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Best geek movies throughout history.
Movie Review: 'Judas and the Black Messiah'
In January of 1990, a documentary called Eyes on the Prize 2 was aired on PBS. The documentary contained the one and only interview ever conducted with former FBI informant Ron O’Neal. The documentary aired on the night of Martin Luther King Jr Day and that night, after the documentary aired, Ron O’Neal committed suicide by walking into oncoming traffic. Seemingly, O’Neal could no longer live with what he’d done as an FBI informant in the late 1960’s.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
A Filmmaker's Guide to: The Extreme Close-Up
In this chapter of ‘the filmmaker’s guide’ we’re actually going to be learning about literature and film together. I understand that many of you are sitting in university during difficult times and finding it increasingly hard to study and I understand that many of you who are not at university or not planning on it are possibly stuck of what to do, need a break or even need to catch up on learning film before you get to the next level. This guide will be brief but will also contain: new vocabulary, concepts and theories, films to watch and we will be exploring something taboo until now in the ‘filmmaker’s guide’ - academia (abyss opens). Each article will explore a different concept of film, philosophy, literature or bibliography/filmography etc. in order to give you something new to learn each time we see each other. You can use some of the words amongst family and friends to sound clever or you can get back to me (email in bio) and tell me how you’re doing. So, strap in and prepare for the filmmaker’s guide to film studies because it is going to be one wild ride.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Geeks
Mank (2020): The Mirror Image of Citizen Kane
Recently David Fincher’s “Mank” made me very disappointed because there wasn’t enough Orson Welles in it, however the similarities of “Mank” (2020) and Citizen Kane (1941) were intentionally uncanny from the start. From it’s unique sound profile to its lush black and white cinematography to classic courier typewriting text, Mank is a love letter to the Golden Age of Hollywood and to one of it’s enigmatic screenwriter at the time, Herman Mankiewicz.
By Francesco Joseph 5 years ago in Geeks
Documentary Review 'More than Miyagi: The Pat Morita Story'
What do you know about Pat Morita? You likely know that he was Mr Miyagi in The Karate Kid. If you’re older you may remember Morita as Arnold, the proprietor of the restaurant hang out for the Happy Days gang. But did you know that Pat Morita found his first success as a stand up comic? I sure didn’t and the problematic aspects of his fame in the 1960s and 1970s is a cringe inducing trip into the American history of racism.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
A Filmmaker's Guide to: The Top Down Shot
In this chapter of ‘the filmmaker’s guide’ we’re actually going to be learning about literature and film together. I understand that many of you are sitting in university during difficult times and finding it increasingly hard to study and I understand that many of you who are not at university or not planning on it are possibly stuck of what to do, need a break or even need to catch up on learning film before you get to the next level. This guide will be brief but will also contain: new vocabulary, concepts and theories, films to watch and we will be exploring something taboo until now in the ‘filmmaker’s guide’ - academia (abyss opens). Each article will explore a different concept of film, philosophy, literature or bibliography/filmography etc. in order to give you something new to learn each time we see each other. You can use some of the words amongst family and friends to sound clever or you can get back to me (email in bio) and tell me how you’re doing. So, strap in and prepare for the filmmaker’s guide to film studies because it is going to be one wild ride.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Geeks
Meet Darth Jar Jar In Amazing 'Star Wars' Fan Art
Think back to the first time we met Jar Jar Binks. The silly and unique Gungan native to the planet Naboo had been banished from his home. Within the first few minutes of meeting him in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace, you can deduce the reason why the younger Obi-Wan Kenobi thought of him as a pathetic lifeform. He was clumsy, perhaps to the extreme. His crashing of the Gungan leader Boss Nass’s heyblibber submarine caused his exile. We can only speculate as to the size and severity of the collateral damage caused by this mistake (or culmination of mistakes) that they banished him from his home, never to return under the penalty of death.
By Culture Slate5 years ago in Geeks
A Filmmaker's Review: "Onibaba" (1964)
"Onibaba" - the demoness, the demon hag, a demon all the very same. You may think of something far more complicated when you hear that word than the film actually puts out. When a man returns home alone, without a woman's husband and without another woman's son, he is reprimanded for not looking after them. He is ostracised for returning home without his pals. When he seduces the widow of one of the dead men, she goes visiting him regularly whilst war rages on around the tall grass maze in which they live. Her mother is distraught, not believing that the man is in any way, good news. Telling her daughter a story about heaven and hell, she tries to scare her daughter into submission to her rules through religion but it doesn't work. It doesn't work until one night a demon appears to her daughter. A demon chases her back home, intercepting her journey to her new lover. But there are terrifying consequences for everyone involved.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Geeks
An Unrealized Gem of a Movie
Like everything else that we will remember from the year that was filled with Trumpisms and Coronavirus the year 2020 was especially hard on Hollywood and the movie industry from top to bottom. Hollywood shut down from fear of the Coronavirus spread. Movie theaters like every business got hit with shutdowns and a lack of people willing to risk being there, from fear of the Coronavirus. Movies barely made it to the theaters and those that did make it often had shorter runs with far fewer viewers in attendance. One of those movies that made it to theaters but did not make it far up the box-office rankings, was FREAKY, from the horror folks over at Blumhouse Films.
By Jason Ray Morton 5 years ago in Geeks
“Is he a poet?”: Questions of British National Identity and Love in A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
Postcolonialism and the world wars had a devastating impact on Britain in numerous ways. However, the national identity of Britain remained the most ambiguous and at risk as the weight of imperial sins began to sink in. Britain’s strength and independence as a nation was greatly tested during World War II, as attacks were made directly on British soil and Britain found itself unable to win the war without additional support and resources. This instability is explored in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s 1946 film A Matter of Life and Death, which examines the strange romantic relationship between a British soldier, Peter (David Niven), and an American radio operator, June (Kim Hunter), that begins after Peter survived what should have been a deadly fall from his crashing plane. The film beckons the audience to not compare the event in the film to those in real life, however, the making of the film right at the end of World War II suggests that the war in the film itself is also World War II. Throughout the film, the mise-en-scène emphasizes a rich British history that reminds the audience of a British national identity that had been effectively forgotten during World War II. The film showcases a world of juxtapositions between the rational and irrational through the film’s emphasis of British literary traditions, spirituality, and law. The endless contradictory dichotomies are proven irrelevant when love is showcased as the one thing that is both rational and irrational by the end of the film. Peter and June’s relationship should not exist and yet their love is proved valid in the realms of the film. This ultimate relationship between an American woman and a British man renders the question of British national identity utterly superfluous in the name of love allowing for an entirely new identity to be made, while acknowledging the traditional British identity.
By Lilyann Loraye5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Earwig and the Witch' Not Your Father's Studio Ghibli Movie
Earwig and the Witch is a significant change of pace for the well known animation brand of Studio Ghibli. After decades of being defined by the grace and style of founder, Hiyao Miyazaki, the master’s retirement means new voices in the lead. One of those new voices is none other than the master’s own son, Goro Miyazaki. In his third directorial feature, Earwig and the Witch, Goro Miyazaki is among the first of Studio Ghibli’s stable to chart a new course for the company.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
