Videos for the weekend

16th February 2013

I know I'm coming late to this, but Girl Walk // All Day (above) is a feature-length dance film that since late 2011 has been freely available to view online in twelve chapters. And its tale of a girl, played more

Links for the weekend

10th February 2013

So let's talk about Beyoncé. Everyone else is. Especially about her half-time Super Bowl show last Sunday (above, the video is embedded in several of the pieces linked to), which through the week prompted a slew of interesting pieces. These more

Videos for the weekend

9th February 2013

The first of this week's videos - which, by the way, is totally delightful and should be watched now - is discussed by the academic Jason Mittell in his post The Scared is Spread at his essential blog more

Videos for the weekend

2nd February 2013

I have my colleague Todd Macdonald to thank for the weekend's first clip: a timelapse panorama of the courtyard observed by Jeff (James Stewart, above) in Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window (1954). Todd was laid up with a bug for much more

Links for the weekend

27th January 2013

I'm not going to apologise for leading again with Randy Moore's Escape from Tomorrow(above), the Sundance-premiered film that was shot in secret at Disney World and Disneyland. I particularly want to draw your attention to It's a mad, mad, more

Videos for the weekend

26th January 2013

A selection of interesting videos that I came across during the past week and - well, that's it really... Above is an image from the Saul Bass title sequence to Otto Preminger's Carmen Jones (1954), a film discussed by Christian more

Links for the weekend

20th January 2013

The great story out of Sundance is the shooting at Disneyland and Disney World of Randy Moore's movie Escape from Tomorrow without any location permissions or copyright clearances. Believe me, as one who has tried to film at a Disney more

Videos for the weekend

19th January 2013

For this snowy Saturday, the week's selection of freely available online videos. Above, Act III of no. 3 below; no 4 has snowy aspects too. 1. How motion pictures became the movies This is a great innovation from David Bordwell's essential cinema website more