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Stealing Chaplin: “A Woman” (1915)
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 […]
the Creator and the Creation
November 27, 2011
(Click here to listen to a reading of: the Creator and the Creation) I once felt like a film buff. I went to film school with other film buffs and so, I was a film buff, too. Everything from the technical to the theoretical, I was swimming in cinema every day. I read about film, […]
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 […]
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 […]
November 29, 2011
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