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Filmmaking is one of the highest forms of art and the more we can relay that to the general populace the better we’re doing our job. So to kick off a new weekly series called Movie Detail Mondays, we’re starting with an emotionally compelling scene from ‘The Shawshank Redemption,” one of just two films we’ve ever rated a perfect 10 out of 10.
Sometimes re-visiting those movies can be scary. This is because more often than not, they simply don’t hold up—not necessarily in the filmmaking sense, but in our own mind’s eye. The film hasn’t changed. We have. We’ve matured, or find ourselves in an entirely different phase of life, or recognize that the world has changed.
Just as we correctly predicted a couple of months ago, MoviePass has announced that it is officially shutting down for good today, September 14th, 2019. Let us hang our heads and offer a moment of silence to the groundbreaking martyr of the blessed movie ticket subscription phenomenon which now benefits so many of us.
Luckily for us, Crash Course and PBS also produced a series focusing on film, covering three fascinating aspects of the movie industry: Film History, Film Production, and Film Criticism. All told, the three series are comprised of 49 episodes. We’ll be presenting one every week in our own series that we’re excited to call Film School Fridays.
The best part of the video as a viewer is coming to the understanding of how strategic Kubrick is with his close-up shot. There is such clear, deliberate intent. This gives all of us a greater appreciation of just how involved a director is with his shot selection and how artistically fine-tuned films can really be.
Talk about a curtain call: Renee Zellweger received such rapturous applause for her performance in ‘Judy,’ the movie adaptation of Peter Quilter’s musical ‘End of the Rainbow,’ that she was literally moved to tears—and critics have been buzzing with Oscar talk as a result of the emotionally charged screening.
Fans of our YouTube channel KNOW that we love 'The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.' We have two videos dedicated to the film, which we’ll link below. Therefore it should come as no surprise that we got all hot and tingly when word came out that an extended cut of 'The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford' not only exists, but Roger Deakins wants it released.
Those who are familiar with Quentin Tarantino’s rise to directorial stardom know that he got his start in the “movie business” working as a clerk at a video store, where he lived the life of an obsessive, prototypical movie geek (even his personal hygiene was lacking, as he so candidly admits in one of the interview segments).
