May 2012
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Ken Burns on Why His Formula for a Great Story Is 1+1=3
For a documentary filmmaker, it’s hard to imagine a more intimidating project than making a documentary film about Ken Burns. When Sarah Klein and Tom Mason set out explore the mysterious nature of story, however, they decided to do just that. In their beautiful short documentary, Ken...
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Updates
Sooooooo, I’ve been busy! Currently about to be 2nd A.D. on my last academic related film thing with the Michigan Creative Film Alliance. I’ve also been recently reassigned as the post-production supervisor on our film we put together with this year’s Film Specialization in order to wrap up the small things and start throwing it at festivals. I’m also currently doing very...
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A Few Thoughts on "The Avengers"
Spoilers abound. Take notice: I know little about comic books, so that is not the perspective that I am coming from with these notes.
To start, let me say that I have a very unhappy relationship with comic book movies. I’ve largely stayed away from such films after I saw Spider-Man 2 as a child. I hadn’t really developed critical sensibilities, but if you look deep into the internet,...
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The Pariah Blu-Ray/DVD
Contains a special feature entitled Trying out Identity: Pariah’s Wardrobe.
I haven’t watched it yet, as I’m caught up with my final finals (the reason I picked up the Pariah blu-ray, in fact), but I’m happy that it exists. Perhaps I can talk about Pariah at a later date.