The march of the penguins / la marche de l'empreur a great documentary, an extrem shooting, a life story... The march of the penguins takes place in the iced-sea, relating the travel of birds colonies walking trough it for days to birthchild in a save...
Enki Bilal Enki Bilal was born in 1951 in Belgrade, the capital of Yugoslavia, and moved to Paris 9 years later. At age 14 he met René Goscinny (illustrator of "Asterix") and famous French comix scripter Jean-Michel Charlier, who praised his drawings...
Immortel Plot Outline: New York 2095. In a strange pyramid floating in the sky, the gods of ancient Egypt are judging Horus. In the city, a young women with blue hair and tears is arrested, but she has a secret power, even to herself... Trivia: Was one...
MARCH OF THE PENGUINS Synopsis : In the Antarctic, every March since the beginning of time, the quest begins to find the perfect mate and start a family. This courtship will begin with a long journey a journey that will take them hundreds of miles across...
an article, in french for those who understand it... i moslty agree with it... DIMANCHE 13 NOVEMBRE L'architecte d'Hitler Docu-fiction sur Albert Speer. L'architecture sert-elle, comme la géographie, à la guerre ? Speer et Hitler, l'architecte du diable....
that said... there is a big problem of connection with the digital look of scenes in the film, more than 10 sfx offices worked on it, and didn't look to repect the same visual line and style... the result is mixed between what the director wanted and...
Réussir une synthèse. Ce documentaire-fiction est l'oeuvre du cinéaste Heinrich Breloer, qui a personnellement rencontré Albert Speer quelques mois avant sa mort. Un homme « affable, charmeur, serviable », qui lui proposa « très gentiment de consulter...
"hallFor cavernous interiors such as this museum-like hall in Totenkopf's lair, Adkins had to not only imagine the lighting that should fall on the actors, but also work with CG lighting artists to design the look of the scene. You don't exactly know...
"La marche de l'empereur" reste en lice pour l'Oscar du meilleur documentaire, a annoncé mardi l'Académie des arts et des sciences du cinéma à Hollywood (Californie, ouest) dans un communiqué. Le film de Luc Jacquet sur la vie des manchots empereur dans...
DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT With short steps, bent under the pitiless burden of a driving snowstorm, the emperor penguin labours through a vast labyrinth of ice. Around him, all is white, all is in violent flux. Yet the valiant bird never falters, undaunted...
cinema can't inspires itself, uses it specific language, but find inspirations trough the other expressions and arts, from opera, for lyrism and décors, theatre for acting, music, photo and painting for light and camera, composition and colours, the web,...
Some minutes after, to present "A History of Violence", both of them came, impressed and pleased to be there to present the film for the first time in France, which ever has the reputation to be provocant...and, as the tittle says, violent... Viggo will...
Joyeux Noël is maybe the best film you can actualy see on screen, it's story reveals a part of history voluntary obstructed for politcal reasons... the fight-break, cease fire, during december 1914, and peace acts / freindship between german, french and...
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow was launched a decade ago as a question in a film student's mind: how can one make a film with little money, a small crew and out-of-this-world ideas? Using his knowledge of traditional cel-animation techniques, Kerry...
blue screen lighting unrespected gives avarage results on post, i'm realy suprised by the way they used it... the film '1930's mood and texture can't be the only reason or excuse of it... second note, the black balance had (mostly) never been re-ajusted...
Capitain sky and the world of tomorrow. will try to forget the no sens of it screenplay, desapointing as some sfx, still laugh on water balls used for spalshing... anyway, focus on the cinetographhy... The originality of the film is to shoot on blue screen...
cinematography: today's light workshop 'n theories... practices based on day / night moods... on a simple set, some experimentations... Cold pale night, late afternoon, noon... different directions and gels, lights to use, reflectors, poly, flag to alined......
a true break. Enki Bilal didn't wanted to copy-paste his "BDs", but to re-visit his work, to create from it... Based on the Nickopole Trilogy ( Characters and Background -even if a beat different, pieces of backstories) he re-generated his own myth with...
Anthem is a film that explores the fundamental question, "What does the Constitution of The United States say?"Anthem presents a personal vision of the Constitution, and how a single comment, "I'm moving to France," can come to stand for the greater dream...
the second point is for director to be closer of his actors, to work on their emotions without any outside distrubtion ... but, the vision of what will be past behind, has to be well explain them... they'll have to imagine everthing around and to react...
This complex, takes its inspiration from Orson Welles "F for Fake", People working on expression, like painting, theatre, cinema, and other transcritption of truth, or one, can, and probalby feel it once... "A faker searching truth trough a lie" can sum-up...
For those who went to the "theatre du soleil", and saw "le dernier caravanserial" they'll be happy to know that the film is on post, check on the web site... It was my best theatre experience, geat stories, minimalistic, amazing, and humanist, creative,...
WHY ? Why making films? Being a director? working in cinema? Everysingle film-maker, director, ask himself, herself, the question,doubt at least once... The next reflexion comes from a personnal experience, and don't have tobe take as generality, but...
REVIEW SUMMARY It's impossible to watch the thousands of emperor penguins huddled together against the icy Antarctic blasts in Luc Jacquet's documentary film without feeling a tug of anthropomorphic kinship. Never mind that emperor penguins have been...
Miss, Mister, My name is MG, i'm a french film student of 22 years old... Yersterday, Canal+ diffused the last part of "Speer und ER" " Speer et hitler -L'architecte du Diable-" i realy enjoyed your docu-fiction and will be realy happy to get a press...
