Tag: film
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Inventing Indiana Jones
I found a wonderful little treasure — at least for all film buffs: A transcribed conversation from 1978, in which George Lucas is pitching Steven Spielberg and Lawrence Kasdan his ideas for a new movie character and a new movie. The character would later become ‘Indiana Jones’, and the movie ‘Raiders of the Lost Arc’.…
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My latest Animation Film: Italian-German Culture Clash
I couldn’t even say what triggered this — but one day I thought I had to deal with the horrible German notion of putting pineapple on pizza, from an Italian point of view. The result is the latest animation film on my YouTube channel MOPALAB: Interestingly, soon after I had started to work on this…
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When a Japanese Monster Movie Gives Hollywood A Sucker Punch
In May, I wrote about my experience with Apple’s TV+ service, and as part of that, I talked about how horrible I thought their TV show “Monarch — Legacy of Monsters” was. Here is what I had to say about it: At some point I had to stop watching because it was simply too absurd.…
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The Last Leg of A Filmmaking Journey
I am typing this on the train, en route to Amsterdam, to see my filmmaker friend Martijn Veldhoen. He will help me with the final sound mix of my film ‘Purpose’. Martijn has made many documentary (mostly short) films, many of which have won prizes at film festivals. He is a fairly unique filmmaker in…