Movies

 

 

Framing a shot

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This is my all time favorite film. Rarely do I see a modern day film that does not include some elements taken from Cocteau's masterwork.

While Cocteau undoubtedly wasn't the first to use those elements, he did use them in such a creative and unique way in this film as to make a lasting impression on all the filmmakers that followed.

Nothing is truly "new" in filmmaking. Every time I think I have discovered some new way of doing a shot, I usually end up seeing the same setup in some other movie — usually shot a long time ago. All filmmaking is derivative in one way or another. It's how that derivative work is used that can add or detract from a film's worth.

In this section, you will find my opinions (and some personal philosophy) about movies, movie makers, and the motion picture business.

 

 

I don't have a "top ten list" (either for the year, or of all time). I was actually working on such a list, but then I happened to watch the movie "Memento", and now I can't remember what movies were on it :)

On the following pages, I sometimes name some of the movies I have liked (and not), and why. I am not a film critic in any sense of the word (I leave that to my eclectic reviewer wife, Staci), so please take my personal comments and opinions as just those of someone that enjoys going to see a good movie.

I define a good film as one that I find entertaining or thought provoking, and makes me glad to have had the opportunity to experience it, and a bad or mediocre film as one that fails to do the same.

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