Category Archives: film craft
The most fascinating film editor ever
WALTER MURCH I first got to know about Murch when I read some years back that Michael Ondaatje had written a book on him. I was intrigued, a famous novelist squeezing a book out of conversations with a film editor? … Continue reading
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Lesson no. 5634898458993: How to be abstract and focussed at the same time
“…It wasn’t until I got a Nikon camera, and a long zoom lens, that I started taking portraits of people. If you take someone’s portrait on a long lens, the subject is very sharp while everything in the background and … Continue reading
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WAITER! Somebody has puked in this shake!
A few years back I and a friend caught a movie in a near-empty theater. It was something called C U at 9. It was supposed to be a horror movie. And it turned out that it was, actually, a … Continue reading
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