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Passing Thought
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Tuesday, 19 February 2008 |
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The rough equivalent in density, intensity and humor to a literary Frownland, John Holliday's 'The Assembly' rushes along its own wonderfully, and wonderful, manic trajectory. To attempt to comprehend, or to likewise identify the roots of the lack of comprehension, or to in any other manner, find out where or how or why a thread of thought is lost and found once again, is near impossible while reading, and yet simultaneously, the story is perfectly comprehensible--which, if one was to think about the incomprehensible being comprehensible, one might find oneself quite confounded and then perhaps later overjoyed, as one easily is at the end of this very exhilarating, exhausting short story. Read the full story. |
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Passing Thought
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Written by Noralil Ryan Fores
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Sunday, 26 August 2007 |
Finding these at a film festival? |
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Written by Noralil Ryan Fores
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Friday, 24 August 2007 |
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SM Editor Noralil Ryan Fores writes her last thoughts on Joe Swanberg's Hannah Takes the Stairs. |
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Monday, 25 June 2007 |
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“I’ve learned more about the human experience, more about myself, more about history from the theater. More about everything from the theater than anyplace else. I’ve learned more about history from Shakespeare than I ever did from history class. I learned more about relationships from Chekov than I ever did from a self-help book. The theater to me is just the best way to teach, the best way to communicate, the best way to save the world. You could sit in Congress all day and listen to law, law, law, but when someone sees a play that hits them here,” he says, his hand placed on his chest, “they change forever. Forever.”~Filmmaker Craig Butta (Coney Island, USA) |
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Thursday, 14 June 2007 |
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“When I started making movies, I thought movies were just a compilation of shots, but I came to realize that movies are much more a compilation of moments. You have to serve the moment…It’s not how you’re going to string your shots together; it’s how you’re going to string your moments together.”~ Filmmaker Mike Ramsdell (Montclair, The Anatomy of Hate, Busted Down on Bourbon Street) |
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Monday, 28 May 2007 |
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"Any kind of artmaking, of course, in aggregate of the arts has profound impact on the culture and society,…but it’s important to make something that adheres to a strong personal impulse or personal vision. It’s important to follow through with that in an uncompromised fashion whether the film is highly personal, whether it’s political, whether it’s a work completely dedicated to aesthetics, whatever it happens to be. Thinking about a broader social impact is just going to kill a project; it’s just going to kill the personal investment. You just have to do what you want to do, put it out there and hope that people respond to it.
"Each individual work of art, even if it's very successful or even if it’s profoundly moving, will not have any major cultural impact most of the time. It all just works as an aggregate; it works as a mass of product. A filmmaker’s duty is to his or her own personal vision and towards making a quality work. Anything beyond that is out of your hands. You can’t worry about that." ~ Andrew Semans (I'd Rather Be Dead Than Live in This World, All Day Long) |
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Monday, 07 May 2007 |
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"I'm not necessarily attracted to simply stories that I write, but I would really love to develop stories that people just have a strong vision of and need to do--primarily new works; I'm not too crazy about the revitalization of classics. I'm really hoping to help people establish themselves...I see too many people who give up. They go to the cubicle job; they take their parents advice and take the easy route. I really want people to follow their dreams. I really want to give people as much opportunity to do that as possible."~ Jon Brence (The Routes of Wild Flowers, Forecast, A Thousand Windows) |
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Monday, 07 May 2007 |
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"As much as all of us—at least I do—have this stupid boy fantasy of, “I want to be famous one day,”…in the end I’m much more interested in seeing what you—the hypothetical you—can bring to the table in terms of working together and collaborating. The one thing that made The Routes of Wild Flowers and my movie Planet successful was that they were really collaborative experiences. Everyone had different skill sets and different experience sets. It was interesting trying to push, pull and see how much you can get out of a film and give to someone to get this whole collaborative process to work."~Kohta Asakura (cinematographer for The Routes of Wild Flowers, director of Planet) |
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Monday, 16 April 2007 |
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"I feel like if you try to connect to an audience, you’re not going to connect to the audience because what you have to say has been diluted. Very often if you say something, most of the time it won’t connect. If it doesn’t connect to anybody, it’s dead, but if it does connect to some people, it’s very powerful. So, that’s always my approach. Don’t concern yourself about whether it’s going to connect with an audience. Just concern yourself with something that you want to say."~Alejandro Cruz (Franky Greene Goes to Town) |
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Monday, 02 April 2007 |
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“I’d hope that every filmmaker would have a desire to move things forward. I certainly do, but it’s certainly not easy. As soon as you open your mouth with something new and experiment and God Forbid try something different, it’s very easy to get hammered back down. People don’t like it as weird as that is. There seems to be a lot of aggressive nature against trying something different.
“It seemed to me that the smarter way to go about making a film would be to redo what had been done before and not really push boundaries or to take small steps. And, I don’t really like that idea. It just seems like if you keep your head down and not pipe up so much, especially with something visual or a different way of telling a story or structuring a film, that your chances of being successful a bit more would be greater. It really took about a year for a lot people to start speaking up and saying, “We really, really like what you’re doing and you need to continue with that,” and being encouraging with that. It felt like there were a lot of discouraging things out there that just enforce mediocrity…I did kind of have that feeling. I don’t know if it’s real.” ~Director Todd Rohal ( The Guatemalan Handshake) |
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