Monday, September 19, 2011

What we've done: September 16th-18th, 2011

- Chuck Bowen did not fall for One Fall. No, not at all. (Boy, this film sounds fucking awful.)

- Sean Burns, to a degree, approves of Vera Farmiga trying to reach that Higher Ground.

- Chris Devlin posted a piece of music from Barn Owl, a band that I suddenly feel really compelled to explore further.

- Jim Emerson continued his examination of editing techniques in action movies by breaking down sequences from Bullit and Don Siegel's awesome The Lineup. I can't wait until he gets to Bad Boys II!

- Rolling back a bit: Daniel Getahun put his site on hiatus. And I missed it. Dammit. Come back whenever you're ready, bud.

- Glenn Heath got all revved up over Drive. Contagion, though, left him nonplussed.

- Craig Kennedy posted a trailer for "Le Help... without the appalling sociopolitics." (Come on, that's a good line.)

- Good God, don't we all wish that what Michael Lieberman is posting here still existed in filmed form. Don't we though.

- Craig Lindsey blurbed Bilal.

- Lucas McNelly pondered an unusual car and other things on the set of that Matthew Lillard film he's working on.

- Phil Nugent wins the Prolific Writer of the Update Award (aka the Abrams): he used If a Tree Falls as an impetus to discuss activisim and terrorism, dug into creative writing departments and their discontents, groused about two flawed films and a ridonkulous DVD commentary and correctly pointed out that it's a damn shame that most people can't name a single Dramarama song outside of "Anything, Anything."

- Scott Von Doviak got into Squidbillies, which by his own admission is a species of hillbilly outside his area of expertise.

- Alison Willmore gave positive reviews to Silent Souls and The Mill and the Cross. America went and threw money at a 15-year-old cartoon instead. Whatever, America.

Today's video: The great experimental filmmaker George Kuchar passed away recently. So, if you haven't seen it, here's his most famous piece of work:

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