CHAOS CINEMA
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GREY MATTERS: Chaos Is Here To Stay
When a movie turns into the biggest film that isn’t a sequel or a remake in Earth’s history, you can bet that Hollywood is going to figure out what made that film such a billion dollar baby. That movie is Gary Ross’s "The Hunger Games," and the most easily utilized element of that film is something...
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VIDEO - Motion Studies #6: Chaos Cinema Part 1
This popular video, first featured on Press Play, explores how chaos reigns in the techniques used to make contemporary action films.
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MATTHIAS STORK INTERVIEW: JOHN BAILEY, cinematographer for GROUNDHOG DAY, THE BIG CHILL & THE PRODUCERS (2005)
I am familiar with your work as a cinematographer but I was unaware of your blog at the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) website which covers a wide variety of cinephiliac topics. How did your blog come about and how do you choose topics to write about?
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VIDEO ESSAY: Chaos Cinema, Part 3, Matthias Stork responds
Editor’s Note: Press Play is proud to debut part three in Matthias Stork’s Chaos Cinema, the latest installment in an ongoing consideration of a phenomenon that Stork defined in two video essays that ran on this site in August, 2011. His first two chapters touched off a firestorm of debate that’s st...
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Cinematographer John Bailey interviews Matthias Stork
Matthias Stork is more likely to be found hunched over a research desk at the Academy’s Margaret Herrick Library than in the darker recesses of a multiplex cinema playing the latest Hollywood visual effects laden action flick. He is, after all, a graduate student in the Department of Film and Televi...
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INTERVIEW: Matthias Stork talks about his two-part essay CHAOS CINEMA and himself
EDITOR'S NOTE: The following interview with Matthias Stork is being republished with permission from Empty Kingdom.
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STEVEN BOONE: Blind Fury: Notes on Chaos Cinema
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is yet another view concerning the Chaos Cinema debate. This time it's from writer-critic Steven Boone, who published this piece on his blog Big Media Vandalism. He warns the reader if you haven't watched both chapters of Matthias Stork's video essay ...
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MATT ZOLLER SEITZ: Why are so many modern action movies terrible?
EDITOR'S NOTE: Press Play is posting a column written for Salon by publisher Matt Zoller Seitz, about Matthias Stork's video essay "Chaos Cinema."
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VIDEO ESSAY: CHAOS CINEMA: The decline and fall of action filmmaking
Chaos Cinema Part 1 from Matthias Stork on Vimeo.
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