Archives for the ‘Hollywood’ Category

Ang Lee on Life Of Pi

By • Nov 20th, 2012 • Category: Entertainment, Featured, Hollywood, India, People, South Asian Actors
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Academy award winner Ang Lee talks about his new film Life of Pi that is based on a novel by  best selling author Yann Martel. This is Lee’s first major foray into 3D filmmaking. The film traces a the story of Piscine Militor Patel (Pi) and a tiger called Richard Parker. Trapped in a small white [...]



End of Watch’s Michael Pena & Nataline Martinez

By • Sep 21st, 2012 • Category: Entertainment, Featured, Hollywood, People, San Francisco/Silicon Valley
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Director David Ayer of Fast and Furious fame has a new film out – End of Watch. This unusual cop film revolves Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Pena and their police beat in Newton, a gritty part of Los Angeles.  Behind that police badge beats a heart just like yours is part of the opening dialog [...]



Academy Winner John Knoll on Technology in Filmmaking

By • Mar 27th, 2012 • Category: Entertainment, Featured, Hollywood, Ideas, San Francisco/Silicon Valley, Video
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Academy-award winner John Knoll works behind the scenes, but you have probably seen his visual effects magic in “Avatar,” “Rango,” “Pirates of the Caribbean,” “Hugo,” Mission Impossible,” “Star Wars”  and many other films. Knoll is a visual effects supervisor at Industrial Light and Magic and in 2007 won an Academy award for Best Visual Effects [...]



Walter Murch on Technology, Editing & Filmmaking

By • Feb 26th, 2012 • Category: Books and Authors, Business & Tech, Entertainment, Featured, Hollywood, Ideas, San Francisco/Silicon Valley
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Meet  3 time Oscar-winning editor and sound engineer Walter Murch, who talks on how technology has changed film editing and how “digital revolution has invented the equivalent of aensthetic for the cinema.” Mr. Murch points out before the digital revolution film editors were “physically cutting through the substance of film.” Mr. Murch started his career [...]