Please check my jazzblog at jazzpages.tumblr.com In 1958, fashion photographer Bert Stern (famous for Marilyn Monroe’s last photo shoot ‘The Last Sitting’, six weeks before her death) set out to make a film about the annual Jazz festival in Newport, Rhode Island. He approached his subject as an occasion to prove that music didn’t have to be merely recorded; the film making itself could be as artful as the onstage sound. So the movie is itself a piece of jazz; in the first half of the film, the camera often wanders away from the stage to fixate on the crowd and the boats in the America’s Cup yacht races, thus creating a great time capsule. Fielding five cameras simultaneously, some handheld and some with telephoto lenses, and using the finest Kodak positive-reversal color film, Stern captured brilliant images that, as he said ‘just jumped off the screen’. Usually jazz films are all black and white, kind of depressing and in little downstairs nightclubs. This brought jazz out into the sun. It was different.’ Hence the selection for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as being ‘culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant’.

I don’t want to give up accounting because 1. it pays the bills and 2. I worked hard to be a professional. But, accounting eats away most of my day, and I found out my heart lies w/ film-making. Suggestions please

Track is by Arch Enemy – “Vengeance Is Mine”. Just when you thought the producers of “That’s It, That’s All” couldn’t top themselves comes a new breed of snowboarding entertainment. The Art of FLIGHT follows Travis Rice, John Jackson, Mark Landvik, Scotty Lago, Jake Blauvelt, Nicolas Muller, Gigi Ruf, DCP, Mark McMorris and Pat Moore as they dream up new global adventures and progress the sport to unimaginable levels. Brain Farm has gathered an arsenal of the most advanced and progressive film making technology to bring the masses a snowboarding adventure of epic proportions. Filmed on location in Jackson Hole, Alaska, Chile, Aspen, Patagonia, British Columbia and more, FLIGHT brings the viewer along for the perfect blend of adventure/travel drama and high-energy snowboarding action. The Art of FLIGHT releases September 2011. Buy and rate the movie here! win.gs RedBullUSA.com http BrainFarmCinema.com

More INFO on the Short Film School DVD www.tlapro.com Learn what makes great looking images in film, music videos etc. It’s not always the camera but how you design the shots. In this 4th tutorial I try to explain how I use the exact same setup I used in the previous tutorial for a different scene from the same film. To buy this film on DVD please go to www.tlapro.com The comedic duo that you see in this clip are actually the members of Nocturnal Emissions Comedy… hillarious guys! Please check out their videos here! www.youtube.com For more info on the film see the official page: www.facebook.com

A small city in the tropical north of Queensland, Cairns boasts a life that is leisurely and comfortable. The tempo quickens, however, at cane-cutting time when the sugar is harvested, and in winter when tourists come north to escape the cold. Made by The Commonwealth Film Unit 1964. If you know anyone in this film or anything about it please let us know. We’d love to get more detail.

For a religion project I have to find a patron saint of something and write an essay about him or her. I am into film making and directing. Is there any patron saint of something like that? And I need a real patron saint, like a guy that as been canonized and is with the church and is dead. please respond. thank u.

Part one of an incredibly insightful look into Francis Ford Coppola. Harlan Jacobson conducts this interview in which FFC opens up about film making in the early days and how his career as a director has changed over the years. Coppola discusses The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, wine making, literature, the life changing loss of child and gives his take on the future of film as an art form. Forgiving quiet audio, this video interview series is a must see for any Coppola fan. Feel free to visit us at talkcinema.com for more film news exclusives. You can post your own film reviews here on our YouTube channel, join our discussion community, visit one of our sneak preview screenings nationwide, or even travel with us to international film festivals. Thanks!

Made by The Commonwealth Film Unit 1966. Directed by John Abbott. In making this film about the Vietnam War, the Australian Commonwealth Film Unit did not look for battles and heroes. This was to be the story of the young Australians who were carrying on the standards of service begun by their grandfathers during the First World War. The emphasis was on people, both Australian and Vietnamese. The intention was to show what war really feels like.

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I am the first one in my troupe to do it and I don’t know how they judge it. Do the critics ask you any questions over there, do you have to present your film, do they interview you or is it judged before-hand and then shown to the public? Thanks!