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We are reaching the end of 2012, and it’s been another interesting year of movies. There are still quite a few I haven’t seen myself that I would like to before the year is over, but if you’ve been wondering what you might have missed so far this year, there is a terrific mashup that has been making the rounds that takes clips from the trailers of films from 2012 edited together in a way that actually provides some extended meaning. Check out the video below: More »

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It’s no secret that many directors have “signature shots,” or shots that they tend to use (or even overuse) in their films. Vimeo user kogonada has edited together three brilliant mashups of some of the signature shots of Stanley Kubrick, Quentin Tarantino, and Wes Anderson. As a community of filmmakers, I think we can all agree there is something to be learned from how the greats make use of these shots. Hit the jump for the first video, which shows Kubrick’s use of the One-Point Perspective: More »

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An oldie but goodie, the Eclectic Method’s Tarantino Mixtape recently won a Vimeo Community Choice award. I’ve seen EM “perform” live, and their extreme mashups of pop culture artifacts, projected onto several screens at once, can cross the wires in your brain. Whether this is a good or bad thing is up for debate, but Tarantino’s own oeuvre owes heavily to the art of the mashup, and thus Eclectic Method’s remix seems a fitting tribute: More »