John Carpenter’s movie The Thing is but the most famous example of a lineage of remakes and “inspired by” short stories and movies. And claymation movies starring penguins.

Film: Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.: The Thing (U.S.A., 2011)
The movie The Thing is a remake/prequel of John Carpenter’s 1982 movie The Thing, which is a remake of a 1951 movie called The Thing From Another World, which is based on the short story Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell. I doubt Campbell could have [...]

(Kuva: Vesa Sammalisto)
Kirjoitin Ylioppilaslehteen artikkelin brändielokuvista. Se ilmestyi lehden numerossa 13/2010. Juttu on luettavissa täällä.

Kulttuurivihkojen sivuilla on lehteen kirjoittamani artikkeli Nikolai Dreidenin elokuvasta Enkelin sivualttari.

Film: Dominic Sena: Whiteout (U.S.A. 2009)
Whiteout is an Antarctic crime movie based on the comic book by Greg Rucka. Its a faithful yet plodding adaptation, combining good Antarctic detail with a leaden script and workmanlike direction.
The story is about an U.S. Marshal posted to the American base at the South Pole. A man is discovered [...]

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Check out this short film about dating in the age of the Internet. It’s called Turing Machine. One of the people who made it is the photographer Katri Lassila, a good friend. It’s in Finnish.

I recently read the book Nuoren toimittajan eloonjäämisopas (The Young Journalists’ Survival Guide) by the journalists Anni Lintula and Meri Valkama. I was surprized how little it reflected my own experiences. It wasn’t too long ago when I was a young journalist too.
Many colleagues have commented that this is a book that makes even professional, [...]

(Kuva: Gamer)
Tällä viikolla Tiltin saitilla julkaistiin mun arvosteluni pelistä Wolfenstein ja konsolista PS3 Slim. Ne voi tsekata myös Tiltin Web-TV:stä. Tilt-blogissani Parempia pelejä aiheena oli videopelielokuva Gamer.

At the Pyongyang Film Studios in North Korea they have permanent movie sets for a South Korean town of the Korean War era, a Japanese town, etc. The buildings feature posters representing the North Korean artists’ idea of what advertisements, shop signs and movie posters look like in the South.
(All photos by Juhana Pettersson.)

There’s a lot of strange stuff on Pirate Bay. This looks promising:
Yoga and Meditation: Pathway to Destruction - Documentary
Here’s the uploader’s explanation. I highlighted the best parts:
Yoga’s practice in everyday situations — is it dangerous? Eastern meditation and yoga are being used by vibrant young businessmen, athletes and children for achieving better, healthier living. How [...]

I watched the Dennis Hopper movie Out of the Blue recently. The best part is this wonderful opening monologue where Linda Manz talks about punk.

The sequence is sampled in the Primal Scream song Kill All Hippies:

Documentary: Norbert Wu: Under Antarctic Ice (U.S.A. 2001)
This is an hour-long documentary following the photographer Norbert Wu as he’s taking pictures for his book, also called Under Antarctic Ice. Content-wise this is a bit vacuous, but the images are perfect and gorgeous. Everything in the documentary is beautiful, from the impressive underwater splendor to the [...]

I saw the animated short The Cat Came Back when I was maybe ten years old. I loved it. I used to go around singing the chorus “The cat came back, the cat came back”, over and over again.
Unlike many other things I have fond childhood memories of, this is exactly as good as I [...]

Kirjoitin Kumppani-lehteen artikkelin israelilaisen Ari Folmanin elokuvasta Waltz With Bashir. Juttu löytyy täältä.