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I f**king loved BATTLE: LOS ANGELES.

Oh, don’t get me wrong.  This movie ain’t perfect.  But I still love it, in and out and all around.

I couldn’t tell you exactly why it thrilled me like it did.  I can certainly tell you that when I went with my friends to see BATTLE: LOS ANGELES in the Cinerama Dome at Arclight Cinemas Hollywood this past Sunday, I was certainly the only one who came out seriously revved up about it.  In fact, they were all of the opinion that it was in a range of “average” to “worst goddamn thing I’ve ever seen.”  I’m still a bit baffled by their reactions, even if they were valid, so let me try to explain.

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Lost Art of Filmmaking represents my attempt to highlight examples of film language that no longer seems to appear on the radar of a majority of working filmmakers.

Each column, I’ll choose a clip from a movie that demonstrates a ‘lost art’ of some sort, ask you to watch it, and then go into detail about why this particular slice of movie is worth bringing back into focus…

THE UNTOUCHABLES

“(Hitchcock) is the one who distilled the essence of film. He’s like Webster. It’s all there. I’ve used a lot of his grammar….. I don’t think I do referencing, I use ideas which I think are effective in this particular piece at the moment. If they’ve been used before, fine. I mean, who cares? To me, it’s all grammar. If I’ve got that word available and it was used before and if I can use it again more effectively for my piece – why not?”

—- Brian DePalma

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Lost Art of Filmmaking represents my attempt to highlight examples of film language that no longer seems to appear on the radar of a majority of working filmmakers.

Each column, I’ll choose a clip from a movie that demonstrates a ‘lost art’ of some sort, ask you to watch it, and then go into detail about why this particular slice of movie is worth bringing back into focus…

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Lost Art of Filmmaking represents my attempt to highlight examples of film language that no longer seems to appear on the radar of a majority of working filmmakers.

Each column, I’ll choose a clip from a movie that demonstrates a ‘lost art’ of some sort, ask you to watch it, and then go into detail about why this particular slice of movie is worth bringing back into focus…

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Lost Art of Filmmaking represents my attempt to highlight examples of film language that no longer seems to appear on the radar of a majority of working filmmakers.

Each column, I’ll choose a clip from a movie that demonstrates a ‘lost art’ of some sort, ask you to watch it, and then go into detail about why this particular slice of movie is worth bringing back into focus… Read the rest of this entry »