- -: Filmmaker Wes Anderson: How 'Bottle Rocket' Bombed
May 21, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/11/09/Fantastic_Mr_Fox_Wes_Anderson_at_the_NYPL Filmmaker Wes Anderson recalls the initial test screening of his now cult classic "Bottle Rocket." Every review card from the audience read negative, save for one, and it looked like an "outline of a dissertat...
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- -: Mickey's Wrinkles: How Disney Animates Facial Expressions
July 2, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/06/17/Disney_Research_Zurich_Not_Your_Fathers_Mickey Markus Gross, Director of Disney Research Zurich, demonstrates the new technology Disney is using to animate the intricacies of facial expressions. The slightest deviation from natural-looking facial moti...
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- -: Violet Blue: Has Mass Media Changed Sexual Fantasy?
November 11, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/10/16/Long_Conversation_with_Robin_Sloan_and_Violet_Blue How has the mass production of images and video affected the nature and significance of sexual fantasy? Sex blogger Violet Blue argues that sex has always been highly visual, suggesting that the proli...
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- -: 'Star Wars' and Bad Science In Movies - Science Comedian Brian Malow
December 10, 2010 (over 13 years ago)More Wonderfest videos available at: http://fora.tv/partner/Wonderfest Science comedian Brian Malow cites an example from the original 'Star Wars' to riff on the poor science often on display in sci-fi movies. ----- Brian Malow's YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/sciencecomedian Brian M...
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- -: In Hollywood, "Green" Still Means White
February 15, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/11/29/Bridging_the_Middle_East_and_America_Through_Culture Muslim-American writer Wajahat Ali discusses the uphill battle minority filmmakers often face when funding projects through Hollywood studios. As an example, Ali relates one producer's unintentional...
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- -: John Malkovich: The Dynamics of Screen and Stage
March 23, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/01/17/John_Malkovich_in_Conversation_with_Jim_Sharman Stage and screen actor John Malkovich describes the inherent differences he has discovered between acting for film and theatre. "Theatre is an ephemeral, living organism," says Malkovich. "Film is not." ...
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- -: Netflix CEO Predicts Gigabit to the Home by 2021
May 13, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Complete Premium video at: Complete Premium video at: http://fora.tv/conference/wired_business_conference_2011 Netflix CEO Reed Hastings discusses how the company has been focused on streaming video via the Internet since its beginnings, but "the network wasn't big enough." Now he predicts gigab...
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- -: What Makes a Good Film Adaptation?
October 14, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/conference/new_yorker_festival_2011 Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jeffrey Eugenides discusses the process of adapting a book into a film. A book "radically changes once it becomes visual. It's no longer a book, and to try to insist on it being a book will usua...
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- -: A Diet of Masterpieces Makes You Fat: The Virtues of Bad Art
October 18, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/conference/new_yorker_festival_2011 New Yorker art critic Peter Schjeldahl sits down with Steve Martin to discuss the merits of bad art. "You learn from good art that you can't do it," Schjeldahl says, "and from bad art you see where it breaks." ----- The New ...
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Paul : The Life of Sidney Poitier
December 8, 1993 (over 30 years ago)Paul (Will Smith) delivers a well rehearsed and factual speech about the life of Sidney Poitier in the film, Six Degrees of Separation.
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