The Social Network
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Binge Watch: How Silicon Valley Lifestyles Are Being Portrayed on Screens Large and Small
A number of recent films and television shows have been set in the tech industry. And regularly, I notice these projects can’t seem to decide: What’s the problem with Silicon Valley, anyway? One might draw a straight line from a character like Wall Street’s Gordon Gekko to jobs lost and houses foreclosed upon, but the consequences of “disruption” can be trickier to distill into lines as visceral and powerful as “greed is good.” I was thinking about this when I watched part of Super Pumped on a plane earlier this year. As it happens, American Airlines is one of the […]
by Joanne McNeil on Mar 16, 2023 -
“I Had to Figure Out the True Latitude, Speed and Color Science”: DP Jeff Cronenweth On The Social Network Ten Years Later and the Mysterium X Sensor
On October 1, The Social Network turns ten. The RED Mysterium X sensor (also turning ten) that rendered the film is now outmoded, but The Social Network thrives due to, not in spite of, the marks of its time. The limited latitude of the once cutting-edge camera sensor pushed David Fincher and DP Jeff Cronenweth—who also shot Fincher’s Fight Club, The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo and Gone Girl—into the darker bends of The Social Network’s imitation Harvard dorms. The camera struggled with highlights, so they avoided hot windows and sunny exteriors. It also strained to digest warm tones, so they chose […]
by A.E. Hunt on May 4, 2020 -
THE PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Palm Springs, jewel of the desert, playground of the Hollywood rich, not to mention thousands of prosperous retirees who enjoy golf, tennis, and dinner at five, is also the home of a pretty cool film festival, started by Sonny Bono in 1990. Once, it was a sleepy little affair where audiences could see multiple films in the same theater on the same ticket, and no one paid much attention to the results. Those days are emphatically over. Wrapping its 22nd year on January 17, the Festival broke its own attendance record in 2011, as more than 130,000 cinephiles crowded into […]
by Graham Flashner on Feb 17, 2011 -
Industry Beat: Veteran Producers Rethink the Indie Model
by Anthony Kaufman on Oct 23, 2010 -
AARON SORKIN ADDRESSES “SOCIAL NETWORK” SEXISM CHARGES
Amidst the widespread acclaim for David Fincher’s The Social Network have been criticisms that the film is sexist in its depiction of the Harvard social scene and the seemingly all-male world of computer programmers that combined to create Facebook. As Xeni Jardin noted in Boing Boing, the film fails the Bechdel test. Others have asked why screenwriter Aaron Sorkin didn’t create a role for Priscilla Chan, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s longtime girlfriend, who was in the picture (although, apparently, not romantically so) during the timespan of the film. In the Daily Beast, Rebecca Davis O’Brien asked where in the film […]
by Scott Macaulay on Oct 11, 2010 -
FINCHER, SORKIN, EISENBERG PRESS CONFERENCE “THE SOCIAL NETWORK”
Here’s part one of five from yesterday’s press conference of the New York Film Festival’s opening day film, The Social Network, at Lincoln Center yesterday. Parts two through five can be seen at the film’s YouTube site.
by Scott Macaulay on Sep 25, 2010 -
Premiering The Social Network
Starting with Jesse Eisenberg, stills from today’s red carpet and press conference by Jamie Stuart, whose filmic ode to this year’s New York Film Festival will be up on the site soon.
by Scott Macaulay on Sep 24, 2010
