Apophany #1: Curtain Call at the Absolute Cinema
OnWhat Marvel using the “absolute cinema” meme means for film.
Tag: film
HeadClog in the Operator: Tux & Fanny: The Game Creators Albert Birney & Gabriel Koenig
OnJeremiah Aulwurm talks to Albert Birney and Gabriel Koenig, the creators of the Tux and Fanny Video Game (Kittysneezes 2021 Game of the Year).
Video: Trootcottoun
OnIn the summer of 2002, I made a short film! I wrote it and directed it (and Rian Bosak shot pretty much all the tricky bits as my DP!), and edited it all in about… 3 weeks? 4 weeks? Something like that….
50 Outstanding Movies, Vol. 2011
OnThere are the 50 Best Movies I saw for the first time, or practically the first time, in 2011. There are a few I had technically seen before, but either couldn’t remember them at all, or felt that I experienced them in…
An Open Letter To Netflix
OnImage via Wikipedia Dear Netflix, Are you stupid? No, seriously, are you stupid? I really wanna know. Because, y’know, it seems that the way you’re acting, it seems that you’re stupid. Not just a little stupid, but big full-on stupid. Like “DUR…
Review: He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not
OnImage via Wikipedia Before I get started, this review contains a lot of spoilers for He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not. Do not continue past the cut if you care about such things. I originally had these all in ROT13, but that does…
Review: I Think We’re Alone Now
OnI’ve wanted to see I Think We’re Alone Now since I watched the trailer online with my friend Josh when I went to New York last February. The documentary follows a couple of die-hard fans of Tiffany (the singer from the ‘80s…
Interview: Paul B. Germain
OnPaul B. Germain is a fantastic documentarian. His first feature, Speedy Delivery, is a look at David Newell, Director of Public Relations of Family Communications, Inc. — or, as you might know him better, Mr. McFeely, the jovial delivery man from Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. The…
Things That Are Neat: The Concept Of Persistence Of Vision!
OnI’m big into film, and so I sort of have to think this is neat. But even if I wasn’t, I’d still think it’s pretty cool, since it’s your brain putting together a series of stills together and presenting it to you…
Film Review: Funeral Parade Of Roses
OnImage via Wikipedia Funeral Parade of Roses is Toshio Matsumoto‘s first feature-length film, after finding much success in the world of short films and documentaries. This film is a huge influence on Stanley Kubrick‘s adaptation of A Clockwork Orange — a double…