There is a moment in Ridley Scott’s “Blade Runner” (1982) when Rick Deckard (a detective played with disgruntled bravado by Harrison Ford) stares at a photograph. Yet he doesn’t just stare: Using a computer, he enhances the image and studies it so intently that he looks like one of the movie’s legendarily obsessive fans—or a […]
Day: June 16, 2017
Pulling Focus: A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)
“A film can be like a dream. It’s a fairy tale. It’s not beholden to rules or laws of the real world. I have no loyalty to the real world. Fuck the real world. Why would I make a film to try and show you what it’s like here?” – Ana Lily Amirpour Oh, […]
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The 20 Greatest Screenwriters of All Time
As we view a cinematic work, elements like narrative and plot structuring are indispensible to our judgment of it, even if we don’t notice their relevance right away. The way a story is told, an idea is explored and an artistic sensibility is expressed determines, to a large extent, our personal preferences when it comes […]