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Steven Soderbergh
Personal blog · extension765.com/blogs/soderblogculturewriting
Steven Soderbergh writes Extension 765, a personal blog at extension765.com about culture and writing. Since 2014, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Raiders of the Lost Ark as a Black-and-White Silent Film (2014)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Steven Soderbergh's blog for his re-cuts of films, such as the Heaven's Gate edit, the intercut Psycho, and the black-and-white Raiders, cited as examples of directing craft.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- Raiders of the Lost Ark as a Black-and-White Silent Film (2014)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-02-19
- “I want you to watch this movie and think only about staging”2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-09-23
What Hacker News says?
A couple favorites of mine (more on the artistic/creative side than strict restructurings): Mad Max Black & Chrome: https://blackandchrome.wordpress.com Steven Soderbergh's "Psychos": http://extension765.com/sdr/15-psychos (Plus multiple other recuts he's done: http://extension765.com/sdr )
Comment linking /sdr
on “Show HN: Watch movies with the freedom to filter”Submitted Raiders of the Lost Ark as a Black-and-White Silent Film (2014) as a story · 104 points
HN discussionAs the page header suggests, this is the work of Steven Soderbergh. He went through a phase of doing several exercises along these lines and posting them to his blog. Intercutting the original Psycho with its remake. Recutting the famous flop Heaven's Gate entirely. He also recut 2001, but took it down at the request of the Kubrick estate. His Heaven's Gate is pretty good if you get the time to watch it - https://ex…
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on “Raiders of the Lost Ark as a Black-and-White Silent Film (2014)”Submitted “I want you to watch this movie and think only about staging” as a story · 100 points
HN discussionSoderbergh has a couple other re-cuts on his site, too. One intermixes the two PSYCHOs, the original and the shot-for-shot remake. The other is a radical re-cut of HEAVEN'S GATE. I've watched a couple hundred movies this year, but it's that HEAVEN'S GATE edit I keep coming back to in my head. I'm not really sure why (which is probably why). He somehow found the movie lurking inside the sprawling version that was rel…
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on ““I want you to watch this movie and think only about staging””Submitted Raiders as a story · 1 points
HN discussionHere's a well known director praising another well known director for his skill in laying out a movie: http://extension765.com/sdr/18-raiders
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on “Why don’t our brains explode at movie cuts?”Submitted Raiders as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSteven Soderbergh also wrote about it and made a black-and-white version to highlight Douglas Slocombe's work. He also replaced the sound with The Social Network's soundtrack: https://extension765.com/blogs/soderblog/raiders Sadly, the actual video seems to be gone. It was still online a couple of weeks ago :-/
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on “Raiders of the Lost Ark turns 40, and it’s still an unqualified masterpiece”Submitted What Steven Soderberg saw and read in 2016 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSteven Soderbergh made his own cut of Heaven's Gate and posted it on his blog. He says he was obsessed with the film and felt compelled to re-edit it. In my opinion, it's quite a good film in the re-cut form. As his note says at the beginning, "I acknowledge that what I have done with this film is both immoral and illegal." But you know, he's Soderbergh. https://extension765.com/blogs/soderblog/heavens-gate-the-bu...
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on “The death of the all-powerful director”
