Sightseers (2012)

- A murderous adventure

Haven't posted a review for a while but on vacation I got to know some really wacky people I have to tell you about. Their names are Tina and Chris, they are from England and have planned to go on a trip through the country with their caravan. What is supposed to be happy holidays is soon going down an unexpected road in this deadpan black comedy by director Ben Wheatley.

My Oscar Picks 2013

In November last year, Kathryn Bigelows "Zero Dark Thirty" still seemed to be the prime contender for "Best Picture". Almost every (American) critic loved it. But when the nominees were announced things changed by almost 180 degrees. Bigelow wasn't even nominated in the director's category and all the controversy surrounding her film weakened its chances. Lincoln then seemed to be the most obvious choice. But the last couple of weeks showed another unexpected trend. Ben Affleck's tense thriller "Argo" was sweeping most of the important awards including DGA, PGA, SAG and Critics Choice Award. However, Affleck is also not nominated as best director which is really odd since he got the appreciation by the Directors Guild. So if "Argo" wins best picture after all the recent buzz it would be only the fourth time that the corresponding director would not recieve a trophy. It's gonna be an interesting night this time.

So here are my guesses in all 24 categories:

Director's Diary - Part 4: All that remains

Hell, we thought this was gonna be fast and easy. Basically what we had to do were some detailshots, a couple of shots of the monitor while being in a chatroom and getting a call, and two tracking shots through the hallway. The one thing that we hadn't have a solution for so far, the thing we thought was the most difficult to do today, was then brillantly solved by our cameraman in a couple of minutes.

Director's Diary - Part 3: Lucky Number Three

On day three we had to film the most difficult scene in the film. It was a short tracking shot that was really hard to do for the cameraman as he had to go from a static position for some short lines of dialog to a free walk through the room following the protagonist out the door and around the corner with the camera in hand, all whilst regulating the focus at certain moments. It certainly wasn't looking "professional" in the end but for our purposes I thought it was fantastic. I was surprised of how good we got it.