The 48 Hour Film Festival
In 2007, I made a film for the Nashville 48 Film Festival. If you’re not familiar with the fest, teams from around each city must write, shoot, and edit a 4-7 minute film in just 48 hours. The teams are given a line of dialogue, a prop, a character, and a hat-pulled genre. I’d like [...]
Thoughts on Winter's Bone
Winter’s Bone is by far and wide the best reviewed live action American film of the year (beat out on Metacritic only by the Ozu re-release I was Born, But. . ., the brilliant Un Prophete, and Toy Story 3.) The modern day Ozark noir has some of the best performances of recent memory, a [...]
7 Reasons You're Irrationally Clinging to Your DVD Collection
Over the past year, I’ve been gradually selling off my dvd collection on Ebay. Last Sunday, I listed the final stragglers. Once the auctions are paid for and shipped, I will be, in effect, dvd-less for the first time in 10 years. And that fills me with a mixture of loss and freedom. A dvd [...]
