SHODAN LIVES
Notes and links from @colemanm.

The Hurt Locker was a great film, and the NSFC thinks so, too.

They also gave best director to Kathryn Bigelow and best actor to Jeremy Renner.

The composer talks about working with Aronofsky, scoring Moon, and a little about his ideas for Aronofsky’s next picture, Black Swan:

“Well it’s all really embryonic at the moment, one of the main ideas we’ve got is building the entire score out of elements from Swan Lake. I mean it would have to be vastly screwed with, but that’s a starting point. Sometimes we’ve had ideas in the past and you put them into practice and they just suck, so we’ll see.”

I’m so happy that there are artists still pushing boundaries with creative ideas like this.

The New Yorker profiles James Cameron.

I love what the man has done for cinematic technique and process, but I don’t think he’s the God of Cinema that many would have you believe.

I love this movie.

Part of A House Next Door’s Pixar Week, Jonathan Pacheco finds similarities between Pixar’s Up and Miyazaki’s Howl’s Moving Castle:

“Many similarities between the two stick out to anyone with a pair of eyes. Each film features a spectacular traveling domicile that houses an old, old, protagonist. Beyond the protagonist, Up’s principal characters and their designs mirror Howl’s Moving Castle. Docter’s Russell the Eagle Scout resembles the magical disguise of Miyazaki’s Markl the boy wizard; the exotic bird Kevin takes her cues from the hopping scarecrow, Turnip; Dug the talking dog can easily be linked to Calcifer the fire demon, the nearly catatonic but strangely adorable Witch of the Waste, or, of course, the rasping dog that follows her.”