Dive into the archives.
- Proud Flesh: An Introduction (1808 days remain)
Well, it’s been a few weeks, so now’s a good time for me to introduce my first major project along this five year journey. It’s a screenplay for a feature tentatively titled Proud Flesh.
Proud Flesh is the story of Iris MacKinnon, an unassuming twenty-eight year old horse trainer who returns to her hometown for a [...]
- Cars (2006) (1811 days remain)
I was probably the biggest backer of Cars among anyone I knew - people told me for months how terrible they thought it looked, how it’d be the first stinker from Pixar, but I was steadfast: “No no no. The Incredibles had a terrible trailer too, and look how that came out.” So now [...]
- The Wolf Man (1941) (1813 days remain)
THE WOLF MAN has an unfortunate reputation as one of the hoariest and least compelling of the classic Universal horror films that served as a major element of that studio’s production slate throughout the 1930s. Its director George Waggner never found fame in the same way that Tod Browning and James Whale did, living out [...]
- Auditing a Class (1814 days remain)
Last year’s Telluride Film Festival, and specifically the presentation by New York University professor/Oscar-winning animator John Canemaker of some of his favorite classic animated shorts (The Band Concert, Feed the Kitty, Composition in Blue, Free Radicals, among others), revived a long-dormant interest in animation as a mode of cinematic expression - I’ve always loved animation, [...]
- My Three Month Plan (1814 days remain)
I thought about punctuating this post with a half-dozen images of recent me, with my emerging double-chin and my vaguely amorphous body, but instead, I’ll let you imagine it for yourself. Somewhere senior year, in the midst of two-term thesis projects, running a film society, and general senior-year stress and hijinks, I gained a bit [...]
- A Prairie Home Companion (1815 days remain)
It’s strange the way that reading about authorial intent colors a reading of a text - would I have, as many have, reveled in A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION as a joyful and exuberant celebration, Altman’s most purely enjoyable work in years, had I not read Nick Pinkerton’s insightful interview with Altman [...]
- I Went to Rome, Pt. 2 (1816 days remain)
I have pictures of my trip to Rome:
- I Went to Rome (1816 days remain)
One of the primary features of travel, especially for those of us bound to the apparati of the modern world, is the way that it disconnects us from our normal flow of life. This replacement - of routine with urgency, passivity with activity, and steadfastness with irregularity - has of course both positive and negative [...]
- Back From Rome (1818 days remain)
I’m tired. Pictures and thoughts tomorrow, as well as further explanation of the logistics of this blog.
- So I graduated. (1,826 days remain)
If I had written it in a script, I would have tossed it in a second draft as being hackneyed and inanely metaphorical: after a month of near-continuous rain, the cloudy skies of New Hampshire cleared briefly this morning as Dartmouth College celebrated its Commencement exercises, one of which was, of course, the graduation of [...]
