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2 votes
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Why we all need subtitles now
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The optical audio of sound-on-film
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James Cameron breaks down his most iconic films
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British Film Commission and the Norwegian Film Commission have signed a memorandum of understanding to boost filming collaboration
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Leftover Star Wars sets
5 votes -
Inside the documentary cash grab
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When you only cast non-actors in your movies
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Indigenous Sámi cinema meets a global audience – transformation of the Nordic Pavilion into the “Sámi Pavilion” at this year's Venice Biennale
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Film productions from around the world are eager to capture Iceland's dramatic landscapes – and to take advantage of an attractive incentive scheme
3 votes -
When a modern director makes a fake old movie
3 votes -
Please bring back voice actors, stop celebrity voices
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Noah Baumbach’s ‘White Noise’ chaotic production lasted 270+ days
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How Taika Waititi shoots a film at three budget levels
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How A24 became the ultimate film cult
8 votes -
‘Top Gun: Maverick’ first reactions: ‘Hollywood filmmaking at its most rah-rah ridiculous’
8 votes -
Watch the original 16mm Blade Runner convention reel (13 minutes)
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Tom Scott plus InCamera play with special effects and set Tom on fire
5 votes -
Workflow breakdown of every 2022 Oscars Best Picture nominee
5 votes -
Films made for Netflix look more like TV shows — here’s the technical reason why
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What we do: Disney's filmmaking process
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The art of editing and Suicide Squad
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Why Dune's visual effects feel so different
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Finnish director Jalmari Helander has started principal photography in Lapland and Helsinki on the majority English-language World War II action film ‘Immortal’
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Queen Margrethe II, reigning monarch of Denmark, is to design the sets for a forthcoming Netflix film adapted from a novel by Karen Blixen
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The hook: Scene transitions in classical cinema
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Flight of the Navigator | VFXcool
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How do you act drunk on screen – Danish film 'Another Round' features performances so convincing that it's tempting to believe the actors were tipsy
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Why biopics go so wrong
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How Tarantino shoots a film at three budget levels
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David Fincher’s impossible eye
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Samurai sword master rates ten Japanese sword scenes in movies and TV
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AI robot cast in lead role of $70M sci-fi film
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Tom Cruise plots movie to shoot in space with Elon Musk’s SpaceX
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Finnish director Jukka-Pekka Valkeapää ensured that his new film was torture for his actors, literally – but he insists his immersive methods are just like gardening
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Director Rian Johnson breaks down a scene from Knives Out
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The Lighthouse – A short visual analysis
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1917 editor Lee Smith reveals the truth about Sam Mendes' one-shot film
1917 editor Lee Smith reveals the truth about Sam Mendes' one-shot film This is my favourite passage from this article: He asked [a journalist] how long the film shoot was; she looked at her...
1917 editor Lee Smith reveals the truth about Sam Mendes' one-shot film
This is my favourite passage from this article:
He asked [a journalist] how long the film shoot was; she looked at her notes, said four months. How many days a week? Five.
Do you think they never turned the camera off, he said; just do the maths. "And she went, 'Oh, right'."
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What are the best movies mainly set in a single location?
I love single-location films, and use them as inspiration for my own very-constrained filmmaking endeavors. This is a space where great screenwriters and filmmakers shine, coming up with creative...
I love single-location films, and use them as inspiration for my own very-constrained filmmaking endeavors. This is a space where great screenwriters and filmmakers shine, coming up with creative solutions to keep things fresh and enticing with little to no variation in ambiance. Some examples:
- 12 Angry Men (1957)
- Straw Dogs (1971)
- Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
- El Angel Exterminador (Exterminating Angel, 1962)
- Phone Booth (2003)
- Coherence (2013)
- The Invitation (2015)
But I want more! Any ideas?
I should add that my motivation for this question is research for my next production, and because of practical concerns I'm only looking for single-location films in which the main location is small and simple enough that its sub-divisions cannot be considered a location of their own. For example: according to my criteria, a large house or apartment would be a single location, because its subdivisions (living room, bathrooms, bedrooms, etc) can be considered as logical parts of the main one. A shopping mall, a large condominium or an apartment complex would not be a single-location, because its many buildings and apartments are distinct and independent enough to function as locations of their own. When in doubt, try applying production pragmatics instead of pure logic. If something is logically not really another location, but would be just as hard to manage as another location (a whole new set design), it is a location. Thanks!
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For the movie The Lighthouse, Robert Eggers built a 19th-century ‘lighthouse’
8 votes -
How Star Wars was saved in the edit
12 votes -
The real fake cameras of Toy Story 4
8 votes -
The hardest effect I ever pulled off, by forty-two filmmakers, cinematographers, and effects artists
6 votes -
Why is there cardboard in Dracula?
5 votes -
Motion smoothing is ruining cinema
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The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo – Breaking convention
5 votes -
The end of erotica? How Hollywood fell out of love with sex
15 votes -
An oral history of Vincent D’Onofrio’s perfect Men in Black ‘sugar water’ scene
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The tech of ‘Terminator 2’ – an oral history
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The broken formula of music biopics
7 votes