filmmaking
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Not that long ago when I wanted to watch a movie or television show the first step in the process, usually, was to decide which I wanted to watch. If I reach back into my mind to the time when the video rental store was my main method of obtaining what I wanted, typically I…
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(this post contains massive spoilers about the show Sunny) I spent ten years trying to write a novel without understanding how to tell the story. I had been reading a good deal of John Steinbeck and it influenced everything I wrote. I was young enough that I did not see this influence until I shared…
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(I discovered today that I only shared this on Medium.com which I stopped using in 2017. So, yes, this is old but it’s one of the few times I’ve been able to interview people regarding their film work – and have a record of it! – that I can share. So here goes…) This interview…
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(I discovered today that I only shared this on Medium.com which I stopped using in 2017. So, yes, this is old but it’s one of the few times I’ve been able to interview people regarding their film work – and have a record of it! – that I can share. So here goes…) This interview…
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I have been posting a fair number of reviews about television shows and movies of late. I struggle with calling what I write reviews as I purposely try and not comprehensively review anything. I suppose I take the coward’s way out, I try and write what I consider appreciations of things I think worthy of…
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A rant that becomes a comparison of how The Criterion Channel and Mubi designed their services.
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Recently social media was ablaze with two topics: Russia invading Ukraine and people praising a sequence from West Side Story (the Spielberg version). It was weird. I have nothing to say about the war happening in Ukraine. I do, however, have a few things I’d like to share about the odd “can-you-believe-this-Spielberg-guy?” thing that was…
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A short post about a great film made with an iPhone.
The Writings of John Ryan Sullivan 