RIP Don LaFontaine 


Don LaFontaine, the man who MADE movie trailers, passed away on Monday. I can’t image trailers will ever be the same :(

 
 
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Wednesday, September 3 2008
 
Film General, Filmmaking
 

Video Converters: The Best of the Bunch 

Video Converters
When it comes to video converters, there’s a plethora of options out there and many of them don’t cut the mustard. It’s also incredibly difficult to find a decent listing of programs that actually do what you want. If you type a search for ‘video converters’ on Google, you are going find so many commercial products that typically don’t deliver when you need them to. More specifically, if you want to rip a DVD or segments of a DVD into various formats (.mov, .mp4, .wmv, .flv, .avi, etc…) you would be surprised how many video converters fail to do this properly. Either they crash, the interfaces look like they have been designed by primary school children or they don’t give you many options in terms of settings.

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Tuesday, August 19 2008
 
Film General, Geek
 

Choke on this soundtrack 


The film interpretation of Chuck Palahniuk’s novel Choke is to be released September 26 in the US (later here) starring Sam Rockwell as Victor Mancini and the soundtrack pretty much kicks ass. The trailer ain’t too shabby either.

Update:
There’s been reports Radiohead have scored the film with new music. Not true according to The Playlist. Rather their track ‘The Reckoner’ will close out the film. The score has already been completed by Nathan Larson as listed on IMDB.

Soundtrack:

  1. Ben Kweller: “The Rules”
  2. The Natural History: “Don’t You Ever”
  3. Fiery Furnaces: “Navy Nurse”
  4. Radiohead: “Reckoner”
  5. Alap Momin: “Sin Terror”
  6. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah: “Satan Said Dance”
  7. Buzzcocks: “Orgasm Addict” (ft. Howard Devoto)
  8. Death Cab for Cutie: “No Sunlight”
  9. Blitzen Trapper: “Wicked” (previously unreleased)
  10. Ms. Tyree Sugar Jones: “If You Feel It”
  11. My Morning Jacket: “Touch Me I’m Going to Scream Pt. 1″
  12. Shout Out Louds: “Bicycle”
  13. Twilight Singers: “There’s Been an Accident”
  14. Nicole Atkins and the Sea: “Crystal Ship” (Doors cover, previously unreleased)
 
 
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Friday, August 15 2008
 
Film General
 
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