On Location: Mill Valley Film Festival opens with Danish Girl, Spotlight (Recap)
MVFF38 opens with heavy weight films about heavy weight topics.
Clinton Stark
Filmmaker and editor at Stark Insider, covering arts, AI & tech, and indie film. Inspired by Bergman, slow cinema and Chipotle. Often found behind the camera or in the edit bay. Peloton: ClintTheMint.
5 Things I learned from a top Hollywood cinematographer
“Take a deep breath.” Who knew?! Breathing is critical to proper camera operation — at least for the Hollywood pros. Amazing what you can learn…
Welcome to Ilana & expanding coverage on Stark Insider
Welcome Ilana Walder-Biesanz! You may have noticed a new voice on Stark Insider. Ilana spent the last year on a Fullbright Scholarship in Germany watching…
There Will Be ‘Sacred Blood’
You don’t see horror films too often at mainstream film festivals. And you also don’t see new Coppola films all that often either. Sacred Blood,…
Wine and The Arsonist
Under any normal, rational scenario I’d say — and I’d suspect you’d agree — that an arsonist is not such a good thing. But, when it…
Verdict: Samsung Gear S2 smartwatch
Wrist Wars II. Is the Samsung Gear S2 an Apple Watch killer? Review, plus comparison to Pebble Time, and Android Wear.
Surface Book: Microsoft reinvents the laptop (Video)
Did Microsoft just out-Apple Apple?
No suppressing creative spirit in ‘Taxi’
A preview of some of this year’s gems at the Mill Valley Film Festival begins with ‘Taxi’ (‘Taxi Tehran’), a banned film shot on the…
How to get Android 6.0 Marshmallow right now
It’s Marshmallow day. And that can mean only one thing: a stampede to Google’s Android images pages. There us eager early adopters can find links to…
Must See: ‘Monstress’ show about Filipino-American life in San Francisco (Review)
Are you married to a Squid Mother? Then, what are you waiting for, you could have a star in the making! All it takes is…