The film cut to black and the audience hesitated. Would the film really just end this way, we asked ourselves, so oddly, so out of place, with such a tonal shift? The credits flashed on the screen at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Austin, confirming our suspicions while signaling the obligatory applause.
→Tags: SXSW, Q&A, Criticism, Sorry, Thanks
EssayAs I’ve been telling people a lot lately, I’ve discovered a sort of “test” that I use when trying to decide how I feel about a film: I casually glance back at the film at a later date.
Huh?
Sounds obvious, right? Well, maybe. Here’s the thing: walking out of the theater, I’m tempted to overreact, positively or negatively, because I’ve just finished experiencing a film.
→Tags: Criticism, Sweeney Todd, Close-Ups, Musicals, Dexter
EssayA friend and I were talking, and he mentioned to me a paraphrase of a quote that says something to the effect of “You have to wait 50 years before you can write history.”
→Tags: Criticism, Harry Potter, American Beauty
EssayThis entry was originally submitted as a comment to a post on Jim Emerson’s Scanners blog, and is referencing one of Andy Horbal’s recent posts, submitted to Jim’s Contrarian Blog-A-Thon.
Jim,
I know you are referencing in part Andy Horbal’s post about blogs and blog-a-thons (regarding structure and the way we go about doing all of this).
→Tags: Criticism, Blog-a-thon, Andy Horbal, Jim Emerson
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