I'd like to call them pritas, because in India, we call-- "Betaal" is such a-- so my director, his name is Patrick Graham. Cinema and film is still very far away from that.
It sends a message across the world. Cinema is still cinema .And it says-- when you put a piece in a museum, in anoints it as special.
She was like, I don't what you guys are talking about. Cinema is great for us.But that's because it's so different.
They're not native to cinema . Cinema handles point of view in a very different way.And it's much more fluid.
they sound like, because we are completely left to use our imaginations. Cinema is the complete opposite of the novel.Cinema is primarily a storytelling medium that tells a story through picture and powerful image and some dialogue, but more skewed to powerful image and picture
Cinema is the complete opposite of the novel.Cinema is primarily a storytelling medium that tells a story through picture and powerful image and some dialogue, but more skewed to powerful image and picturethan to dialogue. The difference, of course, between cinema and the novel is that cinema is immutable.
In fact, it doesn't ask us to bring our imagination into it at all. Cinema is a much more passive experience.However powerful it is-- and it's very powerful-- It doesn't ask us to engage in the imaginative way that the novel does.
The novel asks us to work. Cinema asks us to receive these powerful images, usually on a massive screen.So I often think about the difference in movies-- and I'm going to talk in a minute about theatre-- by the way people sit in those seats.
on that every medium has its own grammar. Cinema , for example. We take for granted the grammar of cinema because we're used to watching movies. People have been watching movies now for a hundred years or more. But all of theparts of that grammar, cross-cuts, fades, point of view shots, even a close-up, they all had to be invented.
In 2005, Alissa Quart, a film critic writing in film comment, coined the term "hyperlink cinema ." And a few months after that, Roger Ebert in a review of "Syriana" wrote, usedthe same term. And he wanted to give credit to Alissa Quart, but unfortunately as he pointed out, irony of ironies, "I've lost the link."
in history and then he went um to the West Coast to get a master's degree in screenwriting from UCLA at the school of Cinema and television and a master's degree in playwriting and fiction from UFC so UCLA and UFC Rivals I don't knowwhere he's alleg pa um he's been an adj professor at USC Cinema TV School UCLA
were to do a high we could do it to kind of quity which people would have seen in the cinema when it first released I was like virgin Medyou mean 65 mm you mean like it was shot but never presented it was never presented in 65 mm actually what's funny
was creatively moribund, dead, or undead. Cinematically, the US film industry appeared content to allow younger directors to plunder its back catalog of horror films in what seems like an endless recycle of sequels, remakes, and reboots, a corporate production line, a wasteland.
based on Lena's work and Jod Lee Lipes our our original cinematographer. Um and he went on excuse me to do Manchester by the Sea and and they had a design for the show and I thought well I could maybe do one as well as them. I don't think I could
flow get more jobs out there uh and yet the head muy of Saudi Arabia two days ago came out and said entertainment and Cinemas are you know evil um and so it's actually really very difficult for for the royal family to push economic reformand a kind of liberal opening up of society when you have certain mentalities that are incredibly powerful
it's not you know it's it's not just a a replica of what's going out there in TV but it's it takes a lot I mean the cinematography uh is actually really brilliant it's really well executed thank you I know that you that's all you I mean is this is it that you have just noticed the trends that are happening in in the drama like just the shots and the
that camera the they call it the Sony cine Alta camera uh you can see that you know cinematographers once they get a digital camera they want it to look and act just like a movie camera so you know there's the markers for writing on the Slate what take it is and you know there's still this special knob because on a
guys who were trying to introduce digital cameras to Hollywood would go here and present to the sort of royalty of Hollywood cinematographers and the cinematographers would explain why the resolution wasn't good enough or what features it didn't have or you know you just need to work on it another five or ten years before we want to shoot our movies with it um and Lucas did a really interesting thing
- And almost like an open world game in some ways, in that it's this slice of life. You know, I think that probably changed cinema at the tail end of the '80s, changed cinema at the sort of tail end of the '80s, early '90s, more than any other film. And it's so iconic. In some ways I prefer Casino, but the invention is really in Goodfellas. I love the end of Casino, you know, the use of voiceover, the way you saw them being criminals and being
Yes Yes. Don't start that. French cinema still has enormous blind spots, and I'm often criticized for not reflecting contemporary France, although it's slowly changing.
I've always wanted to exist in other spaces, and live other lives, and be other people, and kind of shape-shift. And cinema has a very powerful way of doing that. And I've always gravitated towards it.
And this is only when we were doing our pop-up. So Cinema Akil, as you know, or you might not know, started off for four years as a non-fixed place. Like, it was a nomadic, roving iterate cinema that would shape-shift every single time, we would take over a space.
Regal Cinema . Yeah, if it's lucky somewhere.
live Cinema broadcast around the world uh on December the 15th which is uh which is it's a really I've I've done
with cinema . If you look at early cinema , they were always-- the first time I ever saw Clint Eastwood in a movie,
In cinema , it'll be an hour and a half.
The cinema , the movie theater in Springfield is called the Springfield Googolplex Theatre.
The cinematography is better.
We spent a lot of time fighting. only cinemas can adapt to.
Twin Cinemas . Twin Cinemas .
that cinematic sound, but featuring piano and santoor.
female cinematographer. And I love to talk about her, because she had never shot a feature, not because she wasn't insanely talented,
The very antithesis of the risk-averse, compromised, moribund condition of much mainstream American cinematic horror around the millennium, which seemed incapable of ever surprising its audience or delighting them. Buffy, of course, also came into being with the internet and so its success was partly augmented by the rise of the blogosphere and by the online culture
The cinematographer, Brandon Trost, spent more time recreating the bad lighting than he did doing his good lighting.
Our cinematographer-- Why didn't you go, Katie?
The cinematographers. And the rest are just support.
The cinematographer we asked to like we never want to set marks for the kids.
The cinematographer, a woman named Mandy Walker, she did most incredible job of capturing what it felt like out there-- what the lake was like, the dust.
on cinematographer and me and them and the way we were able to do it
Achievement in Indian Cinema .
still so-- cinema was there only to entertain.
Talking about Indian cinema and then talking about Hollywood, you've been in films like "The Big Sick." You've been in the show that NBC had, "New Amsterdam."
She revolutionized cinema in very deep levels.
Especially in cinema . And I think especially at a time where we didn't have us as Saudis a platform as cinema , like we do today.
Why do you watch cinema , right?
1,000 seater cinema for $1 per child and booking that entire cinema for $200.
But as Indian cinema has progressed, we've also become really-- we've really been just within the system.
And then we met. And we talked about Cinema Akil. And I did my first pop-up for Cinema Akil, which was SIKKA, SIKKA Art Fair, almost four years ago.
This leads, actually, to my next question. Which is Cinema Akil is the only independent cinema in the Middle East. And you said you started in 2014 as a pop-up.
And some sort of, like, custom-- it does not necessarily go to, or they do, but they're also interested in coming to your cinema that is not necessarily like a regular multiplex cinema . Yeah. I'm really curious to know like, how do you attract these users and what's unique about this space?