February 2012
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audreyrouget asked: Do you recommend The Myth of the American Sleepover?
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“Liberal institutions, and the power elite, from the media to museums to the...”
– Chris Hedges - Death of the Liberal Class, “Politics as Spectacle”, p.115.
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“When the web started, I used to get really grumpy with people because they put...”
– Neil Gaiman on Copyright, Piracy, and the Commercial Value of the Web.
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Carissa’s Wierd performing “Blankets...
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“Must movies not be depressing? Must major studios not release them if they are?...”
– Roger Ebert (via cocknbull)
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“Arts schools produce, along with departments devoted to the sciences and...”
– Chris Hedges - Death of the Liberal Class, “Politics as Spectacle”, p115.
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“The liberal class, believing it had to fit its ideas into the new sloganeering...”
– Chris Hedges - Death of the Liberal Class, “Dismantling the Liberal Class”, p88.
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“War’s effects are what the state and the media, the handmaidens of the...”
– Chris Hedges - Death of the Liberal Class, “Permanent War”, p56.
January 2012
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The Conflicted Interests & Vulgar Priorities of...
The following is a version of an editorial I submitted to The Peak (Simon Fraser University’s student newspaper) in response to an opinion piece by Mary-Claire Turner of The Genocide Awareness Project. This features an additional paragraph I wrote after the article was printed.
Mary-Claire Turner’s opinion piece in The Peak on behalf of the Genocide Awareness Project is a pertinent...
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Dr. Michael Eric Dyson teaches Eric Erickson a... →
Dr. Michael Eric Dyson tries to give Eric Erickson a lesson on racism in America. Watching Dyson speak, and observing Erickson and Anderson Cooper’s dumbfounded reaction to the academic quality of his language, is a sad reminder of how lowbrow and anti-intellectual the sociological and political discourse is in the mainstream media. The format of these television news programs is clearly...
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Film Diary 2011
Below is a list of the feature films I watched for the first time in 2011, roughly in order from January to December. I may have excluded some foreign titles, because I was keeping track on Flixster and couldn’t find everything in the database. Please note that this does not include re-watches, short films, and titles I may have forgotten to take note of.
Cyrus (2010, The Duplass Brothers,...
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December 2011
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Essay - Digitalisation's Effects on Cinema →
I won’t post the whole thing here, but this link is to an essay I wrote last spring for a mid-level communications class. My tutorial leader didn’t care for it much, but I revisited it while cleaning out some older folders and thought it would be worthwhile posting for fellow filmmakers to read. The paper is an overview of the how technological innovation, specifically the phenomenon of...
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November 2011
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“As hard as the NYPD and New York City’s government might try to obscure the...”
– James Downie in The Washington Post: “Bloomberg’s Disgraceful Eviction of Occupy Wall Street”.
wordvomittt asked: Hey there, i like your blog! Im an aspiring filmmaker so its cool to meet like minded people ^_^
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“I don’t want to show things to the camera. I want the camera to find...”
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WatchRachel Maddow points out the revolting and threatening misogynist comments coming from the Herman Cain campaign, as well as the media’s sexist character assassination of his accusers on behalf of the campaign.
A lawyer who implicitly threatens to sue or defame a potential victim of sexual harassment is in effect discouraging all victims of harassment at the hands of prolific public figures...
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“The theme for me is love and the lack of it. We all want that and we don’t know...”
– Ryan Gosling proves himself to be both thoughtful and good looking.
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Essay - Orientalism as Oppression →
I won’t post the full text here, but if anyone is interested in reading a short essay I wrote for my Egyptian film class entitled “Orientalism Oppression”, I have posted it on my website. The paper gives a brief description of the term, how it functions to oppress the peoples in colonised states, and how it influences the media. It specifically looks at an Egyptian melodrama from...
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Q&A - Choch Business Case Study
SAIT student and fellow independent filmmaker Nick Haywood is writing a case study of my film Choch for his Business of Film class. I enjoyed answering his questions and thought some of what I had to say might be of interest to the audience of the film and my other work. NH: Where did the inspiration come to center your primary existential questions on the social symbol of a Choch? Was this from...
October 2011
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VIFF 2011 Recap
Films I saw at the 2011 Vancouver International Film Festival:
The Skin I Live In (Pedro Almodovar, Spain) B-
The Kid With a Bike (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, France) A+
Dreileben: Beats Being Dead (Christian Petzold, Germany) A-
Dreileben: Don’t Follow Me Around (Dominik Graf, Germany) B
Dreileben: One Minute of Darkness (Christoph Hochhausler, Germany) C
Our Future (Iizuka...
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WatchThe best band in the world playing a Tiny Desk concert for NPR.
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“At present, fulfilling professional expectations of balance in the news media...”
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September 2011
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“I’ve been asking myself a lot recently because every job I’ve been doing, I find...”
– Ryan Gosling
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“Surrounded as one is by babble and mendacity, it’s nonetheless important...”
– Christopher Hitchens - “Minority Report,” The Nation, 5/11/85.
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“Actors have to give a performance, but they don’t have a violin between them and...”
– Francis Ford Coppola - from a conversation with the audience at TIFF 2011, after the premiere of his new film Twixt.