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Julie Turnock

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Professor of Media and Cinema Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana. Film Scholar, s/vfx. Author of Plastic Reality and The Empire of Effects. Director, Roger Ebert Center for Film Studies, UIUC.

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There's an Intelligensia about 10min walk away, on E Randolph

04.04.2025 13:02 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Harriet Hayward, a character from Twin Peaks, writing poetry in her teenage bedroom.

Harriet Hayward, a character from Twin Peaks, writing poetry in her teenage bedroom.

David Lynch dreamed up my (HS age) doppleganger Harriet Hayward, making me feel like I was a little part of the Twin Peaks universe...

17.01.2025 01:26 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

I haven't seen the new one for various reasons, but I've seriously been wondering, it this anything? Not purposefully, I assume, but maybe Kracauer can make this version more interesting...

03.01.2025 00:26 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

From The Northman to Hitler?

03.01.2025 00:18 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I'm watching the Flame of New Orleans today. Marlene Dietrich plays (fake) twins!

01.01.2025 19:01 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

So great to hear, thanks!

19.12.2024 20:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Coconut Caramel Tart Recipe Eating this tart is like biting into a grown-up Girl Scout cookie A crisp chocolate shortbread shell is filled with a creamy, slightly nutty frangipane, and topped with coconut caramel, drizzled choco...

I just made this one: cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1026...

27.11.2024 00:59 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Jon M. Chu has made one of the great musicals of our time, a phantasmagorical coming-of-age journey into a land of wide-eyed enchantment, wild dance moves, and colorful, magic bubbles. That movie was called Step Up 3D, and it came out in 2010. Though dismissed by critics at the time, that dance-off sequel feels more like a masterpiece with each passing year, an early demonstration of its director’s ability to spin new worlds through movement and mood.

Jon M. Chu has made one of the great musicals of our time, a phantasmagorical coming-of-age journey into a land of wide-eyed enchantment, wild dance moves, and colorful, magic bubbles. That movie was called Step Up 3D, and it came out in 2010. Though dismissed by critics at the time, that dance-off sequel feels more like a masterpiece with each passing year, an early demonstration of its director’s ability to spin new worlds through movement and mood.

From Bilge Ebiri's review on Vulture. 100% Co-sign!
(Haven't seen Wicked, no opinion)

21.11.2024 18:51 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

coffee!

18.11.2024 00:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you!

14.11.2024 02:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Awesome, I'm honored!

14.11.2024 02:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Book cover for Julie Turnock's The Empire of Effects: ILM and the Rendering of Realism

Book cover for Julie Turnock's The Empire of Effects: ILM and the Rendering of Realism

Since I suddenly have a jillion followers, why not do some self-promotion?

13.11.2024 20:54 👍 22 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0

Ah, thanks for letting me know

12.11.2024 15:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hi all! Just catching up with new follows. Can anybody tell me what starter pack I'm (apparently) part of?

11.11.2024 01:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0

Thank you!

06.02.2024 16:40 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

beforesandafters.com/2023/11/22/b...

22.11.2023 22:36 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The @wyliecovfxbreakdown reel from The Killer is indeed impressive. But, the work is not at all unusual for the kind of (excellent) invisible effects that VFX houses do all the time. Again, just because you don't recognize it's CGI doesn't mean it isn't.

22.11.2023 22:36 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0