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…
OK GO’S “END LOVE”
I love it when people are brilliant. It’s just so much more fun that way.
Remember when you first realized that if you set up a row of dominoes just right… and if you knocked over the first one… and they were spaced out just perfectly…. well, you know what I mean, right? Read the rest of this entry »
So why am I posting a Funny Or Die video about women fawning over babies? ‘Cause it’s damn funny. The people involved are very talented. And I want to look important to my friends. So shut the hell up and laugh. Warning: spit-takes may ensue. Read the rest of this entry »
I’m not a gamer. I’m a gamer ‘passenger.’My skills on the joystick have waned since the days of getting creamed on the grenade launcher stage of GOLDENEYE. Since then, the gaming world has exploded with surprising artistry and depth. I don’t play anymore… I dare not. There’s already enough humiliation in this world.
So I stay out of the driver’s seat.
But I love to ride shotgun.
Like a proper voyeur… I like to watch.
Case in point: RED DEAD REDEMPTION. Read the rest of this entry »
I’ve recently heard the score that John Debney has composed for this joyous occasion. Dude is channelling Alan Silvestri like he was possessed. Whatever this film may end up being, it is most definitely going to SOUND like a Predator film. Read the rest of this entry »
Video games into movies. It’s like trying to make an Indiana Jones film about aliens. Doesn’t really work all that well. The boys at Bonus Level know this. They’ve been doing a retrospective of all the games that have been adapted into films and sort of not worked.* Pretty good stuff.
I remember MORTAL KOMBAT as one of the last great arcade games that people still stuffed quarters into. Remember quarters? Read the rest of this entry »
First – there was IRON BABY. Read the rest of this entry »
We’re all excited about TOY STORY 3. Woody. Buzz. John Ratzenberger. Of course we’re all going to be there. It’s inevitable. 3-D. Woo-hoo.
There’s a dark side to our little stuffed animals and playthings, though. They’re the secret witnesses to a lot of shame and darkness… Read the rest of this entry »
For some reason, I love this. Not because it shows how one of the great talents of radio, film, stage, et al can fall so far. That’s actually tragic. Read the rest of this entry »
HEADLINE DISCLAIMER: YOUNG GUNS is awesome. It may not be a great Western. It may not be a great movie. I may have seen it over a hundred times. And it is awesome. Long Live Emilio.
Everyone currently obsessed with RED DEAD REDEMPTION has another gem of a Western to look forward to. Read the rest of this entry »
