night fishing ( film )
as park’s night fishing and the iphone film festival have proven, making a feature film today no longer requires millions of dollars and fancy equipments .
the movie is paranmanjang or night fishing, made with a super - modest budget of under $ 135, 000 .
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back again: the international fly fishing film festival. one night only, saturday, february 16 at 6: 00pm. $ 15; $ 10 in advance .
the international fly fishing film festival. one night only, friday, january 4 at 6: 30. tickets are $ 15 at the door or $ 10 in advance or with a paid fly fishing show admission for that day .
the first known film shot entirely on an iphone was night fishing (2011). the director attached a 35mm lens to the iphone’s camera in order to achieve a cinematic look. night fishing draws on the framing and grammar of traditional film, eschewing the characteristics traditionally associated with portable recording such as unstable imagery, shaky camera moves, distorted audio, and sickness - invoking motion .
as park’s night fishing has shown us, almost the entire filmmaking process can now be done on an iphone, “from hunting for a film location, shooting auditions, to doing a documentary on the filming process. ”
a note from the director: thanks for a great 2018. we will see you at 2019 denver fly fishing show. - ben furimsky and the fly fishing show family .
a note from the director: thanks for a great 2018. we will see you at 2019 lynnwood fly fishing show. – ben furimsky and the fly fishing show family .
—the same night carl died. the radioman, attempting to guide the freighter back on course, advised its crew to steer the huge ship directly through the channel where carl was fishing that night. according to the logbook, the freighter passed through carl’s area at
this review of night fishing comes following a screening of the film at the london korean film festival 2011, as part of the mise en scène shorts section. i' d sincerely like to thank everyone involved in the organisation of the festival for allowing me to see this astounding film, as well as many others throughout the lkff .
. world premier of the if4 film festival held here at the fly fishing show in denver! one night only, friday, january 5 at 6: 30. tickets are $ 15 at the door or $ 10 in advance .
we are pleased to announce that production is gearing up for our short film “the fishing club” based on an award winning short story by catherine tarleton. the fishing club will showcase an ensemble cast of all - star hawaii talent featuring robert kekaula and kealii reichel. it’s about a group of fishing buddies who devise a plan to save their favorite fishing spot from development, and what happens when their plan spins out of control .
one night only, saturday, february 16 at 6: 30. tickets are $ 15 at the door or $ 10 in advance or with a paid fly fishing show admission for that day .
gunwalloe on the lizard relived its smugglings past when aidan turner and a hoard of other cast members and extras descended to film night - time ship wrecking scenes .
park promotes night fishing in an ad that’s also made on the iphone. in it, he asks himself, “is there anything i can do that greatest directors haven’t done yet? ” he then strokes his chin and answers, “ah! making a film with the iphone! ”
deep in the woods, cutting through the fog, a man walks in carrying a fishing bag. he arrives at the edge of a river. the man leisurely goes about setting up his fishing rods and starts fishing. hours later, night has fallen on the quiet riverside. the man hasn' t caught mush fish and just sits, waiting. just then, somthing big is caught on the fishing rod. it' s not something he can put on his dinner plate, but the body of a mysterious young woman in white funeral dress !
﻿deep in the woods, cutting through the fog, a man walks in carrying a fishing bag. he arrives at the edge of a river. the man leisurely goes about setting up his fishing rods and starts fishing. hours later, night has fallen on the quiet riverside. the man hasn’t caught much fish and just sits, waiting. just then, something big is caught on the fishing rod. it’s not something he can put on his dinner plate, but a mysterious young woman in white funeral dress crying in a little girl’s voice, call him “daddy” …
night fishing, co - directed by park’s younger brother, media artist park chan - kyong, took ten days to shoot with a crew of only 80 people. it’s a 30 - minute fantasy - horror film about a “surreal encounter between a fisherman and a female shaman (medium). ” it tells the story of a middle - aged man who one night catches the body of a woman while fishing. as he was trying to untangle her from the fishing line, he finds himself becoming more entangled in the process. he faints and wakes up in the outfit the woman was wearing. the film’s viewpoint then switches to that of the woman and the movie becomes a traditional korean tale of life and death .
not many films that clock in at 33 minutes generate the press coverage and hype that surrounds night fishing (paranmanjang), a surprisingly polished work shot by oldboy director park chan - wook and his brother park chan - kyong (they made the film under the acronym of parking chance) on the iphone 4 .
parking chance is a team of directors formed by park chan - wook and park chan - kyong. parking chance won the golden bear award in the berilnale shorts category at the berlin international film festival 2011 with the movie night fishing, which was the first iphone filmed short movie in the world to be released in the theaters .
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for the lowly protagonist, david mann, spielberg hand - picked character actor dennis weaver because he loved his performance as the jittery and feeble hotel night manager in orson welles’s 1958 film touch of evil .
paranmanjang / night fishing will have its theatrical premiere in seoul on january 27. hopefully, it will be released for u. s. audiences soon thereafter. just out of curiosity alone, there’s no doubt the line for tickets will be a long one .
gunter offers to watch all of rosita' s 25 piglets for the night, trying to prove he' s the best babysitter ever .
we think the making of night fishing on an iphone is an amazing accomplishment. in addition to the fresh creativity inspired by making a film on a smaller camera with limited capabilities, the biggest advantage to shooting on the iphone 4 is that it’s inexpensive. this reason alone will open doors to many other filmmakers who have been held back because of financial reasons .
14. the film enjoyed one of the longest theatrical runs in movie history .
from the outset, it was the director who tantalized film lovers: park chan - wook, the man behind such acclaimed works as sympathy for mr. vengeance and oldboy, teamed up with his brother chan - kyong in an attempt to create a frightening, fantastical film using only an iphone 4. the finished product, night fishing, was first screened for a handful of reporters back in january, before going on to win the award for best short film at the berlin international film festival in february. it arrived in america not long after at south by southwest. this past weekend, it made a splash in new york city as part of this year’s creators project film sidebar .
so here are a few of pictures from our recently wrapped short film “the fishing club”. this was a passion project for us and was only possible with the help and support of everyone who worked on it. many thanks to the cast and crew who spent late nights making the short film come to life .
15. kesey refused to see the film (but may have by accident) .
one night only, saturday, february 16, at 6: 00 pm. tickets are $ 15 at the door or $ 10 in advance .
given the economics at play, this represents yet another profound step forward, towards a world where amateurs with a minuscule budget can shoot (and distribute) like professionals. here is a compilation of night fishing highlights, which spotlights many of the key camera techniques and visual aesthetics i have written about :
a fantasy film, the iphone short’s english title is night fishing. it follows fisherman by a river when he encounters a female shaman and goes from this life to the next. (its original title is paranmanjang, which translates roughly to “checkered” as in “a checkered past” .) the film stars actor oh kwang - rok, who played one of the avenging parents in park chan - wook’s sympathy for lady vengeance, and lee jung hyun, an actress and pop singer .
about 300 curious onlookers packed into brooklyn’s powerhouse arena bookstore to watch night fishing. and from the first sequence, it becomes clear that the parks viewed this project as the chance to push the iphone camera to its limits. a finished portion of the film is already up on youtube (though there appears to be a slight decline in resolution, versus what i saw projected in brooklyn) :
the behind - the - scenes for night fishing is fascinating even if i can’t understand a word spoken (it’s in korean without subtitles). we get glimpses of the actual filming locations of the movie, the intricate storyboard, and all the different lenses used on the iphone 4 during filming. it’s mind - bending how much preparation goes into making a short film with a small camera .
paranmanjang, which means
a life full of ups and downs
in korean, is about a man transcending his current and former lives. he catches a woman while fishing in a river in the middle of the night. they both end up entangled in the line and he thinks she is dead .
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summary: take the fact that night fishing was made using the iphone4 and completely set it aside, for even if you took all the best elements from park chan - wook' s previous films, wrapped them up within a gripping narrative and added the beyond exemplary cast performances seen here, you still wouldn' t come even close to creating a film as astounding as this, regardless of what technology was used .
even though it was filmed using the iphone, night fishing has the same image resolution as any other feature films shot with standard industry cameras. park chan - wook, a hitchcock devotee, originally approached this film with a for fun attitude. “new technology always offers wonders and useful features. testing them is part of the amusement, ” he said. but then he discovered how exciting the ride turned out to be .
night fishing takes an unexpected turn from that horror film set - up into ghostly spirituality, as park and brother / co - director park chan - kyong explore korean death rituals and employ actress lee jung hyun in a dual performance as both the ghostly corpse and a living shaman tasked with contacting the world of the dead. lee, a pop idol in asia, mesmerizes in the role, embodying multiple souls in quick succession .
the film strikes a more sober and difficult tone than many of park’s genre - influenced films .
the short running time will obviously limit the work’s distribution options, nonetheless finecut will be angling for interested buyers at the upcoming efm. the film will also screen in berlin’s short film competition .
a haunting ghost story from the director of stoker and oldboy. a man gets tangled in his fishing line and an eerie mystery when he catches more than he bargained for .
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night fishing (the literal translation of the korean title being “ups and downs”) begins with a fairly off - the - wall (complete) music track by contemporary korean band' uhuhboo project', and while the predominant featuring of what is essentially a music video may, at first glance, seem somewhat out of place in a cinematic narrative work, its appearance instantly allows an early referencing of the idea that events and situations in night fishing (including the film itself) are often far from what they initially appear to be - subsequently also shown to be the case in the appearance of the seemingly dead body; the music that we assume is simply the radio playing random songs; as well as in gi - suk' s place in the overall scheme of things; and even in the reality behind his fishing by the lake. not only that, but this avant - garde musical piece (when considered alongside the music of a shamanic ritual that takes place in the latter stages of the film) also serves as a contrast between contemporary and traditional korea as a whole, just as the ritual itself bridges the gap between the old and the new, the living and the dead, and though it isn' t apparent until much later in proceedings, the relevance of the lyrics of both the major musical elements in night fishing having references to love, life and death bring those worlds ever closer from the very outset of the film - long before we are consciously aware that that is the case .
fans of park chan - wook probably remember that the master korean filmmaker shot a short film entirely on an iphone 4 a few years back (that is, two iphones ago). the short, “ night fishing ” aka “ paramanjang, ” was made with some help from his brother, park chan - kyong and was released theatrically in south korea back in january of 2011, hitting the festival circuit shortly after. for those who haven’t had a chance to catch the film can rejoice as the short is available on youtube in its entirety .
south korean film - maker park chan - wook is wielding a new cinematic tool: the iphone .
the camera floats ethereally through the world of night fishing like a disembodied specter, the picture alternately grainy and clear, with a compactness and freedom you can feel. close - ups on oh' s face are captured with stunning clarity so clear and sharp that it' s difficult to imagine park and his crew were merely using an iphone to capture the scene .
when harmony korine' s short film umshini wam screened alongside the latest from korean filmmaker park chan - wook (oldboy, sympathy for mr. vengeance, thirst) at sxsw, both efforts had an unproven element to unveil. for korine, the wild cards were his stars, the south african hip - hop act die antwoord. but for park, it was something even more groundbreaking: he filmed the mystical, spiritual ghost story night fishing entirely using the iphone 4 .
in typical daylight fishing, anglers are accustomed to seeing what they’re doing and watching the line or the lure, but this is seldom possible at night. you can use black lights that make it easy to watch fluorescent lines, but although this was a popular monofilament line several decades ago, few anglers use this type of line, today. for the most part, intuition and a feel for your tackle become more important at night than during the day. this makes it advantageous to use a sensitive rod and line, and to forgo using ultralight tackle .
by now, you’ve probably heard all the buzz about the first feature film made entirely on an iphone 4 .
of course, it did cost $ 130, 000, much of which park credited to paying his crew of 80 and buying food. any old smartphone video won' t look this good without proper cinematography, lighting, and a mind for tweaking the in - phone camera for optimal use. but night fishing proves that it can be done, and well. could 3d iphone filmmaking be next ?
smartphone technologies are increasingly playing a major part in film production, distribution and reception. this month sees the launch of what is being billed as the “ world’s first selfie movie ”. and next a series is to air on instagram. last year, tangerine became the first film shot on an iphone to feature at the sundance film festival .
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we will be shooting from may 30th – june 4 at various locations throughout oahu. the fishing club will be directed by david rosen with dana hankins and claire tong as executive producers and darrin kaneshiro as producer
park' s story jumps around with little warning and explanation, leaving the viewer to piece together what' s happening on their own. for a few sxswers in attendance that was asking too much, but those with patience and the fortitude to follow the events onscreen, night fishing can be a transcendent experience - - even more so if you' re also conscious of how park is using his camera .
the second stop, rodanthe pier, was the scene of the party the villagers threw themselves after the storm passed. the scene was shot with about 400 extras and most of the principal cast. the wind speed on the night of the filming was between 25 and 30 miles per hour, and filming lasted until 4 a. m. it was a night that won’t soon be forgotten by locals .
filmed with an appropriately cold naturalism, night fishing (paranmanjang) is evidence that cell phone movies can transcend their gimmicky trappings. the 33 - minute narrative short, shot entirely on the iphone 4 and financed by korean iphone provider kt for $ 130k, is a hauntingly evocative tale alighting on a fisherman (oh kwang - rok) who treks deep into the wilderness for a weekend trip, unaware of a coming storm. he catches a woman' s drowned body in and, in a comically tense sequence of events, panics and becomes entangled in fishing line with the corpse. and then things get really strange .
a criminally underrated gem of ’70s cinema, night moves stars gene hackman as a retired football player - turned - private investigator who is hired by an aging starlet to track down her wayward daughter. naturally, this seemingly simple assignment leads our hero down a convoluted path littered with illicit relationships and rampant corruption. released a year after francis ford coppola’s much celebrated the conversation, night moves very much serves as that film’s spiritual sibling—a complex, somewhat opaque treatise on american cynicism in a post - watergate world. — m. r .
and rutger hauer, as well as some of the most emotionally intense action set pieces ever put to film. moreover, a good portion of the film’s appeal lies in its incorporation of film noir aesthetics—shadow - filled, rainy metropolitan exteriors, a brooding yet resourceful investigator hero, retro ’40s fashion—into its dreary, dystopian setting. at one point, the film even boasted a philip marlowe - esque voiceover narration that was thankfully excised from future cuts. once regarded as a failed experiment ,
night fishing centres around a fisherman (park regular oh gwang - rok) who reels in a fish that transforms into a young woman once touching land (actor / pop star lee jung - hyun, in a great performance). she begins talking to him of his long - lost daughter, and it only gradually becomes apparent that she is a shaman acting as a medium between the land of the living and the dead .
, flopped at the box office only to be revived later as a beloved cult classic. the film casts rufus swell as an amnesiac who wakes up one night to discover that his city is (quite literally) being manipulated by a band of mysteriously pale men in jet - black trench coats and fedoras. along for the ride is
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13. one flew over the cuckoo’s nest was the first film to win all “big five” academy awards in 41 years .
all things considered, night fishing is so subtly hypnotic that there’s no denying its effectiveness. by the end of the opening sequence, i forgot all about the devices being used on the set. and i emerged convinced: we have arrived at the crossroads where an iphone video camera can be used to achieve a professional - grade cinematic experience. in fact, we cannot be far away from the first full - length iphone studio feature .
cast: oh kwang - rok (as gi - suk) gives an accomplished and note - worthy performance in night fishing, easily equalling those of his previous films, but lee jeong - hyeon' s portrayal of the seemingly dead girl / shaman is so utterly astonishing that she, time and again, puts him firmly in the shade. both an actress and a korean pop singer (better known for the latter), lee jeong - hyeon' s casting in night fishing simply couldn' t be bettered - single - handedly raising the level of proceedings at every single turn. she (seemingly almost effortlessly) owns every frame of every scene in which she appears, regularly succeeding in utterly changing the overall feeling of proceedings with just a glance, a move of her head or a sung musical note. all of the above comes even before i even properly mention her utterly haunting vocals during the shamanic ritual itself - in short, her singing and accompanying acting performance simply cannot fail to stay with viewers long after the film credits roll. i could use any and every superlative i could possibly think of (and virtually already have) to try to convey just how jaw - droppingly mesmerizing she is to watch in night fishing, but in doing so i still wouldn' t have gone anywhere near far enough, and, at the end of the day, the only way to truly appreciate what she brings to the film is to see her performance for yourself. incredible! the rest of the main cast play largely supporting roles, but each performs admirably throughout .
initially, forman was vocally opposed to including a scene that took place beyond the grounds of the hospital out of concerns that a temporary liberation would undercut the dramatic force of the film’s ending. in the end, zaentz convinced forman to shoot the fishing trip sequence. it was the final scene filmed and the only piece shot out of chronological order .
obviously, your vision is better on nights with moonlight than it is on dark or overcast nights, although there is some debate over whether bright nights are better for fishing than dark nights. keeping the use of external - source lights to a minimum is a good idea for some types of fishing, though it is unnecessary for others. it is also well known that locations prone to receiving light (docks, piers, bridges, etc .) may attract small fish and thus larger predators, although this is more likely the case in saltwater than in freshwater. even if you have great intuition and a natural feel for your tackle, a small headlamp is a proper accessory for night fishing, since it frees both hands and issues only a small amount of light. better ones are those with red and / or green color options, which are not as alarming to fish if you happen to turn toward the water .
korean auteur park chan - wook has co - directed a 30 - minute film with his brother park chan - kyong which korea telecom (kt) says will be the first short film in the world shot entirely on apple’s iphone 4 to be screened in theatres .
in both quality of filmmaking and cynicism of spirit. this film not only announced hanson as a filmmaker well beyond his previous work (
we all know the iphone single - handedly changed the way people shoot photos, but surprisingly, it’s also beginning to impact the world of professional filmmaking. apple’s flagship smartphone recently made headlines at the 2015 sundance film festival for the critically praised feature - length film ,
don brown did a wonderful job putting together the episode on the fishing club for his show, hawaii’s reel stories on oc16. it includes several scenes from our shoot and give a pretty good feel for the movie. check it out !
film noir or horror—which category does charles laughton’s night of the hunter belong in? frankly, all such quibbles are needless. the film fits snugly beneath either appellation, for one thing: it’s a hybridized version of both. (let’s call it “film noirror. ”) for another, it’s a masterwork, so fie upon labels. night of the hunter lurks in shadows and revels in misogyny. whether you’ve seen it or not, you probably have the image of robert mitchum’s tattooed knuckles imprinted upon your brain thanks to pop culture osmosis. reverend harry powell is quite the villain, a man as quick to distort the truth with honey - coated lies as laughton is to distort reality through oblique perspective, unnerving use of shadows and light, and a dizzying array of camera compositions that make small - town west virginia feel altogether otherworldly. — a. c .
“from hunting for a film location, shooting auditions, to doing a documentary on the filming process, everything was shot with the iphone 4, ” said mr. park. “we went through all the same film - making processes except that the camera was small. ”
the short is a whimsical tale of life and death, about a man who goes fishing into the night and winds up catching the body of a woman with his hook, entangling himself with her in the process and she comes alive. the film then abruptly changes to a funeral ritual where the woman is a shaman priestess, and the fisherman speaks through her to his relatives, asking for forgiveness. it’s all delightfully weird stuff and, all things considered, the iphone experiment worked out fairly well, adding a demented look to an already strange and moving tale. what do you think? check it out below. [ via
touted as the first film shot entirely with an iphone 6, filmmaker tristan pope’s pov film romance in nyc depicts two lovers’ everyday lives in new york city. the film expertly captures the subtleties of relationships – even the usual humdrum – rendering it as romantic as it is gripping. the crew accomplished the feat with just an iphone 6, an hd2000 glidecam, a blackwing grip, and several tripods and shoulder rigs. edits were made using the moviepro app, which pope further expanded upon recently alongside his inspirations and ideas for the sensational film with indiewire .
a short film about psychics, floating corpses and the afterlife proves that riveting major - league cinema can be created on the tiniest of devices .
like a fast - paced burner. it’s not fincher’s most famous film, but it’s absolutely one of the most underrated thrillers since 2000. —
aestheticizes violence without fetishizing it. bullet holes and knife wounds help color the film in dark brushstrokes—such is the coens’ wont—and careful attention to shot composition ratchets the film’s morbid elements to almost intoxicating heights. you’ll want to look away, but the coens keep your eyes glued to their somber fatalism. —
treats redemption as a cruel joke, a spell of relief that lasts only long enough for us to view its obsolescence. the film takes jabs at
spielberg got his start directing for tv at the age of 21, helming episodes of such shows as night gallery and marcus welby, m. d. but the aspiring filmmaker was desperately searching for a property he could turn into a feature film. it was spielberg' s secretary, nona tyson, who found matheson’s story in playboy and first sent it to her boss to potentially adapt into a movie .
patrick is comforted by his girlfriend, silvie, and his two guy friends. that night, patrick asks lee if silvie can spend the night because his dad always let her. lee asks patrick why he is asking him. patrick tells lee that her parents thinks she sleeps downstairs and if they ask, can he tell them she isn’t staying in his room? lee becomes very silent and then asks if he’s supposed to tell patrick to use a condom. patrick tells him that his dad already had that conversation with him .
directed by park chan - wook, the man behind the south korean iteration of oldboy, this 33 - minute film featured a “big” budget of $ 130, 000 despite utilizing an iphone 4 for filming purposes. however, it should also go without saying a hefty chunk of the budget went into working some post - production magic, which allowed the filmmakers to drastically spruce up the film’s visual qualities. the fantasy - horror flick features k - pop star lee jung - hyun as a man who encounters more than just sturgeon during what’s intended to be a mellow fishing trip .
one thing to look for in the fishing scene: a very subtle anjelica huston cameo. huston, who was dating nicholson during production, has a nonspeaking role as one of the spectators on the dock as mcmurphy and his fellow patients steer the stolen boat back to shore .
park, director of oldboy, lady vengeance and thirst, said his new fantasy - horror film paranmanjang was shot entirely on apple' s ubiquitous smartphone .
although you might be tempted to organize a last - minute fishing trip to an unknown destination, don' t. instead, take the time to familiarize yourself with the place that you’re fishing while it' s still daylight. make a note of the obstacles that might get in your way, maybe even sketch out a map. it' s much easier to fish a place that you know well than one that is unfamiliar to you. when casting, it’s also best to slow down and work an area well rather than try to hustle all over .
forty years before the blair witch project popularized the idea of a film being told from the camera’s perspective, actor / director robert montgomery gave this radical idea a spin with lady in the lake, his adaptation of one of raymond chandler’s philip marlowe detective stories. ultimately, the case proves to be minor marlowe and the first - person gimmick does eventually wear thin over the course of the film’s runtime. putting aside these reservations, however, the film is most certainly worth a watch if just to witness montgomery’s sheer audacity and inventiveness. it’s the textbook example of a film being ahead of its time. — m. r .
and los angeles, thus necessitating some creative uses of lighting. this commitment to realism would help perfect the film noir style we all know and love. —
was a rarity in its heyday, though if you didn’t know lupino held the reins, you might not guess the film was directed with a feminine touch .
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gi - suk (oh kwang - rok) heads out to the countryside to spend some time fishing alone and, after setting up his various reels, settles down to wait for a fish to bite. as night begins to fall, he finally hears the tingle of the bite alarm signaling that he has snared something, but on struggling to land his' catch' he finds not a fish on his hook but, instead, the limp and seemingly lifeless body of a young woman (lee jeong - hyeon), dressed in funeral attire, tangled up in his line…
park chan - wook, whose oldboy and thirst both won awards at cannes, co - directed this short film with his younger brother park chan - kyong. the younger park is a visual artist whose anyang, paradise city has been selected to the upcoming rotterdam film festival’s bright future section for first - and second - time directors .
kt plans to release the film jan 27 on about 10 screens in south korea. tickets will be made available in a kt lottery draw. the leading south korean telecommunications company put up $ 133, 000 (kw150m) for the film, which was shot entirely with the iphone 4 using extra lenses and otherwise regular filmmaking equipment .
as seen during the creators project screening, the one major drawback to the iphone shoot appears to be a slight degradation in image quality. that is to be expected, and there are indeed a couple of issues to be found with depth of vision, and crispness of image. but here’s the caveat to that observation: with something like night fishing, where stylized framing and points of view are par for the type of surreal story being told, i stopped noticing the blurred edges almost immediately. i was far more captivated by the editing rhythm, the camera movements and the supernatural juxtapositions .
not since 1934' s it happened one night swept the oscars had a film walked away with awards for best picture, best director, best actor, best actress, and best screenplay. one flew over the cuckoo’s nest took home the lot, with nicholson and fletcher winning the top acting awards. the feat would not be matched again for another 16 years, with silence of the lambs becoming the next (and last to date) movie to earn the distinction .
the director is park chan - wook, one of south korea’s most commercially successful young filmmakers. a few of his well - known movies are sympathy for mr. vengeance, oldboy (which won the grand prix award at the 2004 cannes film festival), and thirst (which won the jury prize at the 2009 cannes film festival) .
the film begins on 5 september 2006 near the kajaki dam in helmand province. one of the men of 3 para is addressing two afghan boys who have just nearly killed him while indulging in the adorable childhood pastime of grenade - fishing. “i’m here trying to bring peace and love to your fucking stone - age country, ” he explains. “don’t pick a fight with an armed midget, ” his buddy warns him. the unspoken question behind the film is set up: what are british soldiers doing in afghanistan, anyway? some critics have felt this film lacks engagement with the local population or the wider scope of the war, but surely that’s exactly the point: these soldiers are just ordinary blokes (they’re all blokes), a long way from home, doing an incredibly dangerous job without much sense of why .
fly fishers international (ffi) hosts the fly fishing show learning center with fly tying, casting instruction and other fly fishing information and is free to show attendees. fly tying focuses on young attendees, but all ages are welcome. tying sessions begin every 30 minutes during periods of high demand; “when you get there” during periods of lighter attendance. there are usually three casting classes per day taught by ffi certified casting instructors, 11am, 1 and 3pm. sign - up for each casting class at the ffi booth. these classes are limited to 10 students and are about 1 hour long. fly rods provided .
the launch of the ipad in april 2010 opened up further possibilities for cinematic - style storytelling. the silver goat (2012) was the first feature film to be created exclusively for the ipad, the first to be released as an app in the uk and several other countries, and the first in the world to have an ipad - only premiere. this took place on a london route master bus which traversed many of the film’s locations throughout the city while the audience members watched the film on their individual ipads .
plays with noir tropes more than he plays to them, deflating film noir’s inherent machismo by revealing the chief heavies of his cast as scrabbling cowards. depending on your mood ,
when producers were shopping the picture to studios, 20th century fox was interested, but with a catch. fox would distribute the film, but only if the filmmakers would agree to rewrite the ending; the studio wanted mcmurphy to live. producers saul zaentz and michael douglas wisely considered this a deal breaker, and united artists eventually distributed the film .
prior to reinventing filmic language with their playful genre experiments, the members of france’s new wave movement got their start as film critics. in fact, it was through their writings and discussions that the term “film noir” was first christened as a means of describing a certain breed of brooding postwar films. it’s not surprising then that louis malle—though not an official new wave member—would settle on a film noir - influenced project as his first feature film. acting both as an homage to noir as well as a subversion of its structure, elevator to the gallows stars jeanne moreau and maurice ronet as a pair of criminals whose plan to kill moreau’s husband quickly falls apart when the ronet character gets stuck in an elevator. this already absurd concept becomes all the more confounding when paired with the film’s unorthodox, experimental editing and somber, miles davis - performed jazz score. — m. r .
shocked, the man trips up on his fishing rods, and gets tangled together with the woman by the fishing lines. he struggles to untangle himself free, but the more he tries, the more he gets tangled. suddenly, the woman' s arm wraps around the man' s neck. the man screams and faints. later, the woman, now wearing the man' s clothes, wakes up the man, who is now wearing her white funeral dress. the man completely confused. to make matters worse, the woman starts to cry in a little girl' s voice, calling him
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lee sits up in the guest bedroom, thinking. we flashback to six years earlier, when patrick, joe, and lee returned home to find elsie passed out on the couch after drinking all night  with no pants or underwear on. lee has to usher the 8 - year - old patrick upstairs .
nicholas ray’s first picture boasts perhaps the dumbest wronged protagonist in film noir’s history. what kind of nitwit plots to clear his name in a wrongful conviction by committing a crime? sure, fine, maybe knocking over a bank is less heinous than killing a man, but farley granger’s doomed hero, bowie, doesn’t really connect the dots and realize that robbery is still a jailable offense. the intellectual merits of bowie’s bright idea are irrelevant, though: they live by night cares deeply about the inescapable grasp of the law and the people who wind up caught in it. some of them are genuinely scummy people, like bowie’s fellow fugitives, one - eye and t - dub. some of them are victims of the system, who lack the means to prove their uprightness. they live by night is a superlative example of an atypical noir domain—the film takes place largely on the road instead of in the city—but most of all, it’s a heartbreaking stunner about the decay of human innocence. — a. c .
is the coolest melville film of them all; odds are, it’ll land upright, because that’s an impossible distinction to make. melville films pulse with ineffable cool. in the case of
as with all filmmaking cameras, using just the iphone by itself wasn’t quite enough to create a complete film. rather, the crew relied on extra equipment to beef up the film quality, including a prototype anamorphic lens adapter from moondog labs, the filmic pro video app, and a steadicam. the film crew also received a healthy dose of help on the audio front, utilizing an sd 664 production mixer, boom mics, and even a lavalier during the filmmaking process. baker specifically pointed to the anamorphic lens as the essential part of tangerine’s production, though. “to tell you the truth, i wouldn’t have even made the movie without it, ” baker told the verge, further emphasizing how it “elevated” the film to a more “cinematic level. ”
rage (2009) was the first feature film to be designed for mobile phone viewing, and one which embedded the mobile phone symbiotically into the processes of production, distribution and consumption. although the film itself was shot using a conventional video camera held by the director, it clearly considers the mobile phone in its creation: each of the protagonists addresses a fictional camera operator who is filming each of their private exchanges using his mobile phone. rage was distributed simultaneously as a theatrical release and as a downloadable film via babelgum (for free) to be watched on a mobile phone .
there remains no incontrovertible proof of kabuo’s innocence until ishmael chambers stumbles across a logbook from a local lighthouse on the evening of the second day of the trial. the logbook, kept by a radioman’s assistant who is no longer stationed on san piedro, records that a large freighter got lost in dense fog off the island on the night of september
farther down highway 12, enjoy a dinner at captain’s table or diamond shoals restaurants located in the heart of buxton village, and as you decide where to stay for the night, check around with locals to see if the band coyote is playing music anywhere nearby. they appeared in nights in rodanthe and regularly perform on hatteras and ocracoke islands .
uh had a great game last night beating colorado in their season opener. our new spot for straub debuted in the game. the spot is about scott harding, uh’s all - american punter from last year. scott is an amazing talent. he not only punted, but he was also their punt returner and one of their leading receivers .
now we flashback to seven years earlier, like in the first scene of the film. lee is on the boat with an 8 - year - old patrick. he teases him about a shark that is going to eat him but patrick is unfazed, a tough massachusetts kid. he gets a bite on his fishing pole and begins to reel it in. we cut to the present. lee rushes up to manchester to inform patrick about his father. he drives through the town and has a flashback  of seven years earlier, returning home to his wife, randi (michelle williams) who is sick in bed. he says hello to his seven - year - old daughter, playfully teases his five - year - old daughter, and picks up his eight - month - old son. he then kisses randi despite her being bedridden. he tells her about his day, fishing with patrick .
then there’s the film app (2013), for which audiences were required to download the accompanying app – iris - prior to entering the cinema and then encouraged to interact with it in the auditorium. a horror film in which an app takes over the main protagonists (and the audiences phones) – alludes to the consequences of our new reliance on smartphone devices and its subversion of our privacy .
, alex proyas’ 1998 magnum opus serves up a cerebral sci - fi extravaganza as filtered through the visual tropes of film noir and german expressionism. the result is a staggering achievement in imagination that, like
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hollywood is really out of ideas which is proven by this movie. gone fishin is a classic 90s movie how could they remake it with dwayne johnson! first dwayne remakes jumanji, another classic 90s movie, and now he remakes gone fishin! ? if you haven' t seen the original gone fishing do yourself a favour and watch it, not this remake trash !
is a masterpiece. funny to think that american critics looked down their noses at the film at the time of its release. maybe they took offense at the inescapable scent of welles’ passion for rita hayworth, his wife at the time and his ex shortly after production wrapped. he captures her in close - up with a hungry, enraptured eye, the most coherent image in a film that’s built on logical incoherence.
night fishing ( original korean title : 파란만장 ; paranmanjang , lit . " ups and downs . " or " a checkered past " ) is a 2011 south korean fantasy-horror short film directed , produced , written by parking chance ( brand name of the brothers , park chan-wook and park chan-kyong ) . the lead role is played by k-pop star , lee jung-hyun . it was shot entirely on the apple iphone 4 , and was financially supported by kt ( south korea 's exclusive distributor of the iphone at the time ) , which supplied the duo with 150 million korean won ( us$ 133,447 ) . it was screened to over 100 reporters on january 11 , 2011 , and opened for public release on january 27 . the film won the golden bear for best short film at the 61st berlin international film festival . 
night fishing (original korean title: 파란만장; paranmanjang, lit. " ups and downs. " or " a checkered past ") is a 2011 south korean fantasy-horror short film directed, produced, written by parking chance (brand name of the brothers, park chan-wook and park chan-kyong). the lead role is played by k-pop star, lee jung-hyun. it was shot entirely on the apple iphone 4, and was financially supported by kt (south korea's exclusive distributor of the iphone at the time), which supplied the duo with 150 million korean won (us$ 133,447). it was screened to over 100 reporters on january 11, 2011, and opened for public release on january 27. the film won the golden bear for best short film at the 61st berlin international film festival.
night fishing (original korean title: 파란만장; paranmanjang, lit. " ups and downs. " or " a checkered past ") is a 2011 south korean fantasy-horror short film directed, produced, written by parking chance (brand name of the brothers, park chan-wook and park chan-kyong). the lead role is played by k-pop star, lee jung-hyun. it was shot entirely on the apple iphone 4, and was financially supported by kt (south korea's exclusive distributor of the iphone at the time), which supplied the duo with 150 million korean won (us$ 133,447). it was screened to over 100 reporters on january 11, 2011, and opened for public release on january 27. the film won the golden bear for best short film at the 61st berlin international film festival.