Author

Arthur Ryel-Lindsey

I use tildes liberally and have been known to bend over to tie other peoples' shoes. For more information about me, look here.

Recent

Drop Frame

On the Art and Culture of Film

drop frame, n. (drop frām) 1. video production: the type of time-based signifier in editing that compensates for the NTCS (North American) color coding system, which runs at 29.97 frames per second rather than the identified 30, by removing or "dropping" two frames every minute save the tenth. The PAL (European) "colour" system runs at exactly 30 frames per second and thus requires neither drop frame nor non-drop frame distinctions; it's just editing over there.

From the Old English verb dropa, meaning "to traverse the abyss betwixt one's self and ye blessed Earthe," and the Old Norse verb frama or fremja, meaning "Stop your looting, Vikings, and get back on the freakin' boat!"

As You Like It (Kenneth Branagh, 2007)

28 September 2007

This week in Slant Magazine: An adaptation that trades depth and cultural exploration for a few quick fireworks; it is not so much Kurosawa's Macbeth as Memoirs of a Geisha.

-~-

As You Like It (2007) ~ directed by Kenneth Branagh; produced by Branagh, Judy Hofflund and Simon Moseley; written by Branagh, based on the play by William Shakespeare; cinematography by Roger Lanser; production designed by Tim Harvey, with art direction by Christian Andersson; edited by Neil Farrell; original music by Patrick Doyle; costumes by Susannah Buxton; with Brian Blessed, Bryce Dallas Howard, Romola Garai, Adrian Lester, Alfred Molina and Kevin Kline ~ As You Like It, in stores Sept. 25.

Arthur Ryel-Lindsey » Comments: