Film and Digital Media @ Messiah

Director Brandon Dickerson had seven days to shoot and post the music video promo for the upcoming Disney release The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian. The concept was to take the […]

From May 14th to May 24th 2008, the Festival de Cannes will present the 5th edition of the Short Film Corner, where you will discover an array of activities designed to help you develop your film projects.

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In an article titled Picturehouse, WIP to close shop — Warner Bros. shuts down specialty film units, Thursday’s Variety (5-8-2008), states

Warner Bros. has discovered a way to deal with the specialty film business — it’s staying away from it.
The flagship studio ended months of speculation Thursday by shuttering both

Picturehouse and Warner Independent Pictures. The closings […]

In director Boaz Yakin’s new feature film Death in Love — which premiered earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival — actress Emma Bell gives a stellar performance in a great scene. The framing is in close-up, and Emma goes from a completely still face to an extreme emotional breakdown and back to a […]

The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) and the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) broke off three weeks of contract talks without agreement on Tuesday, raisung the prospect of renewed Hollywood labor unrest after a 100-day writers strike that ended in February.

The AMPTP released a statement about 90 minutes after a self-imposed deadline for […]

Ah, James Cameron — a biblical scholar he ain’t — but a hi-tech leader in the film industry he is. In some ways he tries to out-Lucas George Lucas by praising the latest and greatest film gadgetry, primarily as a way of promoting his upcoming movie using that gadgetry (whatever it may be, Avatar, […]

Director/EP Mike Figgis, DP W. Mott Hupfel Said ‘No Way’ to HD
By David Heuring
April 24, 2008 Source: Film & Video
Director Mike Figgis may be best known for the acclaimed hit Leaving Las Vegas, which ushered in a continuing renaissance in Super 16 film production that began in the mid-1990s. Figgis has earned […]

We recently completed the First African Film Series (on the late Ousmane Sembène — January 1, 1923 to June 9, 2007) ever held at Messiah College. Sembène’s influence on African filmmaking has often led him to be called “the Father of African film.” Perhaps this is not quite accurate, at least if it […]

Here’s a couple of bon mots from a great essay by David Bordwell, the leading film historian and theorist:

When Žižek tries to be serious and dismantle an argument critically, the results are vague, digressive, equivocal, contradictory, and either obviously inaccurate or merely banal. This might explain why he so seldom tries to be analytical. Vagueness, […]

Bollywood, the Indian film industry ruled over by a handful of Indian billionaires and their grind-house star system, has effectively banned all Pakistani films from showing in India for 43 years. India’s extreme prejudice against the films of its northern neighbor has finally been broken by a courageous Muslim film entitled “Khuda Kay […]