film

  • The Wonderful World of Cameras

    An absurdly long post about my camera buying process.

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  • Question of the Week #5

    Question of the Week #5

    A simple question about television spirals on and on…

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  • A weekend of watching.

    A weekend of watching.

    Three excellent films over one weekend. Color me pleased.

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  • Rotten Tomatoes Freshness Meter Critics – 51% Audience – 81% What  You Should Know It would seem most already know it: this is, in fact, a good movie. I had no idea that the audience score would be so high considering how widely dismissed this film is. If you have not seen Meet Joe Black

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  • It pains me to write it but for eight years I did not have much of an appreciation for the work of Wes Anderson. Shortly after viewing The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou I felt that Mr. Anderson had begun to engage in a form of filmic navel-gazing. I was not alone in having this opinion and

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  • Steven Soderbergh Interviews Gordon Willis

    I will be the first to admit that my love for Steven Soderbergh is waning. I could write an entire post about where I think it started to go wrong, about why it started to go wrong and if it could ever be made right again. Someday I might and perhaps one person might read

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  • Rotten Tomatoes Freshness Meter Critics – 66% Audience – 49% What  You Should Know This is a sports movie. About ping pong. Needless to say it is a comedy. Why You Should Reconsider My guess is you didn’t hear about ping pong playa or that you did but only after seeing the movie/watching the trailer

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  • It’s unfortunate that we don’t live in a time now where a polarizing film is a positive. Like in the ’70s, if you made a film like Straw Dogs, and half the people hate it and half the people think it’s a masterpiece, that’s viewed as cool. Now it’s not. Now if you don’t get unified

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  • Inception – Is Everyone Taking Crazy Pills?

    It can’t be just me, can it?

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  • Two Rules for Storytelling

    Two Rules for Storytelling

    Working principles. A story, whether it is screenplay, novel or something I am whispering in your ear should satisfy one or both of the following conditions. They are listed in order of importance. 1)    The story should entertain/titillate/engage the reader/listener/viewer. 2)    The story should teach/inform/educate the reader/listener/viewer. I am sure I have stolen this almost directly from

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