Francis Ford Coppola on Pretentious Movies and Filmmaking

The Roots

I’ve lost a lot of sleep to dream.

Behind the Scenes of Abrina “Step Up” Music Video

Take a look behind the scenes of Abrina‘s new music video for “Step Up”.  A few weeks ago we shot the video and now it’s in the final stages of editing.  Download Abrina’s latest mixtape Lady of Hip-Pop here.  The music video is coming very soon.  Follow @AbrinaMusic or @RaymondRoman on Twitter to stay updated!

Michael Kahn

It’s not a film till it’s edited.

I’m a sucker.. for an advertising business model!

I just realized I’m a sucker for technically creating a spec commercial for B&H in hopes to win a new Canon 5D  Mark II camera.  Unfortunately I didn’t make it as a finalist, that would of been nice to win a new camera!  I don’t want to sound like a poor sport but in losing I now see the bigger picture!  The company just got 1000+ free video advertisements online, for the price of 3 giveaway prizes.  I guess that’s the trade off when you’re apart of a contest like this.  After listening to The Terence and Philip Podcast “Is There A Future For Editors” on ProVideoCoalition.com, it got me thinking how many video producers, and editors are losing out on commercial jobs because of these contests?  It’s beneficial to those who win, those who get the views (like myself), and those who receive recognition because of these contest, but in the end it’s the company benefiting here.  Now that I’ve whore’d myself off and given B&H some more advertising.. watch my video below!

I had fun making this in the 4 hours it took.  I guess it was good practice!  You can vote for the finalist who were chosen here.  My vote for the top 3 finalist out of the 15 that were chosen go to the following:

1.  ”The Magic Box”

2.  ”The Delivery Boys”

3.  ”Opening Up (B&H unboxed)”

I chose these 3 because they kept me entertained the entire time and I think they were done most creatively.  I really enjoyed “The Magic Box”, I have to admit it was better than mine!

Walt Disney

We don’t make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies.

Music Video (coming soon)

Here’s the only photo I have of me on set of a music video I shot a few weeks ago.  I’m currently in the editing process right now, look out for the video I’ll be posting in a couple of weeks!

Walter Murch

Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it to a higher level requires the same dedication and persistence that any art form does.

Who is Monkeys In Space and WHY should you SUPPORT their Kickstarter movement.. Find Out!

If you haven’t heard of Monkeys In Space yet, listen to them here.  If that isn’t enough then watch them here.  And if you just can’t get enough then go and support their Kickstarter!  Read more about the band below.

Photo by Pol Santos - PolsPhoto.com

We’re Monkeys In Space- a rock n’ roll foursome from San Diego, CA. For the last two and a half years we have pounded on the southern California rock scene, playing close to one hundred shows across the West coast. Fresh off off of our sophomore release, “Flying Under the Influence,” We are ready to hit the road, but but we need your help!

Monkeys In Space was founded in 2009 in a 10×10 room dubbed “the box.” Since those early jam sessions, the band has gained a strong so-cal following, earning spots on big name shows with Strung Out, Sprung Monkey, Shiny Toy Guns and more. Up until this point, all of the monkeys marketing & promotion, booking, recording and producing has been done DIY. By ourselves. Two and a half years in, Monkeys In Space is primed and ready to hit the road. That’s where you come in!

We head out March 1st, indefinitely. Over the last few months, the band has been living off of nothing and stashing cash – we saved up enough money for the purchase of a ’94 bus, tore out the seats, and have been in the process of transforming it into a home on wheels. The more money the band can raise, the longer we stay rocking!

Your generous donations will help us with our expenses out on the road. Every cent we raise will be put directly back into the “Flying Under the Influence” tour  including gas, food, maybe an occasional hotel shower here and there, maintenance on the bus (hopefully not), and maybe to bail Josh out of jail…

Seriously though, we know times are tough and hate to have to ask for money, but here we are. If you can’t donate, we understand, but please take the time to check us out online – turn up your speakers as loud as they go, and rock out with us! For those who can spare a few bucks, check out our awesome incentives and thank you, thank you, THANK YOU. We are all Monkeys. We’ll see you soon!

For more information on us and to stream all of Flying Under the Influence (for free) visit  us at www.reverbnation.com/monkeysinspace

-via Kickstarter

MI$ is a band I’ve supported since they’ve formed, I’ve created some videos you may have seen to help spread their music.  As their first backer on this project I ask at least give them the minimum pledge, they deserve it!

Every film I’ve watched in 2011

Last year I tried to come up with a top 10 of 2010 but I realized it wasn’t fair for me to judge because there were too many films I had not seen.  Also included in that post I listed all of the films I watched in 2010.  In 2010 I watched 215 films, this year I surpassed that with a total of 242 films watched.  Below is a list of all the movies I watched in 2011, there might be some movies listed twice – I’m too lazy to check!

Every film I’ve watched in 2011 (may have left out a few) Conversations with Other Woman, True Grit (1969), Wild Strawberries, Persona, Another Woman, Close, Black Hawk Down, Somewhere, You Don’t Know Jack, Smiles of a Summer Night, Hour of the Wolf, Mean Streets, The Virgin Spring, Knife in the Water, Burn!, Howl, Full Metal Jacket, The Patriot, The Red Balloon, My Best Friend’s Birthday, Bonnie and Clyde, Kick-Ass, Holy Rollers, Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child, The Universe of Keith Haring, Exit Through the Gift Shop, The Thorn in the Heart, Two Days, The Fountain, Garden State, Knight and Day, Rosemary’s Baby, Enter the Void, Blow, The Cutting Edge, Heat, On the Waterfront, We Own the Night, It’s Complicated, The Social Network Behind The Scenes Documentary, The Family Stone, Dogtooth, The Fall, City Lights, Home, Irreversible, Some Kind of Monster, Catfish, The Social Network, George Washington, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Road Trip, The Alphabet, Couples Retreat, Taken, “Basic Brown, Basic Blue”, 127 Hours, Goodfellas, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, The Next Three Days, The Pledge, Shoot the Piano Player, Scarlet Street, Girl Walks Into A Bar, The Woman in the Window, High Noon, Insomnia, “Darling, Do You Love Me?”, Once Upon A Time In America, Waste Land, You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger, Rabbit Hole, The Fighter, Blue Valentine, Cleo from 5 to 7, The King’s Speech, Casino Jack, Cyrus, Jackass 3, 30 for 30: Muhammed and Larry, Confessions of Robert Crumb, Our City Dreams, Bob Le Flambeur, Army of Shadows, Alphaville, Charade, Peeping Tom, Inside Job, Accepted, Killer’s Kiss, Fear and Desire, Destino, Manhattan Murder Mystery, War of the Worlds, “I Love You, Beth Cooper”, Multi-Facial, Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat, Antichrist, Foo Fighters: Back & Forth, The Asphalt Jungle, No Man of Her Own, Doodlebug, Escape to Nowhere, The Cameraman’s Revenge, The Thomas Crown Affair, The Pixar Story, Ricochet, Wild At Heat, National Security, A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy, Freiheit, What’s a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This?, La Jetée, Les diaboliques, Milton Glaser: To Inform and Delight, Film Socialisme, L’Avventura, Il Grido, A Woman Is a Woman, Wrong Turn, Starz Inside: Fantastic Flesh: The Art of Make-Up EFX, 30 for 30: Jordan Rides the Bus, “Paris, Texas”, Little Children, Raging Bull, “John Carpenter: Fear Is Just the Beginning… The Man and His Movies”, Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream, Nights of Cabiria, Strictly Background, Starsky & Hutch, Sugar Hill, China Moon, Hot Tub Time Machine, Capturing Reality: The Art of Documentary, American: The Bill Hicks Story, William S. Burroughs: A Man Within, Alice Neel. Waiting for Hockney, Picasso and Braque Go to the Movies, Pie in the Sky: The Brigid Berlin Story, Derailed, Buffalo ’66, The Key to Reserva, Chato’s Land, Hispanic Hollywood: Then & Now, Transcendent Man, Into the Wild, The Human Experience, Pretty Woman, Nick Nolte: No Exit, Dinner for Schmucks, Cyrus, The Hip Hop Project, The Expendables, Casino, Cinema Verite, Meet the Rileys, Midnight Cowboy, Lady Blue Shanghai, Adaptation., The Last Samurai, Touch the Sound, Grizzly Man, Lost In The Garden of the World, The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn’t, Brief Encounter, Bronson, Trainspotting, Strand: Under the Dark Cloth, The Town, The Lovely Bones, The Kid Stays in the Picture, Chinatown, Carnal Knowledge, “Sleep, My Love”, Any Given Sunday, The Dark Knight, Dead End, Obscene, Fish Tank, The Windmill Movie, A Man And His Dog Out For Air, 69, Fuji, LMNO, Recreation, Swiff Army Knife with Rats and Pigeons, T.Z., Trial Balloons, Illegal Tender, The Greatest Movie Ever Sold, Laurel Canyon, The Loss of Nameless Things, Fog City Mavericks, The Panic of Needle Park, Manhattan, Clockers, Paid in Full, Stagecoach, S.W.A.T., The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia, Billy Madison, Nothing but Trouble, The Tree of Life, Breakaway, Mea Culpa, A Movie, Permian Strata, Aleph, Lost in Translation, Coffee and Cigarettes, Broken Flowers, Steal this Film, The Legend of Hallowdega, Room 666, Bill Cunningham New York, National Geographic: Inside North Korea, To the Limit, Following Sean, We Live In Public, Troll 2, Encounters at the End of the World, Touching the Void, Best Worst Movie, Ed Wood, American Movie, Restrepo, Menace II Society, Midnight in Paris, Sleeping Beauty, Black Swan, Red State, The Dude Abides, A Letter to Elia, Winnebago Man, Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Dead Man, Harlan Ellison: Dreams with Sharp Teeth, Scarface, The Godfather, Tabloid, Precious Images, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. (Count of 242)