When the book-versus-movie debate seems less clear-cut.
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Class is back in session. Jandy & I discover why we’re wrong about “why we’re wrong”, and discuss film’s early adoption of colour…fanciful as it may have been.
The drape of a dress, the cut of a suit, and the volumes they can say about the characters in our films.
“The moment the CITIZEN KANE screenplay threw me for a loop…or “How can you never notice a detail that’s never there?”
Every once in a while, reading someone else’s textbook can be a source of great joy.
Two of the biggest creature features of all time prompt brevity and wit in todays critic up for discussion with Jandy.
The book finally gives us a curious inclusion, and a prophecy about the future of documentary films.
My conversation with Jandy resumes. This week Gilbert Seldes has us discussing the link between Charlie Chaplin and Optimus Prime.
When politics bleed into film criticism, it can sometimes make for a tricky read…but still spark great conversation.
It’s easy for a critic to tell us what has happened. What about telling us what could happen?
Looking at a moment where one critic seemed too overwhelmed for words, but found them anyway.
In looking at some early critique of film editing, one wonders if it was ever something our brains were ever meant to process.