For anyone thinking of entering this year’s 48 Hours Furious Filmmaking competition, here’s some inspiration. Three guys spent four days (and awesome amounts of brain skillz) recreating the D-Day storming of Omaha Beach. Here’s the trailer for the upcoming BBC special Bloody Omaha: [kml_flashembed movie=“http://www.youtube.com/v/WRS9cpOMYv0” width=“425” height=“350” wmode=“transparent” /] [Thanks to Boing Boing Gadgets]
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Dan Slevin is a New Zealand-based writer, broadcaster and consultant. He has reviewed cinema for the Capital Times weekly newspaper since September 2006, seeing and reviewing every film commercially released in Wellington in that time (except, for some reason, Flicka or Beverly Hills Chihuahua).
Dan is a regular contributor to Radio New Zealand National’s Nine to Noon programme and produces and co-hosts the weekly movie podcast, Cinematica.
In addition to being the finest swordsman in all France, he is also the meanest hombre west of the Pecos. He tweets here.
Why Funerals & Snakes? In Jean-Luc Godard’s Contempt (Le Mépris; 1963), Fritz Lang said of CinemaScope: “It’s only good for funerals and snakes.”