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5 Hollywood Secrets That Explain Why So Many Movies Suck

Interesting article over at ONTD about why cinema is in such an abysmal state

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Career Planning

This has actually been more helpful then any of my academic advisers. Apparently I`m meant to be a bounty hunter



Totally stolen from Nerdbastards.com

The real nominees are in

Glad to see that these nominations haven't been bought, unlike the globes. Solid group of nominees, especially in the female driven roles. The best actors categories were a joke at the Globes, glad to see that this list makes a bit more sense! This list also intensifies my need to see Winter's Bone. I LOVE John Hawkes and I just realized he's in it. Must see! Other then that the only Oscar contenders that I haven't seen that I would like to are The King's Speech, The Kids are Alright and 127 Hours. Usually I do much worse.

Best Motion Picture Of The Year
- Black Swan (Fox Searchlight)
- The Fighter (Paramount)
- Inception (Warner Bros.)
- The Kids Are All Right (Focus Features)
- The King's Speech (The Weinstein Company)
- 127 Hours (Fox Searchlight)
- The Social Network (Sony Pictures Releasing)
- Toy Story 3 (Walt Disney)
- True Grit (Paramount)
- Winter's Bone (Roadside Attractions)

Performance by an actor in a leading role
- Javier Bardem in "Biutiful" (Roadside Attractions)
- Jeff Bridges in "True Grit" (Paramount)
- Jesse Eisenberg in "The Social Network" (Sony Pictures Releasing)
- Colin Firth in "The King's Speech" (The Weinstein Company)
- James Franco in "127 Hours" (Fox Searchlight)

Performance by an actor in a supporting role
- Christian Bale in "The Fighter" (Paramount)
- John Hawkes in "Winter's Bone" (Roadside Attractions)
- Jeremy Renner in "The Town" (Warner Bros.)
- Mark Ruffalo in "The Kids Are All Right" (Focus Features)
- Geoffrey Rush in "The King's Speech" (The Weinstein Company)

Performance by an actress in a leading role
- Annette Bening in "The Kids Are All Right" (Focus Features)
- Nicole Kidman in "Rabbit Hole" (Lionsgate)
- Jennifer Lawrence in "Winter's Bone" (Roadside Attractions)
- Natalie Portman in "Black Swan" (Fox Searchlight)
- Michelle Williams in "Blue Valentine" (The Weinstein Company)

Performance by an actress in a supporting role
- Amy Adams in "The Fighter" (Paramount)
- Helena Bonham Carter in "The King's Speech" (The Weinstein Company)
- Melissa Leo in "The Fighter" (Paramount)
- Hailee Steinfeld in "True Grit" (Paramount)
- Jacki Weaver in "Animal Kingdom" (Sony Pictures Classics)

Best animated feature film of the year
- How to Train Your Dragon (Paramount) Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois
- The Illusionist (Sony Pictures Classics) Sylvain Chomet
- Toy Story 3 (Walt Disney) Lee Unkrich

Art Direction
- Alice in Wonderland (Walt Disney), Robert Stromberg (Production Design), Karen O'Hara (Set Decoration)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 (Warner Bros.), Stuart Craig (Production Design), Stephenie McMillan (Set Decoration)
- Inception (Warner Bros.), Guy Hendrix Dyas (Production Design), Larry Dias and Doug Mowat (Set Decoration)/span>
- The King's Speech (Paramount), Eve Stewart (Production Design), Judy Farr (Set Decoration)
- True Grit (Paramount), Jess Gonchor (Production Design), Nancy Haigh (Set Decoration)

Achievement in Cinematography
- Black Swan (Fox Searchlight) Matthew Libatique
- Inception (Warner Bros.) Wally Pfister
- The King's Speech (The Weinstein Company) Danny Cohen
- The Social Network (Sony Pictures Releasing) Jeff Cronenweth
- True Grit (Paramount) Roger Deakins

Achievement in costume design
- Alice in Wonderland (Walt Disney) Colleen Atwood
- I Am Love (Magnolia Pictures) Antonella Cannarozzi
- The King's Speech (The Weinstein Company) Jenny Beavan
- The Tempest (Miramax) Sandy Powell
- True Grit (Paramount) Mary Zophres

Achievement in directing
- Black Swan (Fox Searchlight), Darren Aronofsky
- The Fighter (Paramount), David O. Russell
- The King's Speech (The Weinstein Company), Tom Hooper
- The Social Network (Sony Pictures Releasing), David Fincher
- True Grit (Paramount), Joel Coen and Ethan Coen

Best Documentary Feature
- Exit through the Gift Shop (Producers Distribution Agency)
- Inside Job (Sony Pictures Classics)
- Restrepo (National Geographic Entertainment)
- Waste Land Lucy Walker and Angus Aynsley (Arthouse Films)

Best documentary short subject
- Killing in the Name Nominees to be determined A Moxie Firecracker Films Production
- Poster Girl Nominees to be determined A Portrayal Films Production
- Strangers No More Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon A Simon & Goodman Picture Company Production
- Sun Come Up Jennifer Redfearn and Tim Metzger A Sun Come Up Production
- The Warriors of Qiugang Ruby Yang and Thomas Lennon A Thomas Lennon Films Production

Achievement in film editing
- Black Swan (Fox Searchlight) Andrew Weisblum
- The Fighter Paramount Pamela Martin
- The King's Speech (The Weinstein Company) Tariq Anwar
- 127 Hours (Fox Searchlight) Jon Harris
- The Social Network (Sony Pictures Releasing) Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter

Best foreign language film of the year
- Biutiful Mexico
- Dogtooth Greece
- In a Better World Denmark
- Incendies Canada
- Outside the Law (Hors-la-loi) Algeria

Achievement in makeup
- Achievement in makeup (Sony Pictures Classics) Adrien Morot
- The Way Back (Newmarket Films in association with Wrekin Hill Entertainment and Image Entertainment) Edouard F. Henriques, Gregory Funk and Yolanda Toussieng
- The Wolfman (Universal) Rick Baker and Dave Elsey

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)
- How to Train Your Dragon (Paramount) John Powell
- Inception (Warner Bros.) Hans Zimmer
- The King's Speech (The Weinstein Company) Alexandre Desplat
- 127 Hours (Fox Searchlight) A.R. Rahman
- The Social Network (Sony Pictures Releasing) Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)
- Coming Home from Country Strong (Sony Pictures Releasing (Screen Gems)) Music and Lyric by Tom Douglas, Troy Verges and Hillary Lindsey
- I See the Light from Tangled (Walt Disney) Music by Alan Menken Lyric by Glenn Slater
- If I Rise from 127 Hours (Fox Searchlight) Music by A.R. Rahman Lyric by Dido and Rollo Armstrong
- We Belong Together from Toy Story 3 (Walt Disney) Music and Lyric by Randy Newman

Best animated short film
- Day & Night (Walt Disney) A Pixar Animation Studios Production Teddy Newton
- The Gruffalo A Magic Light Pictures Production Jakob Schuh and Max Lang
- Let's Pollute A Geefwee Boedoe Production Geefwee Boedoe
- The Lost Thing (Nick Batzias for Madman Entertainment) A Passion Pictures Australia Production Shaun Tan and Andrew Ruhemann
- Madagascar, carnet de voyage (Madagascar, a Journey Diary) A Sacrebleu Production Bastien Dubois

Best live action short film
- The Confession (National Film and Television School) A National Film and Television School Production Tanel Toom
- The Crush (Network Ireland Television) A Purdy Pictures Production Michael Creagh
- God of Love A Luke Matheny Production Luke Matheny
- Na Wewe (Premium Films) A CUT! Production Ivan Goldschmidt
- Wish 143 A Swing and Shift Films/Union Pictures Production Ian Barnes and Samantha Waite

Achievement in sound editing
- Inception (Warner Bros.) Richard King
- Toy Story 3 (Walt Disney) Tom Myers and Michael Silvers
- Tron: Legacy (Walt Disney) Gwendolyn Yates Whittle and Addison Teague
- True Grit (Paramount) Skip Lievsay and Craig Berkey
- Unstoppable (20th Century Fox) Mark P. Stoeckinger

Achievement in sound mixing
- Inception (Warner Bros.) Lora Hirschberg, Gary A. Rizzo and Ed Novick
- The King's Speech (The Weinstein Company) Paul Hamblin, Martin Jensen and John Midgley
- Salt (Sony Pictures Releasing) Jeffrey J. Haboush, Greg P. Russell, Scott Millan and William Sarokin
- The Social Network (Sony Pictures Releasing) Ren Klyce, David Parker, Michael Semanick and Mark Weingarten
- True Grit (Paramount) Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff and Peter F. Kurland

Achievement in visual effects
- Alice in Wonderland (Walt Disney) Ken Ralston, David Schaub, Carey Villegas and Sean Phillips
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 (Warner Bros.) Tim Burke, John Richardson, Christian Manz and Nicolas Aithadi
- Hereafter (Warner Bros.) Michael Owens, Bryan Grill, Stephan Trojanski and Joe Farrell
- Inception (Warner Bros.) Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley and Peter Bebb
- Iron Man 2 (Paramount and Marvel Entertainment, Distributed by Paramount) Janek Sirrs, Ben Snow, Ged Wright and Daniel Sudick

Adapted screenplay
- 127 Hours (Fox Searchlight), Screenplay by Danny Boyle & Simon Beaufoy
- The Social Network (Sony Pictures Releasing), Screenplay by Aaron Sorkin
- Toy Story 3 (Walt Disney), Screenplay by Michael Arndt. Story by John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich
- True Grit (Paramount), Written for the screen by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
- Winter's Bone (Roadside Attractions), Adapted for the screen by Debra Granik & Anne Rosellini

Original screenplay
- Another Year (Sony Pictures Classics), Written by Mike Leigh
- The Fighter (Paramount), Screenplay by Scott Silver and Paul Tamasy & Eric Johnson. Story by Keith Dorrington & Paul Tamasy & Eric Johnson
- Inception (Warner Bros.), Written by Christopher Nolan
- The Kids Are All Right (Focus Features), Written by Lisa Cholodenko & Stuart Blumberg
- The King's Speech (The Weinstein Company), Screenplay by David Seidler

And on the first day...

Residents of Beebe woke up New Years day to find hundreds of dead blackbirds littering the streets of their town. Last year there were floods and this year dead black birds. Authorizes think it's high altitude weather conditions (have I been watching too much X-Files or does that just reek of cover up?) io9 thinks it's Romulan War birds. Personally I'm going to stick with the classics; all out apocalypse.


via CNN and The Occultist

Mistletoe and Mind Control

The lovely folks over @ io9 posted this juicy tibit!

All this makes me think of is fringe and that David Cronenberg episode of Alias where he doses everybody and eats fakeon.





I can't decide what the best part is, the retro credits, the retro ads, or the subject matter itself.

This is required holiday viewing my friends! Hit the comments below.

Check it out ad hit the comments below!

Vampire Sluts

I find this rather hilarious and on the nose! I read Dracula last semester for my Vampires and Popular Culture Class and we discussed this at length. Vampirism and it's evolving metaphors.

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Shameless Reblog!

If anyone ever wonders where my font and billboard obesssion comes from, blame this man! Congrats to Matt Soar on the sucessful endevor, gotta head over to CJ and check this out

Click for the full article! @ the Montreal Mirror

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Greatest Influences

Had to do this for one of my classes, thought I'd share.


1. STAR WARS: A NEW HOPE - Watching this at 13 years old my first thought was "I want to be a Jedi". My second thought was "I want to be the person who made this and who made me want to be a jedi"
2. BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER (TV) - This show came to me at a time of transition in my life and it changed me. It also introduced me to my second greatest influence Joss Whedon.
3. The Matrix - Epic, crazy use of Christian and Gnostic myths, awesome VFX.
4. Dogfight - The only romantic drama I like. Made me relate so heavily to the main character. Still makes me cry.
5. The Breakfast Club - First film I saw to rely so heavily on characters and dialogue.
6. Juno - I wish I was this funny all the time.
7. Firefly (TV) - Favorite television show of all time. SPACE WESTERN enough said...
8. Alias (TV) - First television show I watched religiously
9. M*A*S*H - The best of comedic television.
10. Rent - Changed my mind about musicals and the 80's. seeing it on Broadway reinforced this.

Bitch Goddess

I hereby declare my status as a feminist. I've just watched the longest string of male chauvinistic, patriarchal, racist, heteronormative crap and I HATE IT. Fuck em!
Why are women given roles that amount to either prostitute or mother? Where are all the strong women? Maybe I should watch something made after 1973... Not sure it would do much good.

"There is no end to the problems I can solve on my back.."

That's a small snippet from the new Screenplay I'm writting. it's a piolt for a dramedy called [trash]. It's the story about a family living in a trailer park. Hopefully it will make for funny stuff. So far I'm on my 15th page and I need to have 20pages by tomorrow morning. I brave through and power forward!

I Was A Teenage Feminist

I was a teenage feminist from Rachelle Hamilton on Vimeo.

Found footage exercise edited on a Steenbeck.. So what this basically means is that we went through the old film library, canabalized the old reels, and hand cut and taped eveything together on one of these babies

We then did the same thing with the sound track and VOILA! A film collage! Because these things could only be shown on projecttor we had the whole thing digitalized and it is now available for you viewing pleasure!

Enjoy!

Oh also this was done during my feminist phase! good times!

Tough Love Tuesday

NEED TO FINISH THIS MIDTERM!
OMFG I cannot wait until the 2nd. I'll finally be moved, done my midterm and back to my regularly scheduled programming!

Also fun fact, tomorrow is Canada day, do yourself a favor and watch One Week. Lovely poignant film about a dying man and his trek across Canada... No not Terry

On a lighter note...

I forgot to mention, the bank has stopped playing slum lords with my money (actually no they haven't I've just been moving money around them) and I was finally able to get my new computer.. its shiny

Make Me A Lady

My Film

Make Me A Lady from Rachelle Hamilton on Vimeo.

My final 16mm Bolex final in partnership with Andrea Elalouf and Dauphine Productions

Documentary's You Should See

So I've just finished my semester, having taken this wonderful documnetary film class and I thought I'm share the high lights.

Gimme Shelter (1970): This film by the Maysles brothers, is about the Rolling Stones, and the time leading up to the contropversial concert they played at Atltamont stadium which resulted in the death of one of the concert goers at the hands of the Hells Angels, who the band had hired as security. Now alot is missing from this film, for example you never see any of them do drugs, drink or have sex, which lets be honest, is most of what they were doing at the time, but the heart of the films lies In the scenes where Zwerin (the films editor) is showing the band the footage of the concert. Also Tina Turner makes the sexiest cameo EVER!

Following Sean (2005): A follow up to a student film he made entitled Sean, director Ralph Arlyck uses following Sean as a way to catch up with the young boy he knew so long ago, as well as a way to talk about his own life and the experiences they share. More autobiographical then you would expect, but you can't help but be pulled in by the simple lives of these two men and the film that they first made. Try to watch Sean as well as Folowing Sean.

Wrestling With Shadows (1998): Directed by Paul Jay Wrestling with Shadows chronicles the last year of Brett "The Hitman" Hearts last year in the WWF (later the WWE) especially the months leading up to the infamous "Montreal Screwjob". Arguably not the most well made documentary, but extermly entertaining, considering the built in story line and the complexity of Hearts character.

Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer (2003): Life and Death of a Seiral Killer is the second film Nick Broomfield did about famed female serial killer Aileen Wournos, the first being about her trial, and this the second on, about her execution. It is completly impossible to watch this film and not feel a huge amount of sympathy for Wournos. Broomfield, who clearly has a complexe relationship with Wournos (he is one of the only people that she will to see her, and the only one allowed to interview her) plays a large part in the development of the film, and becomes integral to the attempts to stay her execution. A much different portrait of Wournos then Hollywoods Monster.

Touching the Void (2003): Kevin Macdonalds film about one of the most extraordinary climbing experiences of all time, does what no film I've ever seen has ever done: managed to make dramatic recreations completly engaging and compelling. This is one of those movies where you know the ending, yet the you are on the edge of your seat the entire time. The film is the retelling of two mens attempt to climb Siula Grande when one of the men gets injured. The sound for this film is amazing, and I defy anyone not to feel every excuritating second of this film.

So those were some of my favorites! Enjoy!

Postcards from Rehab!

So it's day six of not having a computer, I've moved from vomiting ever hour to just having the worst case of the shakes and an intense craving for chocolate. I wonder if they have rehab for techno addicts? Speaking of techno addicts I was fortunate enough this week to be able to attend the Concordia Presidents Day Conference . I was invited to participate in the afternoon conference on "The Addictive Network" featuring talks by Drs. Bart Simon and Bill Bukowski. Dr Bukowski mostly ended up talking about friendship ad the web while Dr. Simon focused largely on online gaming. It was a super interesting day and I was extremely happy to be a part of it. The part on addiction was weird, cause as much as I love technology I've realized I can survive better then I thought without it.

I haven't tried to turn on my computer in 6 days just because I want to make absolutely sure that it is dry before I do in hopes that it will turn back on. I honestly don't think it will but hey, it doesn't hurt to try!

Bahaha! and I just realized if you scroll to like 4/5's of the way through that video you can actually see/hear me making a comment!