December 2009
10 posts
agreeing with @Natterjack that @Netflix needs to give customers the ability to add Tags and Notes to individual films.
November 2009
14 posts
in slow building “Swimmers” (2005), a simple crisis for a Chesapeake fishing family dredges up a bed of overlapping imperfections.
“Little Children” (2006) is not without ambition, but is always just a little too self-conscious, like a child striving to impress.
if the lag we’re experiencing with Netflix Instant Watch is any indication, many of you aren’t really chatting with your family right now.
5 tags
understated, feral and moving “Let the Right One In” (2008) may be our favorite vampire tale since Bram Stoker’s epistolary novel.
“Planet 51” (2009) is 51 years of cliches mashed up and rendered in 3D animation. kids will laugh. extra bit mid-credits.
nice use of stop-motion photography by Robert Caplin, on @Vimeo. even though we could care less about baseball. http://ping.fm/o0uE4
“The Fall” (2006) is a fantasy for the eyes, with the soul of a wounded child. must be seen wide-screeen.
had to completely rewire my video editing synapses just to replace fade-in & fade-out with freeze frames. metaphors are powerful memes.
woo hoo! i found the “Playhead Info” option. oh, crap. it only shows seconds, no frames. [sigh]
quick’n’dirty video edit in a coffee shop, on laptop sans Final Cut. iMovie ‘09 is odd. my ol’ school brain wants to see timecode!
thinking “Downfall” (2004) is an extreme close-up of detritus trapped in the gully of modernity’s ebb tide.
watching the end credits is how we come up for air from good cinema. we like it when movies reward us for sitting all the way through.
“No Jews were harmed in the making of this motion picture.” - A Serious Man (2009)