Feral Film & Interactive

“Planet 51” (2009) is 51 years of cliches mashed up and rendered in 3D animation. kids...

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:45:05 +0000

“Planet 51” (2009) is 51 years of cliches mashed up and rendered in 3D animation. kids will laugh. extra bit mid-credits.

nice use of stop-motion photography by Robert Caplin, on @Vimeo. even though we could care less...

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:06:20 +0000

nice use of stop-motion photography by Robert Caplin, on @Vimeo. even though we could care less about baseball. http://ping.fm/o0uE4

“The Fall” (2006) is a fantasy for the eyes, with the soul of a wounded child. must be...

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:17:19 +0000

“The Fall” (2006) is a fantasy for the eyes, with the soul of a wounded child. must be seen wide-screeen.

had to completely rewire my video editing synapses just to replace fade-in & fade-out with...

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:52:03 +0000

had to completely rewire my video editing synapses just to replace fade-in & fade-out with freeze frames. metaphors are powerful memes.

woo hoo! i found the “Playhead Info” option. oh, crap. it only shows seconds, no...

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:25:52 +0000

woo hoo! i found the “Playhead Info” option. oh, crap. it only shows seconds, no frames. [sigh]

quick’n’dirty video edit in a coffee shop, on laptop sans Final Cut. iMovie ‘09...

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:21:48 +0000

quick’n’dirty video edit in a coffee shop, on laptop sans Final Cut. iMovie ‘09 is odd. my ol’ school brain wants to see timecode!

thinking “Downfall” (2004) is an extreme close-up of detritus trapped in the gully of...

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:54:31 +0000

thinking “Downfall” (2004) is an extreme close-up of detritus trapped in the gully of modernity’s ebb tide.

watching the end credits is how we come up for air from good cinema. we like it when movies reward...

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:22:07 +0000

watching the end credits is how we come up for air from good cinema. we like it when movies reward us for sitting all the way through.

“No Jews were harmed in the making of this motion picture.” - A Serious Man (2009)

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:08:17 +0000

“No Jews were harmed in the making of this motion picture.” - A Serious Man (2009)

“The Jesuits taught me how to think. I haven’t felt safe since.” - Homicide (1994,...

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 05:28:43 +0100

“The Jesuits taught me how to think. I haven’t felt safe since.” - Homicide (1994, season 3, episode 2) http://bit.ly/3znI6R

planning to watch all of Oliver Stone’s presidential films, starting with “JFK”.

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 03:48:20 +0100

planning to watch all of Oliver Stone’s presidential films, starting with “JFK”.

a rill of sun melted snow, “Northern Exposure’s” affable pilot episode never...

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 02:08:19 +0100

a rill of sun melted snow, “Northern Exposure’s” affable pilot episode never hastens, yet introduces characters at every bend.

we’re starting to watch “Northern Exposure” (1990), from the beginning and in...

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 01:43:05 +0100

we’re starting to watch “Northern Exposure” (1990), from the beginning and in order.

by episode six, “Californication” (2007) just might be budding some soul.

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 04:59:53 +0100

by episode six, “Californication” (2007) just might be budding some soul.

four or five episodes into “Californication” (2007), clever one-liners are budding...

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 07:17:53 +0100

four or five episodes into “Californication” (2007), clever one-liners are budding amidst the hedgerows which corral the plot.

Quentin Tarantino’s World War Two spaghetti western “Inglourious Basterds” (2009)...

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 04:57:50 +0100

Quentin Tarantino’s World War Two spaghetti western “Inglourious Basterds” (2009) is the best film we’ve yet seen at The Robey Theater.

today’s lunch break is a “Buffy” break, with fresh sourdough toast & cheese...

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:05:13 +0100

today’s lunch break is a “Buffy” break, with fresh sourdough toast & cheese from yesterday sojourn into Charleston.

watching Kenneth Branagh’s “Dead Again”. we liked it very much, when it was...

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 02:07:42 +0100

watching Kenneth Branagh’s “Dead Again”. we liked it very much, when it was released in 1991. does it hold up?

moving on to season 4 (2006) of “The Wire”, settling in for a quiet night on the streets...

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 06:02:37 +0100

moving on to season 4 (2006) of “The Wire”, settling in for a quiet night on the streets — and in the halls of power — of Baltimore.

we’ll never know how David Lynch & company would have amplified the soap opera genre, had...

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 02:22:04 +0100

we’ll never know how David Lynch & company would have amplified the soap opera genre, had “Twin Peaks” been funded another year or three.