Sellebrity: A Fantastic Doc About the Paparazzi
$ellebrity is a documentary about paparazzi culture and its origins. The movie was produced and directed Kevin Mazur who is himself a celebrity photographer.
I stood there looking at 10 pounds of camera gear, contemplating what I should take with me on a trail run that I’d never attempted in Joshua Tree National Park. I almost turned and started up the trail with nothing, but at the last second remembered the Sony NEX-6 that …
“Girl Rising” is less like a movie than an extended commercial for girls’ education around the globe. Through a hybrid style combining dramatization and documentary, girls act out stories adapted from their life by acclaimed writers from their country, while famous actresses like Meryl Streep and Selma Hayek serve as …
An epic comparison of the Canon Cinema Primes and the L Series. Like my friend Greg Watermann said when he sent this to me; why can’t all gear tests be this creative.
Diana Vreeland’s living room is red. Red sofa, red walls, red flowers. Red patterned wallpaper mimics the red flowered upholstery. Fondly, Diana refers to the room as a “garden in hell.” In a photo in the film, Diana, also wearing red, doesn’t just recline, but floats on the sofa evoking …
$ellebrity is a documentary about paparazzi culture and its origins. The movie was produced and directed Kevin Mazur who is himself a celebrity photographer.
Initially the Huffington Post ran this under the headline Joaquin Phoenix Gives Bizarre Statement After Winning Award.
There’s nothing bizarre about it. It’s honest, awesome and calls attention to some of the below the line folk who are critical to making a movie. … Continue Reading
Jeff Zucker started his new gig at CNN World Wide on a bass note. He brought back the twenty year old audio tag done by James Earl Jones. I don’t know why I find that so cool, but when they got rid of the JEJ’s voice on the news network, I really kind of missed it.
I wonder if the JEJ would do a little something for PhotoCine News. I can hear it now; “This is PCN.”
Don’t look at me so funny, I can dream.
Steven Zeitchik at the LA times with an excellent piece about Escape From Tomorrow, a film by Randy Moore shot at the Disney theme parks without Disney knowing about it. Moore and company invented some innovative ways to run the set so they wouldn’t get noticed:
To make the movie, Moore wouldn’t print out script pages or shot sequences for the 25 days he was filming on Disney turf, instead keeping all the info on iPhones. This way, when actors and crew were looking down between takes, passersby just thought they were glancing at their messages.
Zeitchik writes that even though the movie was shot guerrilla style, it doesn’t look like it on the screen.
What’s remarkable about all this is that, in watching the film, one doesn’t get the feeling of a guerrilla filmmaking exercise. There are numerous wide shots, and scenes luxuriating in classic Disney images. It looks as if it was made with the full cooperation of the company, which of course it wasn’t.
For me, the best part of this story is that Moore isn’t thumbing his nose at Disney. He’s got nothing against the company at all. He just wanted to make a film.
Last week a few people piled on Vogue magazine for their fashion editorial entitled Storm Troupers.
Katherine Goldstein maligned, “Is this what happens when Anna Wintour feels emotion?”.
Jason Kottke decried, “I guess they were going for inappropriate & provocative but hit inappropriate & idiotic instead?” He continued that if American Vogue wants to something provocative then it should follow the tasteful lead of Italian Vogue and photographer Steven Meisel.
I wonder if he realizes that the same editorial/photographer team also used the BP oil disaster in Louisiana as the inspiration for a fashion spread. The piece is oft criticized as a low point in the history of fashion photography.
This video came to me with the following note:
Hola les dejo este video que hice con imágenes de instagram que viendo el contenido de su página seguro les puede interesar para publicar.
I stuck it into Google Translate but I think there’s probably a better translation out there. If you speak Spanish, please let us know what Lucas Otero said above. He’s produced a fabulous little video made up of photos from Instagram.
Muchos gracias Lucas. Your video earns a coveted seat in the PCN Screening Room.
