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Tag Archives: movies
Why this year’s Best Picture award dooms the Oscars to irrelevance
The last film that students watch in my film and media studies course is whatever has won the Best Picture Oscar that year. I was a little nervous to see what won this year because some of the nominees were … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Higher education, Media studies, Movies and film, News, Popular culture, Television
Tagged Academy Awards, Apple TV+, Best Picture, cinema, CODA, DVDs, film, film industry, movies, oscars, streaming
10 Comments
A chance encounter with “Tubular Bells”
Heard this old song on the radio driving home today. It has literally been YEARS since I’ve heard it or even thought about it. The song, “Tubular Bells,” was released in 1973 and went on to be used as the … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, History, Media studies, Movies and film, Music, Popular culture
Tagged creativity, Media studies, movies, music
1 Comment
One final allusion in O Brother, Where Art Thou?
I’ve never seen anyone comment on this before, but doesn’t the series of arches in the final moments of O Brother, Where Art Thou? remind you of the series of axe heads (the ring holes) that Odysseus (aka Ulysses, the … Continue reading
Posted in Movies and film, Popular culture
Tagged contest of the bow, movies, O Brother Where Art Thou?, the odyssey
3 Comments
The Birth of a Nation: Lighting and (mostly “non”) camera movement, racism, and Abraham Lincoln’s assassination reenacted a mere 50 years after
NOTE: This post is under reconstruction because a) the YouTube account that I originally took my clips from has been shut down and b) WordPress doesn’t seem to be working correctly to allow me to play clips to and from … Continue reading
Is Hollywood Over?
Really interesting article in Vanity Fair Magazine this month, “Why Hollywood as We Know It Is Already Over.” Basically it says that Hollywood is too bloated and calcified, producing unoriginal action movies that it hopes will hit big in foreign … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Movies and film, Popular culture, Television, Writing, blogging
Tagged actors, AI, CGI, fiction, Hollywood, movies, novels
4 Comments
What movie does my hotel shower remind you of?
Yeah, me too😄 I made sure all the doors were locked before I stepped in!
Watching the “Up” Documentary Series (Film #5, 35 Up)
This past weekend I watched 35 Up. As I said in my last post, I’m going to try a different approach in structuring my thoughts on the film this time around by first providing a brief update on each of … Continue reading
Watching the “Up” Documentary Series (Film #4, 28 Up)
This past weekend I watched the fourth film in the “Up” series, 28 Up. Tonight I’m going to watch the fifth film, and I can see that I need to restructure the way I’m writing about each film. Every week, … Continue reading
Posted in Life, Movies and film, WPLongform (posts of 1000 words or longer)
Tagged "28 Up", documentary film, existential angst, films, giftedness, happiness, longitudinal studies, mental health, mental illness, Michael Apted, movies, Neil Hughes, psychology, sociology, The "Up" series, women's roles
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Watching the “Up” Documentary Series (Film #3, 21 Up)
Over the weekend I watched the third film in the “Up” series. All the original seven-year-olds are back and are now age 21. I started writing this post on Saturday; today is Wednesday. In a couple of days I’ll be … Continue reading
Posted in History, Life, Movies and film, WPLongform (posts of 1000 words or longer)
Tagged "21 Up", documentary film, film, movies, The "Up" series, WPLongform
7 Comments
Watching the “Up” Series (#2, 7 Plus Seven)
This weekend I watched the second film in the “Up” series, 7 Plus Seven. Last week I watched (and wrote this blog post about) the first film, Seven Up. Six more films to go on my way to 56 Up, the … Continue reading