Can't add anything to the MEGALOPOLIS debate... except words. dcairns.wordpress.com/2024/10/01/m...
MEGALOPOLIS: A FOIBLE Yes so I did see Francis Ford Coppola’s MEGALOPOLIS: A FABLE and yes it is a hot mess, or maybe even a lukewarm mess given its long gestation, but the question before us…
alright I got myself added to a "Film Twitter" kind of list, so I better pay up. one of the things I do here, apart from talking about my dogs and being angry about Gaza, is plug Letterboxd posts by Dan Sallitt (@sallitt.bsky.socialletterboxd.com/sallitt/
sallitt uses Letterboxd to share film reviews and lists. 287 films watched. Favorites: Morocco (1930), Rio Bravo (1959), Angel (1937), Only Angels Have Wings (1939). Bio: This account is for after-scr...
Early cinema, contiguity editing, state of the art in 1906... dcairns.wordpress.com/2024/09/27/a...
Returning to the nerdy subject of contiguity editing — the matching of shots so that characters exit one side of frame and enter the next scene from the opposite side, preserving their direct…
Heartwarming reaction from my students to this heartbreaking film. dcairns.wordpress.com/2024/09/25/c...
Cocteau's ORPHEE made a great first screening: would recommend for film teachers everywhere. (I once showed LA BELLE ET LA BETE and inexplicably that wasn't embraced so warmly.) Then I showed BLACK NA...
