TANNA
Traditions may come in all shapes and sizes, but the rigid ones always seem to be the ones that last. On the island of Tanna in the South Pacific, tradition is called “Kastom,” and it’s the one thing the islanders … Continue reading TANNA
PICKPOCKET
A while back my good friend Pablo Kjølseth — the master behind CU-Boulder’s International Film Series — asked me to guest write a post for TCM’s Movie Morlocks, now retitled Streamline in conjunction with FilmStruck. I chose to write about … Continue reading PICKPOCKET
LA STRADA
A while back my good friend Pablo Kjølseth—the master behind CU-Boulder’s International Film Series—asked me to guest write a post for TCM’s Movie Morlocks, now retitled Streamline in conjunction with FilmStruck. I chose to write about one of Federico Fellini’s … Continue reading LA STRADA
THE GREAT MCGINTY
Preston Sturges worked on almost 20 screenplays before figuring out how to keep mediocre directors from mucking up his words and stories: direct the pictures himself. Lucky for him, Sturges scripts made bank, and Paramount Pictures was desperate for the … Continue reading THE GREAT MCGINTY
CHRISTINE
Human beings are creatures of sight. What we judge as real is commonly based on what we see and how we see, but there is a third aspect to sight: Why. Why must we see? To believe? To understand? Because … Continue reading CHRISTINE
20TH CENTURY WOMEN
A young man sees the world from a specific point of view. Though women may surround him—women who raise him, teach him, love him, and confuse him—he will never be able to fully see the world through their eyes. He … Continue reading 20TH CENTURY WOMEN
PATERSON
Consider the bus driver. Do you notice them as you board the Skip? Do you wonder what they see as the Dash rumbles down South Boulder Road? As you stare out the window, lost in your thoughts, what thoughts are … Continue reading PATERSON
LIVE BY NIGHT
Adapted from the 2012 novel by Dennis Lehane, Live By Night is a great American epic stuck inside a misguided movie. Written for the screen, produced, and directed by Ben Affleck, who also stars, Live by Night starts overseas in the trenches of World … Continue reading LIVE BY NIGHT
DEKALOG
Famed Polish writer/director Krzysztof Kieślowski already had a handful of feature films and documentaries under his belt when his writing partner, Krzysztof Piesiewicz, gave him the idea: “Someone should make a film about the Ten Commandments. You should do it.” … Continue reading DEKALOG
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