I know we're not anywhere near film compositions, but iTunes is offering "Hotel Chevalier," a short film by Wes Anderson for free. It's meant to be a prologue to The Darjeeling Limited film, but as a standalone, contains some fantastic use of color and shot composition. The one section that really caught my eye (and sort of fits with our current theme of transformation in class) is around 3:30 with the horizontal moving camera right after Natalie Portman enters.
As a warning, there is language and nudity (nothing terribly graphic) so if you intend to download, be aware.
I'm sharing this now-rather than later-in the off chance that they stop offering this for free.
Here is the link to get it (provided you have iTunes installed).
1 comment:
Thanks for the link Nick -- we *almost* got to stepping into moving images during our last class with a peek at Eisenstein's Potemkin, so I think it's okay to open Pandora's Box to the class.
I will check this out.
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