"For millennia, we'd never seen anything like film cuts. How do we process them so easily?" When you watch a movie nowadays, unless you're trained in the art of editing or filmmaking, you probably don't even notice most of the cuts. If the movie's editing is top notch, the cuts are designed to work in a way where you don't really sense them, so that you can still easily follow the action and dialogue in a scene. This video essay from Adam D'Arpino attempts to explain, scientifically, how our brains have adapted to film cuts so quickly. The full title of the video is - Strange Continuity: Why Our Brains Don't Explode at Film Cuts. It's a fascinating visual examination for movie nerds and science nerds alike, getting into the technical aspects of filmmaking that help our eyes, as well as the anthropological details that make it all work harmoniously.
- 11/3/2017
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Five Albums You Should Be Listening To Right Now: Glide Magazine Fall 2013 is hitting us with some seriously spry dance floor anthems. by Adam D'Arpino Adam is an entertainment reporter who writes album reviews for Glide Magazine, an online publication celebrating independent art, culture, and music. Fall is usually reserved for Bon Iver and other artists whose music conjure images of leaves shuffling in the wind and introspection. But fall 2013 has hit us heavily with some seriously spry dance floor anthems. Here are five albums that should tide you over for the season, or at least until "Reflektor" comes out. 1. Haim - "Days Are Gone" If you've never heard of upstart indie poppers Haim, give it a week. The group consists of a trio of silly talented sisters (plus drummer Dash Hutton, balancing out the chromosome scale a bit) who've been hovering [...]...
- 10/4/2013
- by Adam D'Arpino
- Nerve
Ranked: Aaron Sorkin, from Worst to Best The verbose highs and the melodramatic lows of the walk-and-talk master. By Adam D'Arpino With Season 2 of acclaimed screenwriter and walk-and-talk enthusiast Aaron Sorkin's The Newsroom reaching an apex, and the recent announcement that he'll be teaming up with Paul Greengass for political drama The Trial of the Chicago 7, we've decided to take a look back at all of his credits -- television and film -- and rank them from worst to best. 10. Malice (1993) If you've never seen or even heard of the Hitchcockian throwback Malice, worry not, there are good reasons. The tedious thriller, which stars Bill Pullman on autopilot as a Johnny Everyman college dean, Nicole Kidman as his infertile, cutie pie wife, and a young Alec Baldwin as a hotshot surgeon who's so handsome and charming that he must be up to no [...]...
- 9/13/2013
- by Adam D'Arpino
- Nerve
Everyone seems just as pumped for the Jay-z-produced soundtrack for "The Great Gatsby" as they are for the flick itself. But before we look ahead at what The Hova has in store for what we can only imagine will be the coolest-ever soundtrack to something you were forced to read in high school, let's look back at some of the all-time great movie songs.
Feature by Adam D'Arpino
20. Three 6 Mafia: 'Hard Out Here For a Pimp' ('Hustle & Flow')
Three 6 Mafia took home the Oscar for Best Original Song for this jam that confirmed what we had all already suspected: Pimpin' ain't easy. Terrence Howard and Taryn Manning's performances in "Hustle & Flow" were stellar, but there's little doubt that Three 6 Mafia's Oscar appearance, combined with host Jon Stewart's verbal Oscar tally ("Three 6 Mafia 1, Martin Scorcese 0") is what everyone remembers most about the movie.
Feature by Adam D'Arpino
20. Three 6 Mafia: 'Hard Out Here For a Pimp' ('Hustle & Flow')
Three 6 Mafia took home the Oscar for Best Original Song for this jam that confirmed what we had all already suspected: Pimpin' ain't easy. Terrence Howard and Taryn Manning's performances in "Hustle & Flow" were stellar, but there's little doubt that Three 6 Mafia's Oscar appearance, combined with host Jon Stewart's verbal Oscar tally ("Three 6 Mafia 1, Martin Scorcese 0") is what everyone remembers most about the movie.
- 5/7/2013
- by NextMovie Staff
- NextMovie
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