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The Best DVD of the Year: Jean-Luc Godard’s Histoire(s) du Cinema

A quarter-century after the French director began it, his grand film essay on movies is finally available on DVD.  Richard Corliss with Time Magazine wrote a great article on the film.  Godard’s maybe the only one who knows what it all means and is crazy brave enough to say it.

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Due Credit and the Art of Theatrical Trailers

I’ve come across two new fantastic websites.  The first one, ArtoftheTitle.com, reclaims the glory days of beautiful designed title sequences.  The websites features an amazing curation of the best opening title sequences from over 400 films, along with editorial notes on each sequence. The second website, trailersfromhell.com, is even better.  It features modern day writers [...]

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VHS Zombies

“I was not around during the main VHS boom, but I’ve never liked DVDs,” said Mr. Justin, who has a VHS tape tattooed on his arm. “When I was younger and I went to the record store, my parents would push me to get the CD, but I wanted the cassette. I’m an analog nerd.” [...]

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Nothing New Under The Sun (short film) from Monte Robison on Vimeo.

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Nothing New Under the Sun

Posted by on August 22, 2008

NYU Film School, 16mm B&W silent.  Filmed across the Brooklyn Bridge, Greenwich Village and Soho, this is a class project I directed for my intro to film production class way back when.

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Human Drama "Look Into a Stranger's Eyes" (music video) from Monte Robison on Vimeo.

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Human Drama “Look Into a Stranger’s Eyes” music video

Posted by on August 22, 2008

Filmed in Hollywood, this was my first 16mm music video that I directed.  We shot inside the basement of the old Hollywood athletic club right off of Sunset Blvd, as well as in various other locations around Hollywood.

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