Category Archives: Random

I can often be overheard declaring my passionate love for rack focus shots. (Why yes, I am a film geek.) But it wasn’t until recently that I really asked myself why. For those of you reading who may not know … Continue reading →

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Just finished Wings of Desire (Der Himmel über Berlin) and I feel like I need to watch it several more times just to catch everything that was in it. I’m not sure what I expected, but it was certainly more … Continue reading →

“All creativity can be understood as taking in the world as a problem.” I know we already talked this one to death, but I’m feeling the need to explore it further. We explored the nature of the statement, but not … Continue reading →

Working on a new post, but in the meantime I thought I’d post something I wrote for International Cinema about The Vanishing. Comparing original French and Dutch film to American remake. Possible spoilers. All numbers in parentheses are page numbers … Continue reading →

TWELVE ANGRY MEN… from a different perspective. This is an assignment for my small group communication course, so I’ll be examining this film (which happens to be one of my all-time favorites) for its group problem-solving elements. Fun! – Lesson … Continue reading →

So my carefully thought-out (ha) opinion of Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End… I’ve heard quite a lot of complaints about this film, but I think maybe the issue here is that their expectations were too high. I went … Continue reading →

It’s Friday night, I’m done with my blog post of doom, and somehow I find myself in front of my computer wanting to write another film blog post. For my international cinema class, we watched Fallen Angels on Wednesday afternoon. … Continue reading →

Yeah, yeah. I know I promised two posts ago to get serious about Vertigo, but…aahh! Sharks! This is what I do in place of sleep, apparently. I realize that I’m going really crazy with this sharks + YouTube thing, but … Continue reading →

I know I’ve done a lot of joking about shark movies in relation to the ‘toothed vagina’ theory (which, as Dr. Campbell pointed out, is actually an established psychological theory called Vagina Dentata that the author of my FTC essay … Continue reading →