Might be apocryphal but I like to think it’s true:
“Márquez told [Harvey] Weinstein that if he, and director Giuseppe Tornatore, wanted the rights to One Hundred Years of Solitude they were the men for the job. But there was one catch: ‘We must film the entire book, but only release one chapter – two minutes long – each year, for 100 years,’ Weinstein said.”
Source, via Mental Floss.
This is how you do cinematic advertising:
This ad ran before Interstellar and it was ace. When’s the last time you remembered an ad you saw before the movie?
Sohei Nishino creates ‘Diorama Maps’: photomontages of cities ranging from skyline photos down to individual people. Each contains thousands of photos taken over months in each city and the small section from Istanbul below really shows the shot diversity:
I’m pretty sure that’s the Rüstem Paşa Mosque and the New Mosque then you’ve got people down by the river, wide shots of traffic, a cat…
If you’re in London at Michael Hoppen Contemporary you can see Berlin, New Delhi, Amsterdam, Jerusalem, Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo and Bern.
(via The Fox is Black)
Someone tweeted this photo back on Remembrance Day, I think it was captioned “The most badass war photo ever” or similar and it is a pretty impressive shot. It appears to be a reindeer in the middle of a warzone looking towards the action, and even better this photo was taken during Operation Renntier (Reindeer), pretty amazing, no?
Well actually yeah, no. Though saying it’s a fake seems harsh because it’s still a great photo, it’s just a composite.
Yevgeny Khaldei was a Red Army photographer during the second World War. During the bombing of Operation Renntier:
…a reindeer (later named Yasha) came out to be with the soldiers–the shellshocked creature didn’t want to be alone. During one of the air raids,Khaldei took the reindeer shot, but it wasn’t as dramatic as he assumed, so he later superimposed British Hawker Hurricanes, flown by RAF pilots to relieve Murmansk, and an exploding bomb to form a composite image.
Khaldei is best known for this photo of the Soviet flag raised over the Reichstag in Berlin but this is also a fake, in that it’s a reconstruction, not the original event (much the like the image it tried to emulate).
First review puts it at a 9.5 so I may end up eating my words.