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fromTechCrunch
1 day ago

Letterboxd, the social platform for film buffs, reportedly looking for new owner | TechCrunch

Letterboxd's popularity has surged, attracting millions of users, and its controlling investor is seeking potential buyers.
Independent films
fromwww.theguardian.com
5 days ago

The cinema lab: brain activity tracked to find secret to creating immersive films

Researchers at the University of Bristol study audience reactions to films using biometric data to improve filmmaking techniques.
#filmmaking
Photography
fromwww.nytimes.com
1 week ago

How Technology Has Transformed Cinematography

The MiniDV camera revolutionized filmmaking by enhancing accessibility and enabling a raw visual language, leading to significant industry shifts.
Film
fromABC7 Los Angeles
2 weeks ago

Beyond breaking news: local reporter follows his passion for film making

Sean Au emphasizes the emotional connection movies create between characters and audiences, inspiring his journey as a filmmaker.
Film
fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
6 days ago

FilmWatch Weekly: 'Mother Mary,' 'Fuze,' a Frederick Wiseman marathon, and more * Oregon ArtsWatch

Mother Mary explores the complex relationship between a pop icon and her costume designer amidst themes of fame, obsession, and emotional ambiguity.
NYC LGBT
fromNew York Post
1 week ago

Exclusive | BK's hottest movie night is at a century-old, Italian-American social club - and hipsters can't get enough

A 138-year-old Italian-American social club in Brooklyn hosts a popular film night, attracting diverse crowds with classic movies and homecooked meals.
fromArtnet News
2 weeks ago

Never-Before-Seen Stanley Kubrick Photos Debut in New York

Kubrick's films, from Dr. Strangelove to The Shining, offer proof of his ability to see people with all their quirks, a talent evident in his early photography.
Arts
Independent films
fromInsideHook
1 week ago

Did an Unexpected Culprit Hurt Modern Filmmaking?

American cinema faces a paradox of thriving box office revenues while struggling with the decline of mid-budget films and the impact of YouTube.
#georges-melies
Independent films
fromwww.npr.org
1 month ago

The first appearance of a robot on film has made its way to the Library of Congress

A lost 1897 Georges Melies film featuring an early robot character has been discovered in Michigan and acquired by the Library of Congress, representing the first robot science fiction story on film.
Independent films
fromwww.npr.org
1 month ago

The first appearance of a robot on film has made its way to the Library of Congress

A lost 1897 Georges Melies film featuring an early robot character has been discovered in Michigan and acquired by the Library of Congress, representing the first robot science fiction story on film.
Film
fromwww.businessinsider.com
1 week ago

Forget franchises: these 12 movies stole the show at CinemaCon

CinemaCon showcases both franchise and non-franchise films, highlighting the excitement for original storytelling in cinema.
London food
fromTime Out London
3 weeks ago

South London has a new art and short film festival - and it's free

A free artist-led festival in Peckham from May 8-10 features exhibitions, panel talks, and complimentary food and drinks.
fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
3 weeks ago

A Portland Panorama of indie films * Oregon ArtsWatch

On May 2, 2025, arts and cultural organizations across the country received notifications that grants and funding promised by the National Endowment for the Arts were being rescinded. This was part of a larger initiative by the Trump Administration to dismantle not just the NEA, but also other arts advocacy programs including the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Institute for Museum and Library Services.
Portland
fromAnOther
1 week ago

Five Groundbreaking Dream Sequences From Silent Cinema

Film is like that. It developed from [the silent era] into Fellini and Bergman, Buñuel and David Lynch. [They] took these ideas and created a film that was really like a dream.
Film
Television
fromKotaku
3 weeks ago

My Favorite Way To Watch Classic VHS Movies Is In Retro Rewind

Retro Rewind allows players to customize in-game TVs with their own video files, enhancing the nostalgic rental store experience.
#film-festival
Independent films
fromFilmmaker Magazine
2 weeks ago

"Personal Storytelling, Experimentation, and a DIY Spirit": A Look Inside LAFM 2026

This year's festival showcases debut features emphasizing personal storytelling and experimentation from both international and local filmmakers.
Film
fromInverse
2 weeks ago

10 Years Ago, A Controversial Action Thriller Tried - And Failed - To Reinvent Cinema As We Know It

Hardcore Henry innovates first-person cinema by combining action with video game mechanics, creating a unique viewing experience.
Independent films
fromIndieWire
3 weeks ago

Brands Won't Save Indie Film: They're Changing It

Independent filmmakers face financing challenges while brands are shifting towards storytelling, but brands won't fill the financing gap for traditional filmmaking.
#new-directorsnew-films
fromThe New Yorker
3 weeks ago
Independent films

New Directors, New Films

The New Directors/New Films series showcases diverse films with innovative narratives, including 'Variations on a Theme' and 'Next Life'.
fromFilmmaker Magazine
4 weeks ago
Independent films

Exclusive Clip: Roseanne Pel on Her New Directors/New Films Closing Night Title Donkey Days

The 55th New Directors/New Films festival showcases rising talent from April 8-19, featuring diverse films including Leviticus and Donkey Days.
Independent films
fromFilmmaker Magazine
4 weeks ago

Exclusive Clip: Roseanne Pel on Her New Directors/New Films Closing Night Title Donkey Days

The 55th New Directors/New Films festival showcases rising talent from April 8-19, featuring diverse films including Leviticus and Donkey Days.
fromAnOther
3 weeks ago

Films to See This April

Emma drops an absolute bombshell in the midst of a game where they're asked to reveal the worst thing they've ever done. Soon everyone around her starts to question how well they really know her.
Film
Mobile UX
fromGSMArena.com
1 month ago

Honor partners with legendary video camera maker ARRI

Honor and ARRI partnered to bring cinema-grade video recording capabilities to smartphones, enabling professional-quality mobile capture with authentic cinematic aesthetics.
LA real estate
fromLos Angeles Times
18 years ago

A DeMille classic, restored

Cecil B. DeMille's historic Laughlin Park estate, featuring connected Beaux Arts mansions including the former Chaplin House, is listed for $26.25 million after comprehensive 2001 renovation.
Film
fromVulture
1 month ago

How Many Cinephiles Does It Take to Win a Soccer Match?

The first-ever Cinema Showdown in NYC combined soccer with film promotion, attracting cinephiles and fans for a unique event featuring custom jerseys.
fromConde Nast Traveler
1 month ago

Where to See a Movie in Los Angeles, the Heart of American Cinema

Los Angeles is home to more than a dozen one-of-a-kind cinemas that operate on their own terms. Some of these theaters have been around for 100 years, and in classic LA fashion some of them are owned by living LA legends-think Quentin Tarantino and Kyle Ng. Kristen Stewart recently announced she's also jumping into the mix with her purchase of Los Angeles's Highland Theatre.
Los Angeles
Miscellaneous
fromVariety
1 month ago

Oscilloscope Buys Robert Petit's 'Underland' Documentary, Narrated by Sandra Huller and Produced by Darren Aronofsky (EXCLUSIVE)

Oscilloscope Laboratories acquired North American rights to the documentary 'Underland,' directed by Robert Petit, premiering at Tribeca 2025 with theatrical release planned for 2026.
US politics
fromWIRED
2 months ago

How to Film ICE

Filming federal immigration agents is legal but can provoke dangerous, even lethal, responses; video both documents abuses and can place observers at risk.
Bicycling
fromBikeMag
2 months ago

Made By Mountains: A Riding Film Worth Waiting For

Made By Mountains presents mountains as active forces that shape identity, community, perspective, and lifelong meaning through immersive, visual mountain-riding storytelling.
Photography
fromThe New Yorker
1 month ago

Films Are Fantasies. Here Are Their Realities.

Atsushi Nishijima, an on-set stills photographer, has documented major films over the past decade and a half, capturing candid moments between takes on sets directed by prominent filmmakers.
fromThe Verge
2 months ago

There's a tiny digital camera inside these retro 35mm film rolls

Following the popularity of the Kodak Charmera, it was inevitable that other retro-inspired digital toy cameras would start popping up. While the Charmera's design was inspired by the '80s single-use Kodak Fling camera, the OPT100 Neo Film crams a basic digital camera into a 35mm film roll that comes inside a plastic canister and a small box with a matching aesthetic.
Gadgets
US politics
fromFilmmaker Magazine
2 months ago

How Phone-Camera Verite Defeated Action-Flick Propaganda in the War to Define Minneapolis

Minneapolis residents document and resist an ongoing heavy ICE presence, using cellphone videos to expose operations while daily life and businesses are disrupted.
fromIndieWire
1 month ago

Thierry Fremaux on Why 'Today, We Never Trust Images We See' - but We Can Trust the Lumiere Brothers and 'Apocalypse Now'

The invention of the Cinématographe was ready right away. The process of the invention was longer, and there were a lot of inventors before Lumière.
Independent films
Independent films
fromGothamist
1 month ago

It's Art House Cinema Week in NYC, and tickets are free

New York's first Art House Cinema Week runs March 20-26, offering discounts and free tickets at 30+ independent theaters to support small businesses and the film industry.
Gadgets
fromYanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
1 month ago

EZCast Just Turned Every Phone Into a Professional Camera Monitor - Yanko Design

EZCast's CamCast CT-1 is a compact wireless HDMI transmitter that streams 1080p 60fps video to up to four iOS or Android devices simultaneously over 5GHz Wi-Fi, bridging the gap between basic camera monitoring and expensive professional systems.
Independent films
fromIndieWire
1 month ago

Indie Film Has an Architecture Problem

The indie film model is structurally designed to fail, with misaligned incentives between investors, filmmakers, distributors, and audiences, resulting in only 0.025% of screenplays achieving profitable theatrical outcomes.
Photography
fromWIRED
1 month ago

Turn the Dial Through the Decades on Fujifilm's Retro-Inspired Instax Evo Cinema Camera

A compact instant camera with a 5-MP sensor, microSD card support, 28mm f/2.0 lens, and up to 15-second video recording capability, suitable for Instax prints and social media but limited for larger prints.
fromIndieWire
1 month ago

Meet the Punk-Rock Projectionist Showing His Own Films in a Tiny Theater on Wheels

It's so pure. People talk a lot about the cinematic experience, going into a big theater and sharing it with a lot of people. That's important. But when you distill that into its tiniest form, when you make the screen as small as it can be and fit as many seats as possible, it still works. At least for Davey. That feeling doesn't go away.
Film
Independent films
fromwww.amny.com
1 month ago

Coney Island Film School to host first-ever student film festival this weekend in Brooklyn | amNewYork

The Coney Island Film School's inaugural student film festival showcases diverse experimental films from students of varying experience levels, led by filmmaker Dylan Mars Greenberg.
Photography
fromFilmmaker Magazine
2 months ago

Review: The New Nikon ZR Shoots RED RAW Footage on a Budget

The Nikon ZR is an affordable full-frame cinema camera that records 12-bit REDCODE RAW internally up to 6K/60fps, with a bright 4-inch screen and 7.5-stop IBIS.
Independent films
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Like a DVD in the present tense': are we ready for film distribution via USB drives?

Video StoreAge offers indie films on USB drives as a middle ground between corporate streaming rentals and expensive physical media, combining ownership with digital convenience.
Film
fromEsquire
1 month ago

Do Original Movies Have Any Hope Left? I Went on a Journey to Find Out.

Theaters must create unique event experiences to compete with home entertainment, driving elaborate marketing stunts and premium screen innovations.
Film
fromIndieWire
2 months ago

'Train Dreams' Cinematographer Adolpho Veloso Explains Why Digital Cameras Were the Key to Period Accuracy

Train Dreams presents a meticulously crafted, immersive period character study whose natural, low-light cinematography by Adolpho Veloso creates timeless authenticity and visceral emotional depth.
Film
fromConde Nast Traveler
2 months ago

Where Was 'The History of Sound' Filmed?

A music-driven love story follows Lionel and David across global locations, exploring memory, grief, and the practical filmmaking challenges of location and tax incentives.
Film
fromThe Atlantic
2 months ago

The Real Secret to a Filmmaker's Success

Coppola, Lucas, and Spielberg in the 1970s combined artistic daring with commercial ambition, reshaping Hollywood through auteurism and blockbuster filmmaking.
Independent films
fromTheregister
1 month ago

Retro tech fan views LaserDisc movie data with a microscope

A digital microscope can reveal analog video data encoded on LaserDiscs through pit patterns, allowing visualization of content like film credits.
Film
fromwww.bbc.com
2 months ago

Wheelchair camera 'is milestone for disabled film-makers'

A patented wheelchair-mounted Steadicam system enables wheelchair users to operate professional camera rigs, improving accessibility and production value in film and broadcast.
Film
from48 hills
2 months ago

Screen Grabs: All eyes on IndieFest and Mostly British's big cinematic ideas - 48 hills

Two long-running Bay Area festivals, SF IndieFest and Mostly British Film Festival, reopen with locally focused, daring films including documentaries on Santacon and Dennis Peron.
Independent films
fromInverse
1 month ago

129 Years Later, The First-Ever Sci-Fi Film Has Finally Been Found

The Library of Congress restored Georges Méliès's lost 1897 film Gugusse and the Automaton, featuring what may be cinema's first robot and earliest on-screen warning about technology dangers.
fromThe Verge
2 months ago

Do you believe in magic?

Through the tiny window of short clips on Instagram and TikTok, Mary's world seems enchanting and vast. Bree's work exudes melancholic emotion and ethereal femininity, painting the surfaces of Mary's world in the vibrating style of stop-motion animation, dappled with sparkling light and computer-generated surfaces so convincing it feels like you could pose the model with your own hands. O'Donnell sat down with us to talk a bit about her process creating textures and her life's work making magic real.
Film
Film
fromIndieWire
2 months ago

IndieWire's 101 Guide to Working with Hollywood Unions - What Do Indie Filmmakers Need to Know?

Entertainment unions shape working conditions, preserve institutional knowledge, and explain production delays and shifting economics across film, television, and digital content.
Film
fromThe New Yorker
1 month ago

The Future of Horror Movies Is on YouTube

YouTube has become a primary platform for discovering emerging horror filmmakers who transition from short-form content to feature films with studio backing.
Film
fromThe New Yorker
2 months ago

Nonprofessional Actors Are the Heart of the Movies

This year's Oscar contenders feature nonprofessional actors alongside established performers, creating authentic performances that distinguish these films in the new casting achievement category.
Film
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Frederick Wiseman, prolific documentary film-maker, dies aged 96

Frederick Wiseman, a pioneering documentary filmmaker, created nearly 50 observational films exploring public institutions with naturalistic technique and intensive editing.
Film
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

The Guide #229: How an indie movie distributed by a lone gamer broke the US box office

Two unusual releases contrasted a costly, widely distributed first-lady documentary with a self-financed YouTuber-made indie horror that achieved notable box-office success.
Film
fromwww.mercurynews.com
2 months ago

Pillion' stars, director enjoyed their walk on the wild side

Pillion centers a gay dom–sub love story that celebrates leather community visibility, sparking enthusiastic, costumed screenings and earning strong critical acclaim.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Displacement Film Fund review Cate Blanchett masterminds short film collection that brims with life and intensity

With considerable chutzpah and elan, and in her capacity as producer and UNHCR Goodwill ambassador, Cate Blanchett has achieved a geopolitical film-making coup. In concert with festival authorities in Rotterdam, she has secured cash and commissioned short films on the subject of displacement from five directors including Mohammad Rasoulof, now in exile from his native Iran due to his pro-democracy activism, in effect making his first public statement since the recent massacres and apparently expressing his fears that he may never go home again.
Film
Film
fromFilmmaker Magazine
2 months ago

"I Feel Like It's Very Sacred, What Happens Between the Camera and You": Samantha Smart, Back To One, Episode 380

Charliebird, written, produced, and led by Samantha Smart, won the 2025 Tribeca top prize and stars Gabriela Ochoa Perez as Charlie.
Film
fromQueerty
2 months ago

A raunchy new Gregg Araki comedy just dropped & it's the perfect excuse to rewatch his other queer classic - Queerty

Gregg Araki's I Want Your Sex secured theatrical distribution and one of his acclaimed films will receive a restored re-release.
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