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Over the Moon: A view of Hugo (2011)
When I learned of Martin Scorsese’s latest film, Hugo, I needed to know nothing more than the release date. It was only by accident that I discovered that the film is about a boy in an old Parisian train station who somehow connects with one of time’s earliest, real life filmmakers, Georges Méliés. We owe […]
Stealing Chaplin: “A Woman” (1915)
November 29, 2011
Tonight, I avenged all the times I had to sit in rickety old plastic chairs in cold classrooms and stare at the back of another student’s head while classic films played right before me. I consider those stolen times which implies that I can steal them back and really, I’m all for thievery. I hardly […]
Art, In Any Form
June 3, 2011
I like to think of myself as a cultured, open minded girl. I appreciate the weird and the unusual and often try new things. While traveling abroad I even added to my adopted motto of “try everything once” with, “and then try it again”. When I can’t understand something I usually find something I can […]
Disgraced Melancholia
May 24, 2011
Several years ago I unwillingly ended up in a 10-week film course that brought director Lars von Trier into my life. It was suppose to be a class that studied one film for the entire semester, but, perhaps inspired by von Trier himself, the professor strayed from the rules and fed us Dogme and what […]
BBC NEWS | Europe | Germans learn to laugh at Hitler
March 1, 2011
Click Here: BBC NEWS | Europe | Germans learn to laugh at Hitler. This is an article from 2007, but a topic that is very much relevant to my own experience and to Germany today. Within one week of living in Germany, I’ve been told several times that I should never, ever, ever, EVER mention […]
Dear NYU Rejection Letter, I Forgive You
August 17, 2010
Thanks to Netflix instant play, hours of my life are spent organizing an endless queue of movies, browsing films I’ve never heard of, and then watching all of them. Not only do I not feel guilty about this, I actually feel accomplished. That’s one of the privileges of calling yourself a filmmaker and storyteller. It’s […]
December 8, 2011
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