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  1. MikeKardec

    Film Noir...in Color?

    There is an area, a 30 mi. radius extending from the intersection of Beverly and La Cienega in LA, that has been agreed upon as an acceptable "production zone" to the entertainment unions. Within the zone crews are expected to drive and house themselves. Outside the zone production companies...
  2. MikeKardec

    Film Noir...in Color?

    Two of my favorite films had been The Sweet Smell of Success for it's real life NYC locations and Touch of Evil for a last look at old Venice, CA. More commonly films of the era had only one or two "off the lot" days in the budget and only bigger budget films were allowed to "travel." You see...
  3. MikeKardec

    Film Noir...in Color?

    This is very true, I've always thought that the Noir look was an echo ... Americans picked it up from European silents, bounced it back across the pond as 1930s gangster films, caught the ball from the post war French and then made the great American Noirs of the late '40s and early '50s. But...
  4. MikeKardec

    Film Noir...in Color?

    It's actually easier to achieve gradients of darkness, shades of black, and reveal hidden details without increasing the amount of light or decreasing the amount of contrast, in color ... but it's expensive and requires a cinematographer who really knows their stuff. Tim Burton's "Sleepy...
  5. MikeKardec

    Star Trek

    I'm sure they never knew. They'd have gone nuts.
  7. MikeKardec

    Star Trek

    THAT'S HYSTERICAL! I'm sure they are reporting correctly but, just to put it in perspective, in a "net" deal what is taken out before the split is just as important (if not more) as the percentage itself. I'm guessing that Desilu and others had streams of revenue that branched off before the...
  8. MikeKardec

    Vintage Finds Renovating Vintage Homes

    When I was a kid a friend's father found a Browning .380 stashed in the attic. That's my favorite! I've only found a lot of vintage newspapers myself. The original wiring, bare copper though porcelain insulators, in my mother's Colorado home was pretty cool though.
  9. MikeKardec

    James Bond: Skyfall

    It's funny but a producer I knew since I was a child made the first film Connery did after quitting Bond (the first time). When he tried to raise money based on Connery's name is the US no one was interested. Connery in a spy movie they would accept but not in any other genre. He was told...
  10. MikeKardec

    Star Trek

    I was never a Trekie but I remember being pretty frustrated the day when I realized I'd seen every original ST episode in reruns. It must have been in the early '70s because we didn't have a TV when the show was first aired. Some thoughts about the business angle -- I used to know a guy who...
  11. MikeKardec

    Dunkirk - I've just seen it

    That's funny. In situations like that a film maker is often pretty happy to simply find something that doesn't look wrong. On the other hand I watched the Amazon series The Last Tycoon and amongst other things in this show set in the late 1930s there is a memorial service held on the studio...
  13. MikeKardec

    Dunkirk - I've just seen it

    From what I understand the Spitfire wing was absolutely cutting edge for the time, technology "stolen" from the Germans and based on their amazing glider work in the 1920s. If I remember correctly a young Canadian engineer learned the basics in Germany in the last moments before that sort of...
  14. MikeKardec

    What are you Writing?

    Good for you! I've never been able to say "safely in the hands of my agent!" but I get the meaning. I'm going back over some stuff that still has some time before editorial catches up with it and cleaning it up even more. I revised postscript for one book last night and all the colored lines...
  15. MikeKardec

    Barcelona

    Stillman's UHBs were more in residence when I was in art school on the West coast, though they'd never admit their backgrounds. I never met them in NYC either but, working in publishing, the mid town area was where I spent a lot of time. There's a bit of that in Disco too, I can remember...
  16. MikeKardec

    Barcelona

    I find myself nostalgic for some aspect of Metropolitan's NYC that I seem to have experienced when I worked there. I was never like those kids but I knew people like them. I enjoyed how the film gently poked fun at their lives and concerns. My era in NYC was the '80s and '90s which is around...
  17. MikeKardec

    Barcelona

    A brief review or just a reminder of the 1994 Whit Stillman film Barcelona. This rather dead pan comedy follows a pair of ex-patriot cousins as they explore their past, fall in and out of love with local women and eventually discover a future where they can coexist without friction. Ted is an...
  19. MikeKardec

    Wind River

    A very good "Western" written and directed by Taylor Sheridan, a long time actor and the writer of the excellent Sicrio and Hell or High Water. A death from exposure directly related to what seems to be a serious felony on an Indian reservation creates a situation where a young female FBI agent...
  20. MikeKardec

    Dunkirk - I've just seen it

    Just talking about this, not responding in a contrary manner; I just wonder what people in Germany thought was going to happen if they "won" in Russia. They didn't intend to treat the Russians better than the Soviets did and the Soviets fought their own people all through the 20s to tamp down...
  21. MikeKardec

    Dunkirk - I've just seen it

    I totally agree, but it seems like ONE of them had to be that stupid. I'm just experimenting with equal opportunity stupid. I've often heard that the Soviets helped prep Germany for the war, and the communists (though not necessarily the Russian communists) assumed that communism wasn't...
  22. MikeKardec

    Dunkirk - I've just seen it

    It's this sort of manic attitude, ego, arrogance, whatever, getting it's claws into both Germany and Japan that fascinates me to no end. The Japanese side was much more fatalistic, only (so far as recent reading has led me) having the slightest chance that the rapidly closing window of naval...
  23. MikeKardec

    Dunkirk - I've just seen it

    My experience has always been that Pacific vets never talked as much as European vets ... I got the feeling that it was uglier fighting for a longer period and that there was no retreat into the "mother cultures" of Europe between actions. This had meaning to many Americans and the English were...

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