added another short video montage (montage 02) to the main site.

find it here: showreel.

this montage has a running time of 2 minutes, 6 seconds and contains clips from troll bridge, you are being lied to, signal-to-noise, 4am friday, and red letters

still finding it difficult to cut down a larger reel into smaller chunks, but figured the more available content i put up, the better.

like the other clips on this site, quicktime 7+ and javascript enabled are required. the content should load in an overlay of the page and not open up a new window or take you away from the current page.

slowly/steadily adding media clips to the main site.

right now there’s a short montage and the trailer for red letters, but there’s much, much more i’ll be uploading in the near future so stay tuned.

the biggest hurdle is breaking down a previously cut reel from dvd— with its own flow and style for that format—into more digestible web-ready units. it’s refreshing to be going back over these films again but also very time consuming.

enjoy: showreel

ps. codewise, i’m displaying the content with a lightbox style effect via javascript, and while all of the code and everything i’m doing is standards complient, i’ve yet to test it on a windows machine.

so… if someone on a windows machine could let me know if you’re experiecing any quirks loading or watching the video, i’d much appreciate it. quicktime 7+ and javascript enabled are required. the content should load in an overlay of the page and not open up a new window or take you away from the current page.

this could easily lead into another “how in the hell did The Departed win best picture?” rant, but i’m not going to go there.

instead, let me just say that Children of Men is incredible.

i’d read about it a month or so ago in American Cinematographer and have been itching to see it ever since. unfortunately i didn’t make it to the theatre in time to see it on the big screen, but thankfully it’s out on dvd.

so much of this film was wonderful. the story, the theme, the acting, the cinematography, the directing, the directing, the directing. incredible. Alfonso Cuarón has a Felini-like ability to choreograph a sequence and his long-takes were perfect for the documentary-feel that he and Emmanuel Lubezki actualized masterfully.

there’s something wonderful going on with Latin American cinema and i’m very glad to be able to experience it.

the dvd extras include a really great minidoc that’s also not to be missed.

definitely see this film. you’ll be glad you did.

it’s been about six years since i first saw this movie and i’ve been waiting patiently for it to get released on dvd. finally it’s come out and i got to watch it again (just a few hours ago).

simply incredible. still. so much symbolism. amazing light. a nearly perfect film.

also wonderful are (the dvd extras) the interviews with bertolucci and storaro and the scene which he cut (for length) for the u.s. release. two masters talking about a film some 36-odd years after having shot it.

there are a few films that revitalize my passion for filmmaking and this is (still) definitely one of them.

we are extremely pleased to announce that red letters and our amazing director of photography tanon
sattarujawong was awarded a craft award for best cinematography at the 2005 first run film festival!

congratulations non!

the generous people over at fujifilm have awarded me 20,000′ of 35mm motion picture film stock! the 8552 (250t) color negative film will definitely make all the difference in bringing red letters into existence.

in addition to the film stock award, crest national labs in los angeles has offered discounted processing for this film at an amazingly low rate!

many thanks to fuji film, crest national, and sandi sissel, asc for making this happen and for her and fuji’s support of student filmmakers everywhere.

this is just the start, but it’s a great one. i’m definitely looking forward to pre-production…