“Save the Cat!” A Screenwriter’s (Somewhat Silly) Battlecry
There’s a book on screenwriting by Blake Snyder called Save the Cat! The Last Book on Screenwriting You’ll Ever Need. I haven’t read it and I don’t intend to. It’s gotten good reviews on amazon.com,...
View ArticleMarina Abramović: Portrait of the Artist as Warrior
This is Serbian artist Marina Abramović. On March 7, 2010, she sat down in a chair on the second floor of New York’s Museum of Modern Art. Over the next three months, she came into the museum six days...
View Article“F for Fake” by Orson Welles
F for Fake by Orson Welles—his last feature movie, released in 1973—seems to be, first and foremost, an excuse to film his hot young Croatian girlfriend Oja Kodar walking around and wiggling her ass....
View ArticleFilm: “Jiro Dreams of Sushi”
The documentary film “Jiro Dreams of Sushi” is about more than just making sushi: it’s also about continuous improvement, about striving for perfection and always doing the best you possibly can. I...
View ArticleHistory of the Zombie War = History of a Troubled Film
The recent release of the trailer for World War Z has faithful fans up in arms. The postmodern zombie apocalypse novel by Max Brooks was the subject of a high-six-figure bidding war between Brad Pitt’s...
View ArticleFilm: “Safety Not Guaranteed”
The 2012 film Safety Not Guaranteed waves its hipster flag high, apparently hoping that it will melt the hearts of a cynical crowd in their mid- to late 20s—folks who made quirky films like Napoleon...
View Article“The Hobbit”: More Complicated than Some Critics Have Acknowledged
I’m going to spend some time on this post because I think The Hobbit is a great bellwether. But I need to get this out of the way first and foremost: doesn’t Peter Jackson know that having a character...
View ArticleFilm: “Stranger Than Fiction”
Ever feel like there’s a running narration for your life? That’s the dilemma encountered by Will Ferrell in the 2006 romantic comedy Stranger Than Fiction. A lonely and boring IRS agent, Ferrell...
View ArticleChristian Marclay’s Amazing Art Installation “The Clock”
In 2010, Swiss-American artist Christian Marclay went from peripheral avant-garde folk hero to international artistic sensation with his 24-long clip video “The Clock.” It took a staff of professional...
View ArticleThe Most Powerful, Complex, and Disturbing Documentary Film You May Never See...
Source: IMDB. A miracle has appeared without warning in the sky, and it is wondrous and frightening and confusing all at once. The Act of Killing has been picking up awards at film festivals around the...
View ArticleAn “Artist’s Date” with iMovie and the Short Film That Resulted
An important part of The Artist’s Way is the notion of “artist dates”—time set aside each week for the budding artist to spend time alone with themselves. Though an artist’s date could be a solo trip...
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