Movies

Required Listening: Stop Making Sense

03.28.2012 Listening

Here’s another Required Listening (and watching!) recommendation from Andrew Marvin. ___________ The first time I saw Stop Making Sense, I was riveted from the moment the opening credits began to roll. The film had me dancing in my seat for 88 straight minutes. I’d never heard — or seen — anything like it. To say [...]

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How To Watch Star Wars

03.15.2012 Movies

I noticed the other day a discussion about “Star Wars viewing order.” Frankly, I hadn’t thought about it that much, but upon reflection, I do find that I have an opinion on the subject. Therefore, here is my recommended viewing order: Watch Star Wars Watch The Empire Strikes Back Don’t watch anything else You can [...]

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Billions Of Dollars, Theirs For The Taking

02.21.2012 Business

It’s all about sunshine. Jen was home from college the other day and when we settled into Cinema Murray to watch a movie, she said, “Have you seen Sunshine? I really liked it and would watch it again.” We had not, but it was on my list to watch. I didn’t have it in my [...]

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Required Listening: And Now For Something Entirely Different: Animusic

02.01.2012 Listening

This Required Listening contribution is from Penny Mattern. In today’s recommendation she make case for an original musical and visual work in what may become a significant future musical genre. ——————————— A friend of mine some years ago, a software engineer, told me about a video he had seen and had been mightily impressed by, [...]

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Day For Night

12.21.2011 Art

In movie and TV production sometimes it’s necessary to cut corners, to make the best of a limited budget or sub-optimal conditions. They have a type of filming, shooting, that they call “Day For Night.” It literally means “we’ll shoot during the daytime and use filters or other effects to make it appear to be [...]

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