The Passport Stamp
Sleepless Night
Title: Sleepless Night (Nuit Blanche) Genre: Action/Thriller Origin: France – 102 minutes Cast: Tomer Sisley, Birol Unel, Lizzie Brochere, Serge Riaboukine, Julien Boisselier Crew: Written & Directed By Frederic Jardin Players: Vincent, Yilmaz, Vignali, Marciano, Lacombe Plot: Vincent, a corrupt policeman, has until midnight to return a large drug stash to a mob boss in a nightclub in order to get his kidnapped son back. The Scoop: It’s very easy to fall in love with... Read More
Passport Stamp: Paris, I Love You
Title: Paris, je t’aime (Paris, I Love You) (2006) Origin: France – 120 minutes Genre: Drama/Comedy/Romance/Suspense/Horror, etc. Synopsis: A movie where there are 20 different stories, rolling in a variety of stars and genres. Paris, I Love You is more of an experiment that succeeded. Twenty well-known filmmakers like Gus Van Sant, the Coen Brothers, Alfonso Cuaron, Wes Craven, and Tom Tykwer are charged with a five-minute window to shoot a short film around the city... Read More
Passport Stamp: Let the Right One In
Title: Let the Right One In Origin: Sweden – 115 minutes Genre: Horror Synopsis: A much bullied twelve year old, Oskar is an only child with divorced parents. One day, he meets Eli, a 12 year old girl who recently moved into the apartment next door with her father who bars the windows from any sunlight. Eli is strange; she’s always barefooted, dresses lightly (not minding the never-ending cold and snow), and figures out a Rubik’s cube in a couple of days. While school... Read More
Passport Stamp: Spirited Away
Title: Spirited Away (2001) Origin: Japan – 125 minutes Genre: Animated/Fantasy Filmmaker: Hayao Miyazaki Synopsis: Spirited Away is a wondrous fantasy about a young girl, Chihiro, trapped in a strange new world of spirits. When her parents undergo a mysterious transformation, she must call upon the courage she never knew she had to free herself and return her family to the outside world. Technical Aspects: If one could bring a camera into the animated world, Hayao Miyazaki... Read More
Passport Stamp: Maria Full of Grace
Title: Maria Llena de Gracia (Maria Full of Grace) (2004) Origin: Colombia – 101 minutes Genre: Drama/Crime Synopsis: Things never go as planned when you have 62 pellets of cocaine in your stomach. After getting fired from her crappy floriculture job in a small village in Colombia, Maria decides to follow her friend to the United States as a drug mule after she finds out that she’s pregnant. Technical Aspects: There’s no special techniques other than traditional... Read More
Awards Season
My Oscar Picks 2011
Picture, Leading Actor, Leading Actress, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, Animated Feature, Art Direction, Cinematography, Costume Design, Directing, Documentary Feature, Film Editing, Foreign Language Film, Makeup, Original Score, Original Song, Sound Mixing, Sound Editing, Visual Effects, Adapted Screenplay, Original Screenplay
Versus
Choppy or Continuous? Cabaret vs Children of Men
Today, I will compare and contrast two different styles of editing by using examples from the films Cabaret and Children of Men in order to properly demonstrate the art form and structure needed in film editing. One may wonder what exactly is editing? In film, editing is the process to which all footage, sounds, and additions come together. Over time in movie history, film editing has become an art form in the whole filmmaking process.
Movie Reviews
The Avengers
Strictly from an action standpoint, the film does a marvelous job at understanding the limits of each of the heroes’ abilities. The film sets up these super beings in particular situations to show us how their powers and skills work in action while fully realizing how effective and ineffective they can be.
Extra! Extra!
Harry Potter Craze!!!
Chicago has Harry Potter fever, why does it seem like all the answers to life will be revealed. What will happen to Harry? How will it all end. I very much enjoy the joy everyone seems to be getting from a movie that has brought a whole nation together. The power of literature, an imagination [...]
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