To continue my rambling definition, or at least my attempted rambling definition, of what is “cinema” and what is “uncinema” I spent a lot of time this past week thinking about dialogue; specifically the dialogue in film noir and mumblecore films. In film noir the dialogue is often witty, melodramatic, or explicit yet poetic exposition. [...]
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While writing my previous post on Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit presentation I made a mistake. The mistake was using a word that I did not fully comprehend; the word, uncimeatic. To be fair though, it wasn’t me who originally used it. Originally, it was Devin Faraci who used it to describe his personal reaction to [...]
This week at CinemaCon Peter Jackson unveiled footage from his new film The Hobbit. And although getting a sneak peak at Jackson’s follow up to his much applauded adaptation of the Lord of The Rings trilogy would be enough to satisfy most film enthusiasts, this presentation came with the added allure of being projected in [...]
If you walked into a theater this past weekend you walked in with strides of confidence, assured that you knew what you were getting yourself into. Those who walked into screenings of The Three Stooges walked in looking for broad, maybe even infantile, slap-stick humor and got it. People who walked into Titanic walked in [...]
Yesterday something horrible happened to me and it all started when I was reading a blog post about Michel Gondry’s new film, Mood Indigo. The film is based off a surrealist French novel by Boris Vian titled L’Écume des Jours, or in English: Froth of the Daydream. Up until I read that article I had [...]
I was in fifth grade when Titanic was released on home video. I remember this because I was just starting out at a new school and still getting lunch notes from my mom. Because I hardly knew anyone and was still worried about “being cool,” I made sure to read them on the sly under my desk. [...]
Last Tuesday The Music Box Theater and Turner Classic Movies hosted a screening of The Birds with a special introductory conversation between Tippi Hedren and Ben Mankiewicz. The moment Tippi Hedren descended the stage my girlfriend turned to me and said “Jeez, I never knew Alfred Hitchcock was such a jerk.” The story of Tippi [...]
Tonight all across the world movie goers will flood into sold out theaters to watch children hunt down and murder one another in a post apocalyptic blood sport known as The Hunger Games. In fact the The Hunger Games has already sold out over 2,000 showtimes and accounted for 92% of activity over at Fandango [...]
Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho is considered a landmark film in the horror genre. Psycho helped pave the way for the serial killer sub-genre and was well respected for its brilliant technical and narrative elements; most notably the iconic shower sequence which combined seventy seven different camera angles and fifty cuts in less than three minutes of [...]
To call The Artist a silent film would be stupid. The Artist is a film absolutely brimming with sound, and not just any sound either, I’m talking about diagetic sound. For those of you unfamiliar with the term, diagetic sound refers to the type of sound in films that characters within the film can hear. For instance, a good example [...]
