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This is all actually a good thing.   It means talent like Lynch will flock to on demand services (Vimeo included) and small cinemas.   The big cinemas need to die a death and be taught a lesson.   People will grow bored of watching shit.   I say good riddance multiplexes and $10 popcorn & coke. Let the uninterested and bored sit at home and watch their pirated DVDs. Real film lovers are about to get the revolution they deserve.

Its funny you should mention Dogma 95, as i saw Festen on TV the other night & just thought it was sheer brilliance what you could achieve with a Sony Handycam! It seems we have become obsessed with sharpness/resolution in our digital HD world & completely lost sight of actually making films. I've been [slowly] piecing together a short film & my instincts always told me that the ideals of Dogma 95 should apply - didn't feel it necessary to follow their rules precisely, since they broke most of them anyway. Basically spend as little as you can, blag as much as possible (if you don't ask, you don't get) & use what you've got.    However, one thing does concern me & that has to do with why so many [apparent] filmmakers have cats & flowers!

Lynchie should move to France   at least Jean-Pierre Jeunet is getting his stuff shown

Spielberg and Lucas gave these dire predictions while speaking on a panel at the USC School of Cinematic Arts last week. According to them, major studios will decline and theatrical films will become a “niche market.” Spielberg said:       Spielberg said:   They’re  going for the gold, but that isn’t going to work forever. And as a result they’re getting narrower and narrower in their focus. People are going to get tired of it. They’re not going to know how to do anything else – There’s eventually going to be a big meltdown –There’s going to be an implosion where three or four or maybe even a half-dozen of these mega-budgeted movies go crashing into the ground and that’s going to change the paradigm again.

Jgharding and Andy, I'm on the same page as you.    So many movies are relying on the blockbuster special effects.  Dialogue?    I went to the new Superman movie last week -  I thought a combo of Avatar, Transformers and non comical Iron Man at times.  I'm not knocking the movie but Andy sums it up,  the new 'Man of Steel' film is designed for / aimed at fans of Transformers and Battleship........nuff said!! ;)     

Yeah Suckerpunch was just a wankfest graphics showreel.

the new 'Man of Steel' film is designed for / aimed at fans of Transformers and Battleship........nuff said!! don't forget Zack Snyder made 'Sucker Punch' where they spent all the money on 'girls and guns and explosions'  and forgot to write a script ... visually it was very entertaining like watching 4 long pop videos .....but no story - sadly Hollywood is like that now .....

Look at this scene from an older Superman movie. Look! They have a conversation! and there's a script!   WOAH!   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Bb78jAYhcc

Probably true! Crowdfunding he'd make the goal in an hour. 

Totally mate. Perception of value is warped by consumerism, and also a sense of entitlement has built up around our 'rights' as humans. Pay for education? Pay for health care? No, they're human rights. Nice sentiment but it isn't sustainable. People would sooner pay £500 for a phone than on a doctor or an education. They are happy to splurge endless amounts of cash on shoes, clothes, pizza, beer whenever it suits them. Priorities? Soon society will have to make a choice what kind of world we want to live in. If we don't want to live in a world where the biggest benefactors of capitalism are fashion chains and credit card companies not a thriving, large creative industry, we must change our perception of value. If we keep spending all our money on beer and iPhones, sooner or later you or your descendants will be working in factories. If you spend it on creative content, that industry grows. In that industry people have more fulfilling jobs - illustrators, writers, filmmakers, musicians, artists, journalists, bloggers. The west will be the manufacturing capital of the world when the Chinese society advances to the middle classes. That's my theory. Better get practicing those 12 hour circuit board assembly shifts.

some people will gladly spend more than $19 on Pizza and Beer .....yet complain when Andrew offers them a well written and informative book on one the hottest topics on this forum right now... and potentially the biggest free increase in HD footage quaility for many a years now ... - unreal !

After googling triangular bokeh, the only film I could find listed as an example for people to see is Zoo   It's about a man who died after being bummed by a horse.   I kid you not. And no clue as to what scene it's in.    So you'll have to watch it all.   http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/zoo/   And here's the source thread: http://www.reduser.net/forum/archive/index.php/t-12878.html   It is supposed to have wonderful cinematography though, so it's probably worth a watch.