Blog posts by Ignatiy Vishnevetsky 
Movie Review
Ondine
In Theaters
Jun 08, 2010
Syracuse (Colin Farrell, looking a good ten years older than usual), nicknamed “Circus,” is a recovering alcoholic and down-on-his-luck fisherman who spends his time being made fun of behind his back and doting on his wheelchair-bound daughter. One day, Syracuse fishes an unconscious woman with an unplaceable accent (Alicja Bachleda) out of the water. She says her name is Ondine but she won’t talk much about her past. He lets her stay at his house and buys her clothes while she helps him with the fishing. He is rough with bushy Brezhnev eyebrows that distract from the handsomeness of ...
cineBYTE
Year of the Wheelchair
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky Jun 15, 2010
The defining moment of cinephilia is uncanny juxtaposition: the recognition of an element in a film from one's memory of a radically different one. Watch three or so movies in a row, and they will appear to form a pattern, even if that pattern consists of little more than the way establishing shots are framed, or the same make and model of car appearing again and again, or the way one actor resembles another. If criticism exists to explain, cinephilia exists to mystify, and it’s in the place where those two overlap, like the center of a Venn ...
Screenshot Weekly
CANON T3i Has Arrived
"Last month Canon unveiled the Rebel T3i (EOS 600D) upper entry-level DSLR. It continues to use the 18MP CMOS sensor seen in the Rebel T2i (550D) but gains a tilt and swivel 1,040k dot LCD monitor like the one offered on the more expensive 60D. It also gains the ability to remotely ...
Incredible Time-Lapse, Tilt-Shift Remix Of Rear Window, by Jeff Desom
This is an astonishing video and if you're a fan of the film it makes it even more astonishing knowing how he put this together in such a beautiful, seamless remix of scenes from the amazing set Hitchcock had designed. This is a real treat. It's the best thing I've seen on Vimeo in a while.
