I Love B Science Fiction Movies
“B” does not stand for “bad” but for “Not ‘A’”. These movies came out of the era when it was typical to go to the movies and get a double feature. Yes! Instead of an hour of ads for junk…
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"And that’s all I’m going to say about that."
“B” does not stand for “bad” but for “Not ‘A’”. These movies came out of the era when it was typical to go to the movies and get a double feature. Yes! Instead of an hour of ads for junk…
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“Vandalism of art refers to intentional damage of an artwork.” (Wikipedia) Pan and scan is a method for cropping a film (most typically at the sides). One goal was to “refit” a widescreen image to viewing on the square television…
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What’s the connection? Smaug in The Desolation of Smaug put me in mind of Ray Harryhausen, master of special effects who died earlier this year. Apparently the thirteen year old Harryhausen saw the 1933 King Kong, with stop-motion animation courtesy…
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Être et avoir, (To Be and to Have), 2002, directed by Nicolas Philibert. French with English subtitles. This award-winning documentary captures a year at a rural one-room school in France with a dozen students ranging in age from 4 to…
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This wonderful gouache by Franz Marc is only one of the ~1,400 artworks found in a Munich apartment among piles of garbage which has me thinking about a few films related to this story. I have three in particular in…
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Interested in industrial design, husband and wife creative teams, designs with lasting influence? Then check out: Eames: The Architect & the Painter (2011), written by Jason Cohn, directed by Jason Cohn and Bill Jersey. This is probably one of the…
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We recently saw four documentaries about film. There were common threads intertwining these films on film and I was glad we saw them in close proximity which highlighted their connections. I recommend watching these as a set, but each one…
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