I recently read a crude article in which some journalist attacked M. Night Shyamalan’s entire career. It was so plain mean, I won’t link to it- you’re left to web search (if you like soggy yellow rags). Anyway, just after skimming this brutal assessment and finding that it went just a step beyond multiple other…
Month: November 2014
The Most Classic Horror Film: “Psycho”
All my life I’ve heard people name Hitchcock’s “Psycho” as the scariest movie they’ve ever seen. I heard the music from Janet Leigh’s murder scene played as a spoof on TV and saw clips of Leigh screaming bloody murder in the shower. I understood that this movie was an icon of horror, but couldn’t get…
“The Lady Vanishes” – To Judge and to Fear
Conspiracy Thrills One life. Hitchcock tended toward the kind of funny that pokes fun at institutions and systems. In “The Lady Vanishes”, the humor and drama are essentially about trusting one’s self in unbelievable situations. To start, the jolly older woman -Ms.Froy- who ends up caught in a conspiracy plot on her way home to…
Choreographing Feeling: “The Grand Budapest Hotel”
I finally got a chance to see Wes Anderson’s latest, “The Grand Budapest Hotel”. I must say that it made me feel like filmmaking was all arts captured and choreographed into colors and shapes before me. The perfection of the character’s movements is ironic, the look and feel of their fortunes and misfortunes is mechanical,…
You know what? 5 Reasons Why “Dear White People” is a Must-See Dramedy
1. Woman with a Camera: In a film which seeks to expose a great number of social issues, giving multiple characters ways of telling and managing their own stories allowed the story to keep moving and these storytellers to keep developing without pausing too much for explanatory notes. When Sam White (Tessa Thompson) holds up…
Reaction to Four Umbrellas – Tupac Martir @NYFOL
Dumbo is small and steep and low. When it rains, it floods. The streets are unsteady, the buildings are old and crumbling, yet they are being reinforced at great expense by hopeful creatives. This damp, previously isolated industrial area is the scene of the first ever New York Festival of Light. From three blocks away,…
Experience the First New York Festival of Light
If you’re in New York at the moment, attend the show tomorrow night! It’s worth it. Stunning visuals, live music, interactive art (and artists), great coffee steps away and ~food carts~ (of course!). Follow the light. For those of you who are elsewhere and wish you could see this in person, I thought I’d capture…
The New York Festival of Light
The experience of walking through Dumbo at night has changed enormously in the past few years. Since the development of Brooklyn Bridge Park and the revitalization of the industrial village as a land of artists and galleries, the area has become a hotspot for tech start-ups and a hub for creative professionals with the opening…
