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Los Angeles is a fine town. I lived in its tepid embrace for over seven years, and I have to say it was probably seven of the best film years of my life. I think I saw as many movies in that time span as the occasional film viewer sees in a [...]
On a recent post about [[Clash of the Titans]], Andy Best made a comment I’ve been coming back to over and over again since. The comment was the following:
And by the way, Jim, keep on plugging D&D, that game was solely responsible for getting me to read and develop in the face of school being [...]
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Here at UMW we have been going through a CMS Review. It has been a pretty interesting project, and while I only tangentially involved, I have been following the basic rhetorical thrust of the sales pitches from companies like Desire2Learn, BlackBoard, and Angel (well be getting in-house demos of Sakai and [...]
Last night I saw a coming attraction for the re-make of Prom Night (2008), which seemed so shiny and new compared to the original. In fact, while watching the trailer I found it to be a sign of the times of Hollywood for a couple of reasons: first, it seems an excellent example that the [...]
When talking about films I saw as a pre-pubescent adolescent, I think one of the most important would have to be [[Ray Harryhausen]]’s [[Clash of the Titans]] (1981). Now technically, keeping inline with the logic of discussing film, I should have said [[Desmond Davis]]’s Clash of the Titans because he was the director, and ever [...]
I find myself constantly going back to the Internet Archive, and constantly being blown away by what I find. Now, maybe I am biased towards video, and obsess over all things film history. I have been registering several people’s interest in mashups from various angles, Doug Symington was wondering about the curricular possibilities here and [...]
Let me ask you something. If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?
This is the question I would ask of the [[Coen Brothers]] after watching this film. The rule in my mind was the reworking of a narrative logic in their films spanning over twenty years, in particular [...]
Another gem from my Ubuweb video feed.
Just found this series of audio files that feature [[David Cronenberg]] curating an [[Andy Warhol]] exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto back in 2006. Here’s a nice quote from Cronenberg about Warhol’s influence on his own work:
Andy was making underground films when I was making [...]
I had a pretty unbelievable experience the other night watching the late, great [[Michelangelo Antonioni]]’s [[L'eclisse]] (1962). I’m not sure how to explain this film, for the actual narrative itself is rather empty. Yet, it becomes immediately clear not five minutes into the film that this emptiness is very much at the core of [...]
My UBUWEB rss subscription is the feed that keeps on giving. I scan it regularly, and indulge in watching a work by a filmmaker I haven’t heard of before irregularly. This time Harun Farocki’s video/documentary I Thought I was Seeing Convicts (2001) caught my attention. The film is about a maximum-security prison in Corcoran, California. [...]
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