“I learned a lot about the process of filmmaking and that if you’re totally persistent and want to follow through with something, you’ll get it done.” Oren Peli For Halloween day I’ll step away from my Once Upon a Time in Hollywood posts to interject an update about the movie Paranormal Activities. The seven day [...]
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Paranormal Box Office
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged DreamWorks, Facebook, Halloween, MySpace, Oren Peli, Paranormal Activities, screenwriting from iowa, Steven Spielberg, The Blair Witch Project, twitter on October 31, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood… (Part 6)
Posted in filmmaking, tagged Aleksandr Sokurov, Bamboozled, Born into Brothels, Cloverfield.e Panasonic HVX 200, Comedian, Courteney Cox, Daniel Myrick, DV cameras, Eduardo Sanchez, Full Frontal, Gary Winick, Gregg Hale, James Cameron, Jerry Seinfeld, Katie Holmes, Lars von Trier, Nancy Schreiber, Peter Hedges, Ralph Clemente, Red camera, Robin Cowie, Russian Ark, Sony PD-150, Sony VX1000, Steven Soderbergh, Sundance Film Festival, Super Size Me, Tadpole, The Blair Witch Project, Timecode, Titanic, University of Miami film school, Valencia Community College, Youth Without Youth on October 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood …1999-2009 While Titanic was the pinnacle of the Hollywood blockbuster there has been a somewhat quiet movement in the film industry which came into prominence in 1999. While use of video came on the scene in the 1950s it’s claim about the death of film were greatly exaggerated. Fifty [...]
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood… (Part 5)
Posted in filmmaking on October 27, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood…1977-1998 Whatever blockbuster door JAWS opened in 1975 Star Wars boldly walked through and became one of the biggest cultural phenomenons of the last thirty plus years. Five other Star Wars films followed the first one bringing in a total of more than $4 billion at the box office. (The [...]
U2 on You Tube & What it Means to You
Posted in filmmaking, tagged Bono, California, MTV, Pasadena, Rose Bowl, The Streets Have No Name, U2, You Tube on October 26, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I want to feel, sunlight on my faceSee that dust cloud disappear without a traceI want to take shelter from the poison rainWhere the streets have no name Bono/U2 I’m going to break up my posts on Once Upon a Time in Hollywood to point out the significance of the U2 concert last night that [...]
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood… (part 4)
Posted in filmmaking, tagged 1941-1976, 2001 A Space Odyssey, Adolf Hitler, Best Years of Our Lives, Chinatown, Citizen Spielberg, Death of a Salesman, Five Easy Pieces, Hollywood, Is God Dead?, It Came From Outer Space, Jaws, Leave it to Beaver, Lester D. Friedman, MASH, Midnight Cowboy, On the Waterfront, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Deliverance, President John F. Ke, Rear Window, Rebel Without a Cause, Rocky, So Proudly We Hail, Sunset Boulevard., The Day the Earth Stood Still Them, The Godfather, The great depression, The Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Last Picture Show, The Manchurian Candidate, The Thing, The Wild Bunch., Time Magazine, Wall Street, War of the Worlds, World War II on October 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
“Film makers can’t get enough of Adolf Hitler. I think it’s because he’s the perfect villain.” Arnold Pistorius Once upon a time in Hollywood…1941-1976 So in a sweeping look at American film history today we’re going to clip off 35 years. Again one of the reasons for this brief look back at film history is [...]
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood… (Part 3)
Posted in filmmaking, tagged Citizen Kane, Dark Victory, Dumbo, Gone With the Wind, Goodbye Mr. Chips, Gulliver's Travels, Gunga Din, How Green Was My Valley, Jesse James, Meet John Doe, movies in 1939, Movies in 1941, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Ninotchka, Pearl Harbor, Sergeant York, Stagecoach, Sullivan's Travels, Suspicion, T.S. Elliot, The great depression, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Lady Eve, The Little Foxes, The maltese Falcon, The Wizard of Oz, World War II, Wuthering Heights on October 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Once upon a time…between 1927-1941. By 1927 the film industry was barely 30 years old but great strides artistically and its popularity grew. Filmmaking which started in the United States and France was now happening in Russia, Germany, Italy, Britain, Sweden and beyond. Film technique grew more sophisticated and the audiences simply grew. Movie theaters [...]
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood… (Part 2)
Posted in filmmaking, tagged Buster Keaton, California, Charlie Chaplin, D.W. Griffith, early film history, Encyclopedia Britannica, Fred Ott’s Sneeze., Hollywood, Jacksonville, Mary Pickford., Michigan, Milan, Ohio, Port Huron, The Adventures of Dollie, The Birth of a Nation, The Wizard of Menlo Park, Thomas Edison on October 23, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Once Upon a Time…between 1890-1927. The history of movies did not begin in Hollywood, California. After decades of advances in photographic techniques in the nineteenth century an inventor born in Milan, Ohio and raised (and homeschooled) in Port Huron, Michigan developed the motion picture system as we know it today. Thomas Edison (and his assistant [...]
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood… (Part 1)
Posted in filmmaking, tagged Billy Joel, Bruce Springteen, Nantucket, Say Goodbye to Hollywood, The Obsolete Man, The Twilight Zone, Writers Guild of America, Youngstown Sheet & Tube on October 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes I’m afraid it’s time for goodbye again Say goodbye to Hollywood Billy Joel Say Goodbye to Hollywood There is a lot of finger pointing going on in the film & TV business right now. (As I write this L.A. County has an unemployment rate of 12.7%, and [...]
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