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Focus

This is my favorite part of the movie the inflection point of the story, the false high before it truly bottoms out the narrow depth of field, the tight framing, the backlighting, the music it makes me want to get serious about photography again, to be creative about how I record things, and to have [...]

500 Days of Summer

For a few weeks now, my brother had been bugging me to see (500) Days of Summer. He was pretty insistent that I watch it, starting from my first big awkward talk with her, when I mentioned to him all the ways I felt confused and stupid and hurt in my relationship, and how I [...]

The Rundown

So after finally seeing Up last night, I think this is how it all breaks down, at least for me, in descending order:

Two-and-a-half, continued

“You have a milkshake, and me have a milkshake. And my milkshake goes acroooooooss the room. And I drink your milkshake! I drink it up!” One day, some fifteen years from now, Thomas will watch a semi-obscure movie from when his totally uncool parents were young, and he’ll finally understand where that one random thing [...]

Subtlety

When I first saw 2001 at age 11 or so, the Blue Danube spaceship docking sequence was boring and overly drawn out. I had no idea why Kubrick picked this particular song, and why there weren’t laser beams, TIE fighters, explosions or other displays of interstellar warfare. 10 minutes of a ship approaching a space [...]

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