Once Upon A Time, The Revolution

Re: Once Upon A Time, The Revolution

feeds@yuku.com (bobmonel) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:06:55 GMT

Yeah, my film is in the can and the lab/film costs were the big expense. Everyone donated time and effort, nobody got paid. You get people who want to act and be involved in making a film. I had a 16mm camera and some equipment, all gone now. But it was very carefully composed and I used a lot of in-camera effects. It was MOS and I planned to have just effects and a voice over. It was a film within a film. It could have been very interesting. I would do it over from scatch now. To make a film...

Re: Once Upon A Time, The Revolution

feeds@yuku.com (jriddle73) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:14:46 GMT

bobmonel wrote:
I think that there will indeed be more room for no-budget visions across all these venues, as you suggest. The thing with me is that after making movies on 8mm, Super 8mm and 16mm, I tried to make a 16mm experimental/horror feature in 1973. It was very much like FEMALE VAMPIRE, complete with the cape and a scantily clad bloodsucker in misty (local) graveyards. I was not aware of Franco at the time, btw. After...

Re: Once Upon A Time, The Revolution

feeds@yuku.com (bobmonel) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:30:14 GMT

I think the future is downloads and cable TV, maybe a synthesis of the two. DVD sales are way, way down in the last year. As much as 40 % by some reports and mainstream movie ticket sales are way up. It may have a lot to do with the economic downturn with people seeing DVDs as a luxury and wanting to go out to the movies as an escape from reality. Read my END OF THE DVD ERA thread. The Wall Street Journal has had articles about the Disney proposed delivery system where you'll buy access...

Re: Once Upon A Time, The Revolution

feeds@yuku.com (jriddle73) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:56:55 GMT

bobmonel wrote:
The thing is, as you say, that Hollywood always wants to co opt innovation and imagination into the mainstream. I think the real problem in the present system of film exhibition. Two of my favorite films of recent years DIARY OF THE DEAD and INLAND EMPIRE couldn't get wide distribuiton. And they are great, innovative works by major American artists.

I was particularly surprised by...

Re: Once Upon A Time, The Revolution

feeds@yuku.com (bobmonel) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:39:32 GMT

The thing is, as you say, that Hollywood always wants to co opt innovation and imagination into the mainstream. I think the real problem in the present system of film exhibition. Two of my favorite films of recent years DIARY OF THE DEAD and INLAND EMPIRE couldn't get wide distribuiton. And they are great, innovative works by major American artists. I hate multiplexes and the entire experience of seeing movies in them. I simply don't go anymore. I worked for 10 years as a mainstream...

Re: Once Upon A Time, The Revolution

feeds@yuku.com (jriddle73) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:44:59 GMT

alexbakshaev wrote:
Even if a fraction of this beautiful prediction comes true, we're in for some great discoveries!
Sit back and enjoy the face of modern film changing...

I've been writing about it for quite some time, now, in various venues. I don't see how the proletarianization of filmmaking (let's call it) could fail to produce all sorts of...

Re: Once Upon A Time, The Revolution

feeds@yuku.com (alexbakshaev) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:39:48 GMT

Even if a fraction of this beautiful prediction comes true, we're in for some great discoveries!
Sit back and enjoy the face of modern film changing...

Re: Once Upon A Time, The Revolution

feeds@yuku.com (bobmonel) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:13:29 GMT

The fact that it's been co-opted by the mainstream is interesting. I think this was inevitable and possibly hopeful.

Once Upon A Time, The Revolution

feeds@yuku.com (jriddle73) — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:14:35 GMT

PARANORMAL ACTIVITY, reportedly made for something between eleven- and fifteen-thousand dollars, became the #1 box-office draw in the U.S. at the end of October, issuing a stern take-down to the latest entry in the mighty SAW franchise. At a fraction of the production budget of THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT, it has now eclipsed that earlier film as the most profitable ever made.

The Revolution upon us.

We've seen quite a few no-budget DIY features in the last few years. It's a...