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A Filmmaker's Guide to: "The Jazz Singer" (1927)
In this chapter of ‘the filmmaker’s guide’ we are going to explore some of the films that have changed our outlook of the possibilities in cinema in some way, shape or form. These can include, but are not limited to: revolutionary cinematography, narratives that challenge the social structure and the common view, trademark styles of auter cinema, brilliant adaptations of novels and other works, films of philosophical value and films that touch our hearts and souls with their incredible underlying messages and morals. Within each of the films in this chapter there is a certain something that makes them special and a certain something that makes them linger long after we have watched them for the first time. Lasting impressions are difficult to create, but I think that the films we will briefly touch on in this chapter are some of the films we will never ever forget.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Geeks
Beauty & The Beast...
It was 1977, the year of my birth and a new TV pilot movie was being filmed in California. Not only was it a hit, but spawned one of the longest running and most influential TV shows of the era, whose legacy is still felt in the biggest movie franchise of all time.
By Rob Taylor5 years ago in Geeks
The Brave Little Toaster - A Movie Review
Do you ever wonder if the appliances throw a party as soon as you leave the house? Based on the book by the late Thomas M. Disch, The Brave Little Toaster is a 1987 animated film about five appliances traveling into the world to find their owner. Along this perilous journey, they encounter a waterfall, an evil shop appliance owner, but most importantly they learn about friendship.
By Marielle Sabbag5 years ago in Geeks
Classic Movie Review: 'Some Like it Hot'
If you told me that I could only save one legendary film director’s career and the rest were to be destroyed, I would probably choose to save Billy Wilder’s remarkable catalog. Don’t get me wrong, I would miss Alfred Hitchcock or Michael Curtiz or Ernst Lubitsch but Wilder’s catalog has movies I simply cannot live without. The Seven Year Itch, The Apartment, Ace in the Hole, and Some Like It Hot are movies I could not think of losing forever.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
The Iconography of Bogart and Bacall
The Big Sleep is the classic on this week's Everyone's a Critic Movie Review Podcast. We haven’t passed the title card and I am hooked by The Big Sleep. So massive and singular were Bogart and Bacall that Director Howard Hawks flashes up a silhouette of Bogart lighting Bacall’s cigarette and he knows that we know what we are seeing. This duo is so iconic that something as simple as a man lighting a woman’s cigarette is a recognizable image, a signifier of Bogart and Bacall’s couples aesthetic.
By Sean Patrick6 years ago in Geeks
Classic Movie Review: 'They Live' is John Carpenter at His Best
As a film critic one of my most reviled and despised opinions is that I don't care for John Carpenter’s 1978 horror movie Halloween. I find the film to be amateurish, if I may be frank, with an almost absurd level of over-praise for its filmmaking. Thankfully, my disdain for Halloween was not enough to sour me on the work of John Carpenter as a whole. I was lucky that I stuck with Carpenter as movies like The Fog, Escape from New York and the movie I am writing about today, 1988’s They Live, are genuinely brilliant movies, far more worthy of praise than Halloween.
By Sean Patrick6 years ago in Geeks
Be Kind, Rewind: Why We Can Still Enjoy Classic Movies
In honour of its 40th anniversary of release, ScreenRant decided to release an article detailing why horror classic 'The Shining' (1980) has 'not aged well'. In this article, ScreenRant labelled the movie as one that is misogynistic and flippant towards such pressing and sensitive issues as familial abuse.
By Dani Buckley6 years ago in Geeks
