Movies that I can watch with my two-and-a-half year old, that
both of us can enjoy?
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posted by zardoz
on Oct 21, 2011 -
45 answers
What percentage of the movie
Slumdog Millionaire is in Hindi? (Yep, I'm the one guy who hasn't seen it yet...)
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posted by zardoz
on Mar 16, 2009 -
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I'm wondering about the business end of short films. How do they make money? A no-budget, 5-minute short is one thing, but many shorts have high production values, location shoots, CGI, etc., which can come to a substantial amount. For example the Academy Awards for Best Short nominees all
seem to be (I didn't see em) at least (stab in the dark here) $10,000 and way up.
Unlike features (even really crappy ones), shorts aren't shown in theaters or on video and I've never really seen them outside a shorts festival. Are the producers of these taking a loss? Is it merely a kind of marketing for a director/production company and a loss is the norm?
posted by zardoz
on Apr 26, 2007 -
9 answers
FilmSchoolFilter: In terms of cinematography, what factors cause different movies to, well...look different?
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posted by zardoz
on Dec 14, 2006 -
19 answers
I want to make a list of every movie and book I've ever seen/read. There are a few categorizing apps like this, but nothing I've found is very efficient. Here's my idea and tell me if it's already been done: I can search by genre, actor, director, author, etc and be given a list (preferably with the movie/book cover as a clickable icon), which I can then simply click on to go to my master list. The list then has my choices darkened (and the unclicked ones still light), so I can easily see, say, which Scorsese movie I haven't gotten to yet. Does anything like this exist? If not, it'd be a good project for me to work on (tho probably waaay over my head).
posted by zardoz
on Dec 4, 2006 -
8 answers
StarWarsGeekFilter: I'm trying to find out the origins of the Star Wars character Yoda. I currently live in Japan, and a buddy of mine who's lived here several years said that he met an old Japanese man who was Lucas' inspiration for the character--Lucas knew him somehow. Unfortunately I didn't get details and that buddy has left the country.
So fast forward to a couple of months ago: I was watching TV and this guy was talking about the new Star Wars flick and they flashed up a picture of Yoda, and then next to it a pic of an old Japanese man named
Yorida (family name), who is apparently still alive, living in some small town in Japan. My Japanese ain't so good so I couldn't really tell what they were saying about him.
Does anyone have the skinny on this? My google-fu, as they say, fails me.
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posted by zardoz
on Aug 11, 2005 -
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