Cutscenes is a column exploring—and blurring—the intersection of cinema and video games."On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit. And you then go for this limit and you touch this limit, and you think, 'Okay, this is the limit.' As soon as you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high."―Ayrton Senna, three-time Formula One championship-winning racing driverIn August 2009, the sprinter Usain Bolt ran the 100-meter-dash in 9.58 seconds, beating his own previous world record by 0.11 seconds. Around the same time, Reza Noubary, a professor of mathematics, computer science, and statistics at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, estimated that the ultimate fastest time that a human could run 100 meters would be 9.44 seconds. Assuming Noubary’s calculation was accurate,...
- 4/3/2023
- MUBI
The gaming event Awesome Games Done Quick will return for another round of speedruns on January 8, 2023. Two days before the annual gathering convenes, a new documentary about the speedrunning community will hit VOD platforms. Running With Speed will feature appearances from some of the fastest speed demons in gaming and will be narrated by the popular YouTuber Summoning Salt.
Running With Speed, from directors Patrick Lope and Nicholas Mross, is a feature docmentary that will hit Apple TV, Prime Video, Vudu, and Google Play on January 6. A description of the film emailed to Tubefilter explains that Running With Speed will tell “the fascinatingly peculiar story of the fastest video game players in the world,” with a focus on some of the community’s most prominent events and characters.
Summoning Salt told Tubefilter that he met the directors of Running With Speed in 2019 and signed on as the film’s narrator a few months later.
Running With Speed, from directors Patrick Lope and Nicholas Mross, is a feature docmentary that will hit Apple TV, Prime Video, Vudu, and Google Play on January 6. A description of the film emailed to Tubefilter explains that Running With Speed will tell “the fascinatingly peculiar story of the fastest video game players in the world,” with a focus on some of the community’s most prominent events and characters.
Summoning Salt told Tubefilter that he met the directors of Running With Speed in 2019 and signed on as the film’s narrator a few months later.
- 12/23/2022
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
The festival’s 25th edition will feature a contribution from Ai Weiwei and competition titles including Whiplash, Nightcrawler and Foxcatcher.
The Stockholm International Film Festival (Nov 5-16) is to present its Achievement Award to Us actress Uma Thurman.
The Kill Bill star will will visit Stockholm to receive the prestigious Bronze Horse and meet the audience during an exclusive “Face2Face”.
Thurman will also take part in the inauguration ceremony, which will include the unveiling of an ice sculpture by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei.
Weiwei was a Stockholm jury member last year but since he wasn’t allowed to leave China, he sent an empty chair named ”The Chair for Non-attendance” as symbol of his absence.
He is still not allowed to leave China so will send a design that will be portrayed in the form of a large ice sculpture symbolising this years’ Spotlight theme - Hope.
Brazil
The festival will focus this year on Brazil...
The Stockholm International Film Festival (Nov 5-16) is to present its Achievement Award to Us actress Uma Thurman.
The Kill Bill star will will visit Stockholm to receive the prestigious Bronze Horse and meet the audience during an exclusive “Face2Face”.
Thurman will also take part in the inauguration ceremony, which will include the unveiling of an ice sculpture by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei.
Weiwei was a Stockholm jury member last year but since he wasn’t allowed to leave China, he sent an empty chair named ”The Chair for Non-attendance” as symbol of his absence.
He is still not allowed to leave China so will send a design that will be portrayed in the form of a large ice sculpture symbolising this years’ Spotlight theme - Hope.
Brazil
The festival will focus this year on Brazil...
- 10/16/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Who are bitcoins for? If you go by stereotype, it's narcissistic libertarians who see themselves as visionaries punished for their daring individuality by a tyrannical government whose raison d'être is to stamp out personal freedom wherever it can because, uh, for the heck of it, I guess. Nicholas Mross confirms the cliché in The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin, a circle-jerk for bitcoin zealots who speak primarily in self-deluded Silicon Valley PR drivel. Mross's brother Dan is described by his wife as "chang[ing] the world and mak[ing] it better" because he hosts a bitcoin server in his basement. "It's the smartest people in the room that are the most excited about this," declare the Winklevoss twins, who just happen to own 1 percent of all bitcoins. ...
- 10/1/2014
- Village Voice
International and documentary competitions include The Skeleton Twins, ‘71 and The Look of Silence. A total of 17 world premieres secured for the festival, which has received a budget boost.
The 10th Zurich Film Festival (Sept 25 – Oct 5) has revealed its full line-up, which comprises 145 features – up from 122 last year – from 29 countries.
Co-director Nadja Schildknecht revealed a rise in budget for the festival as well as growth in anticipated guest numbers.
“This year, we expect some 500 guests (previous year 450) from around the world to accompany their films,” she said.
“And the budget has increased accordingly to CHF6.9m ($7.4m) (previous year CHF6.1m/$6.5m).”
As previously announced, Tate Taylor’s James Brown biopic Get On Up will open the festival on Sept 25. The closing film has yet to be revealed.
International competition
The International Feature Film Competition includes 14 titles, some of which have received critical acclaim at previous festivals such as Yann Demange’s action thriller ‘71, which debuted at the...
The 10th Zurich Film Festival (Sept 25 – Oct 5) has revealed its full line-up, which comprises 145 features – up from 122 last year – from 29 countries.
Co-director Nadja Schildknecht revealed a rise in budget for the festival as well as growth in anticipated guest numbers.
“This year, we expect some 500 guests (previous year 450) from around the world to accompany their films,” she said.
“And the budget has increased accordingly to CHF6.9m ($7.4m) (previous year CHF6.1m/$6.5m).”
As previously announced, Tate Taylor’s James Brown biopic Get On Up will open the festival on Sept 25. The closing film has yet to be revealed.
International competition
The International Feature Film Competition includes 14 titles, some of which have received critical acclaim at previous festivals such as Yann Demange’s action thriller ‘71, which debuted at the...
- 9/11/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
What do you think about Bitcoin, the new digital currency that’s slowly making its way across the country? If you’re still wondering about Bitcoin, what you can use it for, and just what it is (because we’re mostly still using paper money), check out upcoming film “The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin.” “The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin” is directed by Nicholas Mross and features (and is narrated by) Daniel Mross. The film also features the CEO and Founder of BitInstant Charlie Shrem, CEO and founder of Tradehill Jered Kenna, director of FinCEN Jennifer Shasky Calvery, CEO of Mt. Gox Mark Karpeles, Bitcoin entrepreneur Erik Voorhees and Bitcoin investors and [ Read More ]
The post The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin Analyzes the World’s New Digital Currency appeared first on Shockya.com.
The post The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin Analyzes the World’s New Digital Currency appeared first on Shockya.com.
- 9/9/2014
- by monique
- ShockYa
Exclusive: Gravitas Ventures has acquired worldwide rights to documentary The Rise And Rise Of Bitcoin by putting its virtual money where its mouth is: The distributor sealed the deal in units of bitcoin and will sell the film online accepting the controversial “cryptocurrency.” The feature-length film examines the global currency that was created in 2009 as the future of digital transaction, as seen through the eyes of a computer programmer who becomes obsessed with all things bitcoin.
In The Rise And Rise Of Bitcoin, director Nicholas Mross tracks his own bitcoin-enthusiast brother from his Pittsburgh basement bitcoin-mining operation as well as other figures in the developing online movement. Despite its stigma as the preferred currency for internet criminals engaged in money laundering and black marketeering, bitcoin usage has transcended the tech community and entered the mainstream economy; Dell, Dish Network, and Expedia accept payments in the format, and today PayPal announced...
In The Rise And Rise Of Bitcoin, director Nicholas Mross tracks his own bitcoin-enthusiast brother from his Pittsburgh basement bitcoin-mining operation as well as other figures in the developing online movement. Despite its stigma as the preferred currency for internet criminals engaged in money laundering and black marketeering, bitcoin usage has transcended the tech community and entered the mainstream economy; Dell, Dish Network, and Expedia accept payments in the format, and today PayPal announced...
- 9/9/2014
- by Jen Yamato
- Deadline
In Nicholas Mross' first documentary feature film "The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin," the truth behind the now iconic program geared towards global economy is dissected, revealing its origins, prominence, volatility, criminal implications and ultimately its ever-evolving nature that made the subject so difficult for Mross to capture in his film. Tell us about yourself. I am a 30-year-old filmmaker born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pa. From a very young age, I've enjoyed all kinds of movies, and after college I decided to pursue my passion for film. I have a positive outlook on life and very much enjoy the people I meet through different projects. What was your biggest challenge in completing this project? Bitcoin is extremely complex and when I first began filming, I really didn't know much about it. My biggest challenge in making this project was learning the ins and outs of Bitcoin, so that...
- 4/14/2014
- by Ziyad Saadi
- Indiewire
Top brass at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival (Tff) have announced the line-up for the 2014 Tribeca Talks and Tribeca Innovation Week’s four-day Future Of Film series.
The Tribeca Talks panels and events will run during the 13th edition of Tff that runs from April 16-27.
Tff also unveiled four new documentaries that will receive their world premiere at the festival: Now – In The Wings On A World Stage, The Rise And Rise Of Bitcoin, Compared To What: The Improbable Journey Of Barney Frank and Champs, as well as Food Chains, Supermensch, and the tenth anniversary screening of Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind.
Each will screen as part of the Tribeca Talks: After The Movie series.
This year’s series incudes the Tribeca Talks: Directors Series featuring on-stage conversations with Ron Howard and Lee Daniels, as well as Tribeca Talks: Industry Conversations and Tribeca Talks: Pen To Paper exploring subjects related to screenwriting.
“With these talks...
The Tribeca Talks panels and events will run during the 13th edition of Tff that runs from April 16-27.
Tff also unveiled four new documentaries that will receive their world premiere at the festival: Now – In The Wings On A World Stage, The Rise And Rise Of Bitcoin, Compared To What: The Improbable Journey Of Barney Frank and Champs, as well as Food Chains, Supermensch, and the tenth anniversary screening of Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind.
Each will screen as part of the Tribeca Talks: After The Movie series.
This year’s series incudes the Tribeca Talks: Directors Series featuring on-stage conversations with Ron Howard and Lee Daniels, as well as Tribeca Talks: Industry Conversations and Tribeca Talks: Pen To Paper exploring subjects related to screenwriting.
“With these talks...
- 3/17/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Top brass at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival (Tff) have announced the line-up for the 2014 Tribeca Talks and Tribeca Innovation Week’s four-day Future Of Film series.
The Tribeca Talks panels and events will run during the 13th edition of Tff that runs from April 16-27.
Tff also unveiled four new documentaries that will receive their world premiere at the festival: Now – In The Wings On A World Stage, The Rise And Rise Of Bitcoin, Compared To What: The Improbable Journey Of Barney Frank and Champs, as well as Food Chains, Supermensch, and the tenth anniversary screening of Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind.
Each will screen as part of the Tribeca Talks: After The Movie series.
This year’s series incudes the Tribeca Talks: Directors Series featuring on-stage conversations with Ron Howard and Lee Daniels, as well as Tribeca Talks: Industry Conversations and Tribeca Talks: Pen To Paper exploring subjects related to screenwriting.
“With these talks...
The Tribeca Talks panels and events will run during the 13th edition of Tff that runs from April 16-27.
Tff also unveiled four new documentaries that will receive their world premiere at the festival: Now – In The Wings On A World Stage, The Rise And Rise Of Bitcoin, Compared To What: The Improbable Journey Of Barney Frank and Champs, as well as Food Chains, Supermensch, and the tenth anniversary screening of Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind.
Each will screen as part of the Tribeca Talks: After The Movie series.
This year’s series incudes the Tribeca Talks: Directors Series featuring on-stage conversations with Ron Howard and Lee Daniels, as well as Tribeca Talks: Industry Conversations and Tribeca Talks: Pen To Paper exploring subjects related to screenwriting.
“With these talks...
- 3/17/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Riddle me this. XLrator Media have kindly revealed the new trailer for the John O. Hartman and Nicholas Mross co-directed thriller 'Riddle' which arrives on Video on Demand tomorrow in the Us. And the two biggest highlights of the flick that caught our eye was of course the appearance of 'CSI' and 'Bad Meat' hottie Elisabeth Harnois (below) and the sexy Diora Baird ('The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning', '30 Days of Night: Dark Days'). Harnois plays Holly, a college student attempting to find her missing brother in the town of Riddle, Pennsylvania. Also on board are Val Kilmer playing the town of 'Riddle's sheriff whilst Baird plays his daughter. William Sadler, Ryan Malgarini, Bryan Lillis and Ben Bledsoe all co-star in the release. Check the trailer below....
- 1/9/2013
- Horror Asylum
Tagline: "A mysterious town, a deadly secret." XLrator Media will distribute directors John O. Hartman and Nicholas Morss' Riddle. This film will be available on video-on-demand, DVD and Blu-Ray beginning January 10th. In the film, Holly (Elisabeth Harnois) becomes ensnared in a town cover-up, that involves a local psychiatric hospital. Something or someone awaits Holly in the bowels of this dilapidated building. And, a whole town wants to keep this building's secret in mystery. Fans of suspense can view the film's official trailer below. The clip shows Holly searching for her brother. Nathan (Ryan Malgarini) disappears and Holly will stop at nothing to find him. View the reel for Riddle below. Release Date: January 10th, 2013 (Video-on-demand) and February 12th, 2013 (DVD, Blu-Ray). Directors: John O. Hartman and Nicholas Mross. Writers: Brian Hartman, John O. Hartman, Nicholas Mross, and Cole Stamm. Cast: Elisabeth Harnois, Val Kilmer, Diora Baird,...
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- 1/8/2013
- by noreply@blogger.com (Michael Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
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