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Author: Dylan McDonald

How ‘Naatu Naatu’ from RRR Defied the Odds and Took Home an Academy Award

Posted on November 30, 2023November 30, 2023 by Dylan McDonald
In this sequence, Bheem (Jr. NTR) and Ram (Ram Charam) take on a British Bully (Eduard Buhac), a percieved member of British high society who wants to eject them from his decadent lawn party (with the... Read More

(Reader)Bordwell’s Take on Art Cinema as a Mode of Film Practice and Frodon’s Interview with Leos Carax

Posted on November 8, 2023November 8, 2023 by Dylan McDonald
Bordwell’s essay attempts to deconstruct the fundamental tenets of art cinema while drawing parallels to the usual narrative structures of classical narrative cinema, or the studio feature filmm... Read More

(Extra) How 50 Cent Plays a Supporting Roll in “Anatomy of a Fall” 

Posted on November 3, 2023November 3, 2023 by Dylan McDonald
This past Wednesday, I saw the Tara Theater’s screening of Justine Triet’s award-winning “Anatomy of a Fall,” a new French drama/crime film that is on limited release in the U.... Read More

(Viewer) Paris is Burning: Essential, Controversial, or Both?

Posted on November 1, 2023November 1, 2023 by Dylan McDonald
Jennie Livingston’s Paris is Burning is widely regarded as necessary in distribution, all the while garnering scrutiny in execution. Livingston’s direction and narrative exposed a wider ... Read More

(Searcher) The Collaborative Effort in The Making of Citizen Kane

Posted on October 11, 2023October 11, 2023 by Dylan McDonald
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(Reader) Einsteins Dialectic Approach to Film Form and Bazin’s Myth of Total Cinema

Posted on September 28, 2023September 28, 2023 by Dylan McDonald
What I found most interesting about Sergei Einstein’s Dialectic Approach to Film Form was its relationship between conflict and art. Einstein set out to analyze and fully explicate his... Read More

(Searcher) Mise-en-scène: Adam Stockhausen, Production Design, and The World of Wes Anderson

Posted on September 11, 2023September 11, 2023 by Dylan McDonald
https://www.vanityfair.com/video/watch/vf-tricks-of-the-trade-adam-stockhausen-on-asteroid-city This video provided an exciting view into how Wes Anderson structures and shapes his unique setpieces to... Read More

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