Blade Runner: 2049 – a review
By Carl Wyant. The return to the screen of what many regard as the all time, quintessential dystopian futurist film, 35 years after the original, read more …Continue reading Blade Runner: 2049 – a review
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Jazz Filmmaking – An interview with David Nobay
Many have fallen for the charms of beautiful Byron Bay. Included in that list is acclaimed adman and poet, David Nobay; the founder and creative read more …Continue reading Jazz Filmmaking – An interview with David Nobay
WATCH: Blade Runner 2049: The final prequel short film
By Alexander McMahon. “Blade Runner 2022: Lights Out” plays an integral role in explaining an important part of Blade Runner history. The third short film read more …Continue reading WATCH: Blade Runner 2049: The final prequel short film
This is Gold: Straight to TV
Illustrations by Harry Gold. “It has just been announced that ‘Underworld’ – the Vampire movie franchise that kept Kate Beckinsale a household-ish name and tried read more …Continue reading This is Gold: Straight to TV
WATCH: Blade Runner 2049 – a second ‘prequel to the sequel’ short film drops
By Alexander McMahon. Ok, regular readers will know that we’re frothing with excitement about the new Blade Runner movie coming to cinemas very soon, not read more …Continue reading WATCH: Blade Runner 2049 – a second ‘prequel to the sequel’ short film drops
Wind River: The Western Resurrected
Film review by Carl Wyant. Indians Kill Cowboys…scrawled on the wall of a derelict house trailer, a meth den sitting on a remote patch of read more …Continue reading Wind River: The Western Resurrected
WATCH: Blade Runner 2049 – A prequel short film
By Alexander McMahon. I’ve made no secret to our regular readers that I’m eagerly anticipating the release of Blade Runner 2049, the follow-up to one read more …Continue reading WATCH: Blade Runner 2049 – A prequel short film
LOVING YOUR WORK: Bob Gordon’s finest
CTL is committed to showcasing TV ads that, (in our opinion), move, amuse or influence their audience. Here’s a Lebanese political campaign that is incredibly read more …Continue reading LOVING YOUR WORK: Bob Gordon’s finest
LOVING YOUR WORK: The Classics
In this new feature, we shine a light on work that we love from days gone by. The ones that touched us, moved us, or read more …Continue reading LOVING YOUR WORK: The Classics
360/VR: If it’s OK for Alejandro González Iñárritu, it’s OK for me.
By Nic Finlayson, Director at FINCH. Inarritu shows us that VR can be art house. It can be something very special. 360/VR is by no read more …Continue reading 360/VR: If it’s OK for Alejandro González Iñárritu, it’s OK for me.
Watch: Michel Gondry’s genius short film shot on iPhone 7
By Alexander McMahon. Apple have been pushing the ‘shot on iPhone’ agenda for a little while now, with wonderful French filmmaker Michel Gondry now joining read more …Continue reading Watch: Michel Gondry’s genius short film shot on iPhone 7
BLADE RUNNER 2049: The new trailer just dropped, and it looks AWESOME
Stop whatever it is that you’re doing and behold…for the official trailer for Blade Runner 2049 has just hit the internet, and promptly set the read more …Continue reading BLADE RUNNER 2049: The new trailer just dropped, and it looks AWESOME
FILM REVIEW: Faster & Furiouserer?…Nah
By Carl Wyant. In a contemporary post-Trump world, where perpetually lowering the bar has become de rigueur, this alliteratively fueled franchise is no great disappointment. read more …Continue reading FILM REVIEW: Faster & Furiouserer?…Nah
WATCH: Pitching French Films To Hollywood
By Alexander McMahon. Words cannot describe how much we love this short clip, which begs the questions – Would French cinema masterpieces stand a chance read more …Continue reading WATCH: Pitching French Films To Hollywood
INTO THE WILD: Creating film for Sydney’s most incredible cinema screen
By Jen Brewster. Filmmakers these days can often be presented with some unique challenges when producing content for different mediums, whether that be for the read more …Continue reading INTO THE WILD: Creating film for Sydney’s most incredible cinema screen
How important is music to film?
You can win an Oscar for music, (best original score, best original song). If the Academy Of Motion Pictures and Sciences feels it is necessary read more …Continue reading How important is music to film?
Binge watch all of the films from Tropfest 2017
It started with a simple idea: create a platform for a new wave of visual storytellers. Today, Tropfest is one of Australia’s most iconic cultural read more …Continue reading Binge watch all of the films from Tropfest 2017
Where Would Film Be Without Music?
What makes music great and how can I get some? Where would Jaws be without the ‘dum, dum, dum, dum, dum, dum, dum, dum’ score? read more …Continue reading Where Would Film Be Without Music?
Kuso trailer: Flying Lotus causes Sundance walkout with ‘grossest film ever made’
By Alexander McMahon. Remember the days when The Human Centipede was the grossest thing in cinema? Well, it looks Steve Ellison (AKA Flying Lotus) has read more …Continue reading Kuso trailer: Flying Lotus causes Sundance walkout with ‘grossest film ever made’
Tropfest announces 2017 finalists…and YES! Half of them are women.
TROPFEST, the world’s largest short film festival, has announced the 16 talented finalists for this year’s festival, and thank the lord, fifty percent of those read more …Continue reading Tropfest announces 2017 finalists…and YES! Half of them are women.
Raw: The NSFW trailer of the film that is so hardcore it made audiences faint
If you don’t like the sight of blood and gore, look away now. RAW is the feature film debut of director Julia Ducornau. When the read more …Continue reading Raw: The NSFW trailer of the film that is so hardcore it made audiences faint
I hear a train a’comin…Trainspotting 2 is almost here
By Alexander McMahon. Twenty years have gone by. Does it really feel like 20 years since you first witnessed the visual spectacle that was the read more …Continue reading I hear a train a’comin…Trainspotting 2 is almost here
DOPs take note – Cinema’s most beautiful shots of 2016
Regardless of your role in the business of film, isn’t there a point where cinema – for whatever reason – captured your heart and sent read more …Continue reading DOPs take note – Cinema’s most beautiful shots of 2016
GTFO! It’s the new Blade Runner!
LOOK AT IT! LOOK! If you are a fan of the moving image, you can’t possibly have missed the frankly incredible original Blade Runner, read more …Continue reading GTFO! It’s the new Blade Runner!
Soda Stream and Game of Thrones, together at last
Game of Thrones has become far more than an elongated tale of swords and stabbings, and its cultural impact has been exploited in a delightfully read more …Continue reading Soda Stream and Game of Thrones, together at last
Leni Riferstahl: A life in film
With the Games of the XXXI Olympiad Opening Ceremony this Saturday, CTL thought this might be an appropriate time to introduce you to “a new read more …Continue reading Leni Riferstahl: A life in film
The Power Of Film
Hitting raw nerves and pricking thin skins Below is the transcript of a television commercial that recently ran as part of the Australian National Parties’ read more …Continue reading The Power Of Film
The David Gribble ACS Interview
(Tom Selleck on the set of Jesse Stone) CTL.CO was fortunate enough to spend a few hours with David at his house on the lower North read more …Continue reading The David Gribble ACS Interview