A Tour of The Royal Tenenbaums, Wes Anderson's Only Film Shot in NYC

A Tour of The Royal Tenenbaums, Wes Anderson's Only Film Shot in NYC

Throughout his career, Wes Anderson has set each of his films in an idiosyncratic and highly stylized world. Yet, only one of his eight films is set in NYC: The Royal Tenebaums, widely considered his masterpiece. In celebration of Wes Anderson’s latest film The Grand Budapest Hotel, we present eight NYC film locations featured in The Royal Tenenbaums.

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1001 movies you must watch before you die in one 10-minute video

1001 movies you must watch before you die in one 10-minute video

This 10-minute supercut video includes all films listed in Steven Jay Schneider’s 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die—plus 215 extra motion pictures. It took its creator—Jonathan Keoghone year to finish. Can you recognize all of them?

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An Interview with Geoff McFetridge on the Interfaces from Her

An Interview with Geoff McFetridge on the Interfaces from Her

Not even those who worked on the Oscar-nominated film Her are sure exactly how near we are to the near-future depicted in the movie. "I think the idea of the near-future is that you can’t predict the pace of technology," says graphic designer Geoff McFetridge, who designed the interfaces for the film.

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How Typography Set 2001: A Space Odyssey in the Sci-Fi Future

How Typography Set 2001: A Space Odyssey in the Sci-Fi Future

Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey is visually stunning. And the closer you examine, the more exquisite details you’ll find. That’s what Dave Addey has done in his in-depth, scene-by-scene examination of how this cinema masterpiece used typography to create a familiar yet still distant future.

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Watch One of Cinema’s Wildest Drug Trips in a Minute of Crazy Animation

The folks at 1A4STUDIO have hit most of the main sci-milestones with their animation distillation, like A New Hope, The Matrix, Back to the Future, and Aliens. But now they’re tackling a whole different kind of weird. Behold, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas in just 60 seconds of chaos.

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The World’s First Handheld Movie Camera Was Shaped Like a Gun

You may have expected the first ever portable motion picture camera to be housed in some form of stuffy box—but in fact it was shaped like a rifle, which lends a new accuracy to the idea of shooting some film. More »

Sky Movies app finally arrives on Android

Sky Movies app finally arrives on Android

Sky’s Movies app may be old hat for iOS users, but the companion experience has only just arrived on Android. By wielding the software, folks can look up what’s airing across the network’s film channels, read up on information about flicks and look up theater listings. Users can also catch streaming movies with the application (if a device is registered with Sky Go, of course), and even remotely set their Sky+ HD box to record. Hit the bordering source link for the the full feature list and download.

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Anatomy of a Movie Trailer

If you’ve ever wondered how film makers chop up and reassemble a two hour film into a two minute trailer, you need wonder no longer. The New York Times has visualized the contents of five recent film trailers, so you can see how they’re put together. More »

Hundreds of Full-Length Movies Are Reappearing on YouTube

The Wall Street Journal points out an interesting trend: loads of illegally uploaded, full-length movies are finding their way on to YouTube, and studios are doing nothing about it. More »

Watch This Trailer For The Pirate Bay Documentary

The Pirate Bay. It’s a site that lives in infamy, perhaps more than any other site on the history. Lots of powerful people are gunning to take it down, but somehow it’s managed to stay up the whole time. It’s a fascinating story, so this upcoming documentary on the topic is bound to be good. I mean, just watch the trailer. More »