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Alain Resnais (June 3, 1922 - March 1, 2014)

Toute cette histoire est maintenant passée, elle s’achève. Quelques secondes encore, elle achève de se figer.

            — L'Année Dernière à Marienbad, 1961

Happy birthday to the entrancing Nastassja Kinski! Here is the actress with the late Harry Dean Stanton, director Wim Wenders, and a super-sized bottle of Moët & Chandon behind the scenes of Paris, Texas.

“Although for some people cinema means something superficial and glamorous, it is something else. I think it is the mirror of the world.”

The exceptional Jeanne Moreau, a film star who enlivened each of her roles with an intense and magnetic physicality, was born on this day in 1928.

“The beauty of ideas is that they are like waves in the ocean and they connect with things that came before them, and I think it is very important to embrace things that interest you and influence you, and incorporate them into what you do, as all artists have always done. The ones that say they don’t, are lying. Or are afraid that their work won’t be seen as being original, somehow.”

Happy birthday to one of cinema’s fiercest and most singular nonconformists, Jim Jarmusch, whose remarkable body of work has given us some of the screen’s most unforgettable characters!

First pic: Jeffrey Katzenberg & Michael Eisner; second pic: Ron Clements, Pete Young & Steve Hulett; third pic: Ron Clements, Jodi Benson & John Musker

Jeffrey Katzenberg and Michael Eisner were brought from Paramount to Disney in 1984, and they brought with them the concept of the “Gong Show.” At Paramount, they would hold pitch meetings in which everyone was given the opportunity to give ideas for future movie projects. The first Katzenberg and Eisner Gong Show at Disney was held in 1985. It was at this Gong Show that Ron Clements and John Musker first pitched two ideas that would eventually come to fruition: an adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid and Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island in space.

But the belle of the ball in this meeting was Pete Young, who pitched the idea of Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist except instead of human orphans, they would be cats and dogs. Back at Paramount, Katzenberg had wanted to do a contemporary version of the musical Oliver! (based on the same novel). Oliver & Company would go on to the be the first film from Walt Disney Animation Studios under the new management of Katzenberg and Eisner. Young worked on the story, but unfortunately, he passed away in October of that year at the age of 37.

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The continual advancement of #ai #robot #smarttech means for humanity to even survive, let alone be competitive, man must merge with machine.
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Dear fellow #filmmakers, please stop anthropomorphizing machines as servants/pets for humanity, reality is the other way around.
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Not #scifi.
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To us, #practicalfx will always be true #filmmaking, #moviemagic.
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To us, #practicalfx will always be true #filmmaking, #moviemagic.
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Repost Legacy Effects.
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#technology advancing so rapidly where real-time green screen is effortless. Why are the stories, structures, characters, messages all still the same?
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To us, #practicalfx will always be true #filmmaking, #moviemagic.
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…to boldly go where where no one has gone before. Is this what kickstarted society’s acceptance of inter-galatical-species relationships? How was this a respectable thing BEFORE human - #AI #robot love doll relationships??
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To us, #practicalfx will always be true #filmmaking, #moviemagic.
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#KCW #kcwstudios #alexwen #setlife #kcwtechnica #indiefilm #studiolife #filmmaker #producer #director #cameraoperator #bts #cameraporn #behindthescenes #onset #onlocation #mua #lingerie #makeupaddict #cinematography #magicofmovies