and bring down the number of stills to my 60-65 golden number.ĥ.

I go through the folder again (immediately)looking at the frames on large preview and try and remove frames that replicate a certain lighting style or framing. I’m then left with usually around 80-100 really interesting frames. I view all the frames as a slideshow and I remove any frame that there are doubles of (someone might be blinking in first frame and normal in second) or remove any that seem less interesting this time around.Ĥ.

So the next step is to edit, usually there might be a week or 2 between the first grab and this edit stage. This usually leaves me with around 200-250 frames per film.

Depending on mood I could spend a few hours just doing the grabbingģ. I watch through the movies on VLC, usually between 3x and 4x speed while listening to podcasts, grabbing any frame that interests me. i try to keep a mix of styles.genres/directors and DP’s so I dont get bored while working.Ģ. Make a to do pile, its a combination of recommendations, stuff Ive been enjoying myself, stuff I want to rewatch…. It’s a daring, impressive, bold and impassioned work that might provoke comparisons to Quentin Tarantino or Spike Lee, but Kassovitz can certainly stand on his own.Hi Arturo, Ive considered having a donate button, but I feel bad for asking for money, maybe I’ll post an amazon wishlist so people can contribute in that way sending me movies I want to feature on the site.ġ. Kassovitz frames the story in 24 frenetic hours, shoots with a handheld camera in grainy black-and-white, and cuts rapidly from scene to scene and shot to shot, using jarring intertitles to situate the audience. With a stolen cop’s gun and a bottomless well of hatred among them, they set about finding the policeman and teaching him a lesson. One of the most eagerly anticipated films of the festival, La Haine is a brutal, searing indictment of urban strife and police brutality seen through the eyes of a band of teens bent on violence.Īfter a 16-year-old boy is savagely beaten by the police, his housing project pals (Vincent Cassel, Hubert Kounde and Said Taghmaoui), fed up with police brutality, decide to take their revenge on the system. Ten years ago, aged 25, director Mathieu Kassovitz emerged with La Haine to become one of the most celebrated young filmmakers of recent years, his debut feature capturing the directing prize at Cannes.

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