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Spared no expense on everything but story
There are lots of things you can do with collaborators. Build a house, manage some kind of project that synergises all the paradigms, play sports.…
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I jumped a shark and I liked it
Of course it’s not believable. Of course it’s not pristine storytelling. It’s got lots of stupid action in it for no real reason. There’s no…
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Speed and politics
Cinema is movement. Movement is change. Change is politics — politics regulates change. Movement in the frame is thus political. The addition of speed amplifies…
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Teaching film and media in a neoliberal bubble
First point: I am a teacher. This is a role that bestows on me power and control over others. Second point: I am white, male,…
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Welles and the frame
Suffice to say that Orson Welles taught me all I ever needed to know about framing*. Happy 100th, old friend. * for ‘framing’, read ‘all…