March 2009
4 posts
"We Are Croissan'wich" at the East Lansing Film...
So. Moeka and I are flying back from our second festival. It was such a satisfying experience. The festival director, Susan Woods, and the programming director, Nayana Sen, treated us like royalty. The audiences were engaged and enthusiastic. And we met some insanely talented filmmakers and got to compare notes with them. The whole thing was a head trip for me personally because I’ve...
Mar 23rd
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"Changeling" and "Burn After Reading"
Here are two movies I recently watched by directors I became obsessed with in college. Very  different approaches to storytelling. The Coen Brothers are putting on a post-modern vaudeville show with an odd, almost architectural plot,  while Clint focusses on reducing a story to it’s essence. While watching Burn After Reading I was thinking what amazing writers  these guys are, how hard it...
Mar 2nd