December 2011
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15 Things I Liked in 2011, Part 2.
Landed in India yesterday and already hit the ground running, it’s going to be a hectic three weeks ahead of me. While on the plane I finished scripting my short film, and am in the process of locking down two locations. I’m going to try my level best to keep everyone in the loop on the short, which is titled A Brief History of Love, but as I’m operating out of a mobile office, updating might be a...
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15 Things I Liked in 2011, Part 1.
I don’t feel like I partook in much in 2011. We didn’t go out to eat as much, in large part that I spent almost all of my free money on finishing Lilith. Movies were few and far between. Even my reading slowed down quite a bit due to my writing and work schedule. But, like last year, there were definitely some highlights.
15) Psycho Bunny. About two years ago I put a moratorium on...
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A new short, and Festivus news!
So I’m off to India next week, and in a bout of midnight inspiration, I’ve decided to shoot a short film whilst there. Two days, two actors, a vague concept, and a ton of improvisation.
My forays into particle physics and mathematics have inspired a short story about what it takes to leave our galaxy. There’s a huge spiritual component to it, as the energy required to transport...
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My Top 10 Greatest Short Films.
Let listmania continue on! It occurred to me that in my posts regarding my Top 30 Greatest Films (Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3) I had promised to put together a list of my top short films. Since there are so many, I’ve truncated it down to ten films.
I had written some time ago on the importance of short films, and why we need to continue making them. It is without a doubt that the short film...
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11 Best Films of 2011, Part 2.
Continuing from yesterday, here are the top five films of 2011. I’d previously written extensive reviews for three of them on this blog before, and have provided links accordingly.
5) Senna, Asif Kapadia, United Kingdom.
Senna is one of those rare films where everyone - regardless of income, beliefs or politics, will find something poignant to relate to. Seems odd that a documentary...
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11 Best Films of 2011, Part 1.
A disclosure: I still haven’t seen Steve McQueen’s Shame, Alexander Payne’s The Descendants, Michel Hazanavicius’ critically-acclaimed silent film The Artist, or Asghar Farhadi’s A Separation. Given my upcoming travel schedule, there will be a high liklihood that I won’t be able to get around to them before the New Year. I’ve also not much desire to see...
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Notebooks.
I’ve been doing a ton of research for my current screenplay (my Paul Pope graphic novel adaptation), and this entails collecting thousands of articles, photographs, art pieces, books and even pieces of clothing. I’m very serious about my research - for Lilith I accumulated almost nine thousand separate pieces of references, of which by the time production rolled around I actually used...
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Rethinking Video on Demand.
Talks are continuing on how to properly distribute Lilith, and the inevitable discussion of streaming, Video on Demand and iTunes has come up.
I guess I’m a product of my generation. It used to be a joke when a film went “straight to video” or was “made for tv.” It was a slogan of a film’s failure, that it didn’t get the royal treatment of a theatrical...
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Music for the Weekend: Major Tom by Peter...