Posts Tagged: Film

The Social Network is the recent film from David Fincher about the founding of Facebook. Tim Van Damme recommended the soundtrack on Twitter, and at $5 – yes $5 – it seemed a veritable bargain; quick preview confirmed that to be so. It’s a dark suite of electronica, which having since seen the film doesn’tContinue Reading ›

This is fantastic. From Vimeo: An experimental film in homage to Ridley Scott’s legendary futuristic film “Blade Runner” (1982). Created by extracting 167,819 frames from ‘Blade Runner’s final cut version, then assembling all these images to obtain one gigantic image of colossal dimensions : a square of approximately 60,000 pixels on one side alone, 3.5 gigapixels.Continue Reading ›

You’re born, you take shit. You get out in the world, you take more shit. You climb a little higher, you take less shit. Till one day you’re up in the rarefied atmosphere and you’ve forgotten what shit even looks like. Welcome to the layer cake son. — Eddie Temple

One of the things that I kept thinking about in New York was how important films and TV shows had been in setting some of my expectations about the city, and also in making it feel oddly familiar at the same time. I saw a number of locations from films in my all too shortContinue Reading ›

I’m more excited than perhaps I should be about seeing Objectified; the new documentary from Gary Hustwit director of the excellent Helvetica. But you see it’s not just any screening that I’m attending. Not only is it the first screening in the UK, but it will be attended by Jonathan Ive the design supremo fromContinue Reading ›

In the words of Neo “whoa”. I can’t believe it’s ten years since The Matrix was released. I can remember seeing the “What Is The Matrix?” teaser trailers and knowing from those that I had to see this film. But even the brilliant teasers and trailers couldn’t prepare me for just how cool this movie wasContinue Reading ›