Recently, there was a tribute concert held for rapper MF DOOM at Tyler, The Creator’s music festival, Camp Flog Gnaw. Though I was not in attendance, my YouTube feed recommended me a visual and ...Read More
This week’s readings were incredibly insightful and fun to read, especially due to the fact that it focused around the idea of “Art Cinema” (according to Bordwell). In an age where a...Read More
I found myself at odds with Paris is Burning. Jennie Livingston’s vividly candid documentary utilizes the aesthetic of ballroom culture to the maximum, leaving the viewer unable to look away eve...Read More
I think we can all agree that Charles Foster Kane was bigger than life, that his character and story arc fit his status as a newspaper tycoon and the protagonist in Citizen Kane. However, in the case ...Read More
I would like to believe that everybody else struggled with the readings as much as I did, so I will provide a brief summary of Eisenstein and Bazin’s respective ideas. It appears that Eisenstein...Read More
While I personally am not too crazy about All That Heaven Allows, I do admire just how straightforward its editing is as the narrative develops. From what I can tell, Sirk utilizes continuity editing ...Read More
Upon watching The Grand Budapest Hotel for what is now the third time, I took particular interest in a specific aspect of mise-en-scene (forgive me, I do not have the accent marks): costuming! A large...Read More