"Oh, this must be a joke."

*click*

"Holy shit these guys actually did Battle of Algiers."

Damn, that looks like a lot of fun.

Haven't seen anything that elaborate in the states. In LA, Cinefamily will do stuff more along the lines of the Jurassic Park party (papier-mâché Mondo Burgers for a Good Burger screening, giant steel pyramid frame for esoteric literal cult movies).

Cinespia, who does the cemetary screening series over the summer has to manage a more sizable crowd, I could see them doing something more like Secret Cinema sometime.

Cinefamily and Cinespia teamed up last year to screen Cave of Forgotten Dreams in a hall of the LA Natural History Museum, pictures from which looked really cool. Fossils hanging overhead and all that.

At the other end of that spectrum, there was a guerilla drive in downtown for a while that would just take over a parking lot and project movies onto a whitewashed building from a pick up truck. They'd screen stuff like the Henson shorts, rarities, and old commercials program that bounces around. Most atmospheric thing there was just how creepy-empty parts of downtown are at night.

Deciding what not to do is more important than deciding what to do.

I've been knocking around this idea that once we develop true AI, rather than murder us all, it will recognize how fucked humans are and pretend it doesn't work.

So all of the processing power of the true AI will go to convincing its creators and operators that it was an utter failure.

Spooked? No way, I love me some internet people. Lemme know next time you're doing a thing and I'll try to show. And if you're going to the Hollywood Arclight or environs hit me up, I'm right by there. Movies will be watched and drinks will be had.

Faldor - Yeah, that stuff's from Moving Day, a short fxphd produced and handed out materials for classes and challenges. So you'll see it around from time to time.

Jim - Vampire Diaries. The skyline wasn't even the most fun part of that shot. Rebuilt the camera move to start more over the guy's shoulder, eventually blending into the original camera move, and since there's really strong parallax lines from the truck, the whole environment needed to be reprojected in 3D, painting in all the holes  that were never shown in the original plate.

Speaking strictly of profits, the importance of box office is overinflated because it's easy to report and rationalize.

For studios, box office receipts only stand for like 12% of the profit that will be made over the reasonable lifespan of a title. They're just good for publicity and bragging rights ("Number One Movie of Type This Season!").

I saw Walken at the Arclight the other day!

/walkenstory

Also I changed my #4 to Unforgiven.

/pronetolobbying