A Space Osyssey (2018) (aphelis.net)
There is a set of scratches in 2001: A Space Odyssey that are not on the film, but in the film. They were filmed during production, in 1965 or 1966, visible at the same moments and locations within the frame in most copies of the movie, from VHS and Blu-ray releases to 70 mm and IMAX prints. It remains unknown if they were visible during the film’s premiere in April 1968.

Movies, Filmmaking, History

121 points by hyperific 201 days ago | 53 comments

28 Years Later: Danny Boyle's New Zombie Flick Was Shot on an iPhone 15 (wired.com)
Even though professional, cinema-quality digital cameras are now commonplace, they're generally not small or compact. (Take a look at Arri's current lineup, for example, with its Mini LF, used to capture Deadpool & Wolverine.) However, Danny Boyle’s forthcoming zombie flick, 28 Years Later, was shot over the summer with a bunch of adapted iPhone 15s, WIRED has learned, making the Hollywood thriller, with its budget of $75 million, the biggest movie to date filmed with smartphones.

Movies, Technology, iPhones, Filmmaking

17 points by thunderbong 231 days ago | 10 comments

The "Star Wars" sound engineer explains how the lightsaber sound was created (twitter.com)

Sound Design, Filmmaking, Star Wars

6 points by mcenedella 250 days ago | 2 comments

Rare yet Impactful – Orthographic Projection in Films and Animations (cined.com)

Filmmaking, Animation, 3D Graphics, Visual Effects

13 points by bryanrasmussen 264 days ago | 3 comments

Hal Hickel on Creating Tarkin (blogspot.com)

Star Wars, Filmmaking, Character Development

104 points by trauco 272 days ago | 82 comments

Animated Film Making Process (disneyanimation.com)