An Evening Illuminated

On his blog, AN EVENING ILLUMINATED, film bloggler Iain Stott posted positive reviews for The Mountain, The River and The Road and "Driving Around, Following Strangers." 

He recently conducted a survey of filmmakers and film writers to see how the Sight and Sound top 100 fares among a more diverse group of film lovers and asked me to participate.  After lots of back and forth and agony, I got through it, although you could spend a lifetime perfecting a list like this.

Read the survey DETAILS and check out the reworked canon and check out my RATINGS to see what you think.  Feel free to comment and tell me you disagree.

Also, I'm a little embarrassed to admit that I had to leave over 25% of the films listed as unrated because I either haven't seen or didn't bother to finish them.

New Website

In case you haven't already noticed, I finally got a semi-legit looking website up and running.  Now when you type in cardinalpictures.com you'll end up at the main site, which is easier on the eyes and makes more sense for someone visiting for the first time.

For those who don't like the extra clicks involved you can link right to the blog itself (welcometokernville.blogspot.com).

I made the website using iWeb, which let me do what I needed without too much trouble.  Getting it up through my host, Omnis, was a bit of a pain though (has anyone actually gotten the iWeb uploader to work with Omnis?) and since it seems like Apple is ditching iWeb anyway, I plan to look into a Wordpress webpage sometime in the future.

Don't hold your breath!

TECH - Cinema Tools R.I.P.

Just found out Lion and Mountain Lion don't support Cinema Tools anymore.  This is a bummer since I've been using it to convert 60fps footage to 24fps.  Some have had luck with a ProApps update, but not me (I'm still on FCS 2).

Found THIS WORKAROUND using compressor that might be helpful for anyone else who runs into this problem.  Good news is it removes a step from my usual process of using cinema tools to convert frame rate and using mpeg streamclip to transcode.  Downside is that it's supposedly slower. 

Not sure what to do if I have to deinterlace any old footage again...

Happy Halloween!

In addition to making movies, I also like venturing into other arts.  Lately that's meant mostly sculpture and model making usually for or based on movies.  In order to tie things together I thought I'd create a new page on the blog to showcase some of the cooler things I've made.  You can find it under "Other Work."  Since most of this stuff fits in the odd or horror category it seems appropriate to debut it at Halloween.

Go ahead and check it out, the first pic is from an original sculpture inspired by David Cronenberg's Videodrome, which also owes thanks to all the great effects work by Rick Baker.  Hope you get a kick out of it!

Click to see SCULPTURE AND OTHER ART...

MRR - Deleted Scenes - 07!

This is actually more of a shot than a scene.  When the Tercel broke down we shot a bunch of different ideas to make sure we were covered in editing.  The night footage ended up looking pretty great and that's the direction we went with.  This shot just didn't make sense in that context.

THE MOUNTAIN, THE RIVER AND THE ROAD is now on FANDOR!

Great news!  You can now see MRR on Fandor along with an insane amount of quality programing.  So excited to be part of this amazing service!

CHECK IT OUT NOW.

MRR - Deleted Scenes - Part 06!

Okay, this one's really more of an alternate take.  I won't say too much about it since it's a bit of a spoiler if you haven't seen the movie already (y'know you can fix that, just go to AMAZON or iTUNES).