Where Blind Spots are concerned, it feels like I’m ending 2013 where I started.
Tag: 2013 blindspot
You have to smile when you see the lineage of some of your favorite films.
Look at film long enough, eventually it looks back.
Sergei Eisenstein serves up the best bowl of spinach I have ever taste
As I finished a gem by a filmmaker I love, a surprise was waiting for me – a surprise I’ve yet to find in this whole watching series.
Something tells me that if he ever wanted to, Alfred Hitchcock could have made a terrifying film about a tree full of chipmunks. The man was just THAT good.
My romp through film history finally takes me to France. It;s there that I learn that French people are gloriously screwed up, and that my readers have amazing taste!
I often sit down to watch action films from times gone by and wonder “What do people see in this?”
This wasn’t one of those times.
How do you create a comedy that will last? You begin with the assumption that your audience isn’t a bunch of idiots. Armed with that assumption, its amazing how well a comedy can endure.
“The more things change, the more they stay the same.” Sometimes it’s shocking how very true that old saying can be.
This month, the blind spot series sends me back to Sunday School. Who needs a film with recorded dialogue when you have the expressive face of Maria Falconetti to express such a range of emotion?
We begin a new round of essentials with a bummer.
An sublimely, achingly, beautiful bummer.