Math in the Movies

The Verge highlights the research of Pixar Senior Scientist Share Tony DeRose:

“The topic of DeRose’s lecture is “Math in the Movies.” This topic is his job: translating principles of arithmetic, geometry, and algebra into software …

Kickstarter Funds 25% of SXSW13

Kickstarter reports on the SXSW Film Festival 2013:

In the past three years, more than $100 million has been pledged to film projects on Kickstarter. Filmmakers have successfully funded nearly 9,000 projects, with support from more …

Film Festival Mad Libs

Ethan Kuperberg writes an all-too true piece of satire for The New Yorker:

The Independent Film Festival is proud to promote the most innovative, groundbreaking independent cinema in the world. We believe in our commitment …

The Art of the Steadicam

From Refocused Media:

Invented by Garrett Brown in the early 70’s, the steadicam shot — or ‘steadishot’ — has become one of the most dynamic and exciting forms of cinematography and is one of the …

Video Games Open Friday at MOMA

Brian Crecente at Polygon writes,

“Video games invade the Museum of Modern Art in New York City this year, sharing space with the likes of Andy Warhol’s Tomato Soup Cans, Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Night and …

“Star Trek” and Wonder

J.L. Wall writes on Star Trek over at First Thoughts:

“Saturday evening, burned out and brain-dead after two weeks of grading papers, I plopped down in the living room to take advantage of my weekend …

TV Pilots Turn to Net

Don’t Touch That Remote: TV Pilots Turn to Net, Not Networks, The New York Times

In the television pilot that Cheyenne Jackson taped recently, he played an aggressive young news anchor whose ascendancy threatened an …

Fitted for the Grasping of Truth

Martin Luther, Letter to Eoban Hess

“I am persuaded that without knowledge of literature pure theology cannot at all endure, just as heretofore, when letters have declined and lain prostrate, theology too, has wretchedly fallen …

Watch Tarkovsky Online

The final film of Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky, The Sacrifice (1986), has just been made available on Netflix Instant Streaming. While unfortunately presented in standard definition, this is still a great resource from a master …

Making “To the Wonder”

Director Terrence Malick’s new film To the Wonder is a month away from release in the United States. Here are three featurettes documenting Malick’s unique creative process.

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