Month: September 2014
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Cinemaaaah, cont’d
I’ve been doing my best to take notes on as many films as I can, but for now I’ll just compile a list of those watched in the last fortnight… The 39 Steps (d. Hitchcock, 1935) Eyes Wide Shut (d. Kubrick, 1999)* OSS 117: Cairo Nest of Spies (d. Haznavicius, 2006) The Artist (d. Haznavicius, […]
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Destiny breaks many indie records
I’ve been spending the odd hour or two mucking around with Bungie’s latest reasonably small indie game Destiny*. In a combined play time of about 4-5 hours I’ve managed to ascend to level 5 – hopefully this will increase with some more free time over the next couple of weeks. Destiny, despite being a small indie […]
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Abbott government axes community TV
The Federal Communications Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, has announced today that licences for community television will not be renewed in 2016. This means all community television stations will stop broadcasting at the end of next year.
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Michel Chion on film analysis
“The right way to work on a film – to avoid too closed an interpretation – seems to me to be to watch it several times with no precise intentions… As in a police enquiry, one should not set up any hierarchies or look in any particular direction. One should not banish emotions and projections, […]
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It Boy (2013)
I have a big soft spot — a cultured gooey centre, if you will — for French farces. Often romantic comedies, though also often full of slapstick and cases of mistaken identity, I’ll watch the lot. Unfortunately, this habit is dependent on whatever French films period — let alone any from a specific genre — […]
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Hit/Miss: Evolving Narratives and the Semiotics of the Blockbuster
The high-budget, visual-effects-laden Hollywood blockbuster film is among the most popular entertainments of the modern era. While viewing practices continue to change and evolve, the major studios still push out some twenty or thirty films each year with budgets exceeding US$10 million. The blockbuster film is often pushed to the boundaries of film studies as […]
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New site launched
In the hopes of keeping things a bit more contained, and drawing in my various websites, presences and so on, I’ve set up this site. For those of you who haven’t encountered me before, I’m Dan, and I’m a writer, producer, and researcher from Sydney. My primary research focus is film studies, and I’m interested […]
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