January 2010
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I Obsess over the Academy Awards (Part 2)
Okay, so just before the Oscars are going to announce who is nominated, I figured that I should take a stab at guessing what the top ten pictures of the year will be, considering this is the first time in quite a long time that ten films will be nominated.
So, here’s the gimmes, in my mind:
The Hurt Locker
Precious
Avatar
Up in the Air
Inglorious Basterds
And here are my guesses as to what...
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I Obsess over the Academy Awards (Part 1)
I write too much, and I feel like a dick writing lengthy posts when no one else does. I just love the layout of tumblr. That’s why I do it. That being said, this one is going to be too long. Not done with it, but I can already tell. So here’s part one.
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I Obsess...
Going back in Time
Things have been busy for me lately. I’ve promised to myself that I was going to put my filming into the highest gear possible and start making as many films as I possibly can.
Sadly, School is getting in the way. Words cannot describe how much time reading for my Minority Politics and Contemporary Film Media Theory courses takes up. Granted I dig both classes, they’ve gotten in the...
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How do you start a war with China? Blame them for...
I’m not sure how many of you are aware of this situation, but we’re not worried about lead in our childrens’ toys anymore. We’re worried about toxic chemicals in their jewelry.
http://www.freep.com/print/article/20100111/NEWS07/1110318/Dangerous-chemical-seen-in-kids-jewelry
(Good Grief, does the Freep site suck these days.)
What I find incredibly interesting about this article is that although...
Film and Representation →
feministfilm:
“The writer of MEGAN FOX movie JENNIFER’S BODY has blamed executives for excluding female cinemagoers by marketing it as a sexy film for male teens.”
Via contactmusic.com.
This article gets me thinking about a lot of issues that I think about as a filmmaker as far as the concept of “representation” goes. Not just in films themselves, representation is a seriously complicated...
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My Pointless '09 Music Lists
Even though we’re already 12 days into 2010, I’m still compelled to construct some sort of “top ten” music list. Of course, this being the internet, there are thousands of them, and mine simply is not one that will be noteworthy. What I thought of, however, was trying to give the simple system a little bit of a twist. I thought that my idea had been spoiled when I found a Huffington Post writer...
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Liberalism and Elitism: Synonymous?
Titles are strange things. We often define each other through them, yet, what do they really represent? What can they truly mean? How does a title make an individual and, more importantly, how does a self-imposed title define an individual?
I think of this because I think about myself a lot. Not about my hair or how big my penis is (Or why it is that men fear having a small penis. Is it simply a...
