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13 French Street 2007
Film is a visual medium, at least I sure hope it is. Couldn’t find subtitles anywhere for “13 French Street”, so me (a non-francophone) had to sit down and use my eyes and any musical cues to parse out what was going on here. It helps that the film takes the form of the most “cinematic” of literary adaptations: paperback thrillers, with lots of sex and murder and tension and claustrophobia. Somethings transcend language: the frequent use the film makes…
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Pulp Fiction 1994
We need a word in the English language for the sensation that occurs when one watches a film that has been referenced and ascended into becoming a cultural meme (academic sense) since its release. To see images that have become touchstones for a medium in their original status, without any of that cultural “baggage” attached to them. While watching “Pulp Fiction”, countless times I saw shots or bits or gags I recognized from some more contemporary work that was most…
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Star Wars 1977
It would be impossible for me to talk about “A New Hope” in any objective, distance sense. This film is stitched within my DNA: in how I think about writing, in the beauty of the medium, in my life. I spent childhood with my imagination fascinated by the world, my teenage years obsessed with the implications of it, and now in early adulthood both running from it yet still compelled by it. I’ve changed. My relationship to it has changed.…
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