Hacker News with Generative AI: Filmmaking

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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
The "Star Wars" sound engineer explains how the lightsaber sound was created (twitter.com)
Rare yet Impactful – Orthographic Projection in Films and Animations (cined.com)
Hal Hickel on Creating Tarkin (blogspot.com)
Animated Film Making Process (disneyanimation.com)
Video: A Language for Making Movies (lang.video)
The making of Eno, the first generative feature film (theverge.com)
The Typeset of Wall·E (2018) (typesetinthefuture.com)
Ken Burns, Faux "Storyteller" (albertcory50.substack.com)
Morgan Spurlock, filmmaker behind 'Super Size Me' documentary, dies from cancer (abcnews.go.com)
Fury Road's Practical FX Myth (textualvariations.substack.com)
Previsualization for Feature Films (1998) (stagetools.com)
'Has this guy ever made a movie before?' Coppola's battle to film Megalopolis (theguardian.com)
Apple’s “Let Loose” iPad event was shot on iPhone with Panavision lenses (prolost.com)
I was at the clapperboard for Orson Welles' drunk wine commercial (2021) (melmagazine.com)
The Deadline (2014) (thomas-huehn.com)
Playing it over and over again: how Casablanca was made (2018) (newstatesman.com)
No Experience Necessary (2003) (sagepub.com)