Thursday Morning Rant: On Filmmaking Tips
Buy a camera and shoot! Actually, just find somebody with equipment and shoot. A tight script is the alpha and omega of good filmmaking….
A Look At: Achtung Berlin
It has been less than two months since Shia LaBeouf peeked out through the holes of a paper bag at Berlinale’s Red Carpet, and…
Thursday Morning Rant: From Film Scores to Coen Brothers’ New ‘Fargo’ TV Series
All films should be silent. A glaucomic spinster with a perm can play the piano, popcorns, nachos and other loud snacks are welcome, and…
‘F For Fake’: Confessions Of A Self-Described Charlatan
Reality? It is the toothbrush waiting at home for you in its glass, a bus ticket, a paycheck and the grave,” says Orson Welles…
Thursday Morning Rant: A Short But Uninformed Study On Hipsters And Wes Anderson
According to my Wikipedia/Youtube research, the word “hipster” was coined in jazz circles of the 1930s and 1940s and was meant to describe a…
Thursday Morning Rant: On Film Rants, Melville And Being Cool
“Listen, you fuckers, you screwheads! Here is a man who would not take it anymore. A man who stood up against the scum, the…
Beyond Colour: Those Bloody Reds
In an article written long before directing his first feature, Antonioni recognized colour as a powerful and partly autonomous element of film language, “a…
First Look: ‘Jack’
Jack is an urban odyssey embarked upon by a ten-year-old boy, beautifully played by the young Ivo Pietzcker, as he struggles to reunite with…