
shots on goal
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April 15, 2004
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Reverse Shot
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Via Fensler I found Reverse Shot magazine, devoted to--as its name suggests--film. It looks very promising. I'm liking the tone of what I've read thus far. They are refreshingly intolerant of dreck such as Ron Howard movies (click on 'director we'd most like to go away and never come back), rightfully generous in reassessing Coppola's One from the Heart (scroll further down), and closer to my reaction to In America than anyone else I've encountered. On the same page, they also note the unfortunate passing of Stan Brakhage, one of cinema's great, severe artists, and someone whom--sadly--almost 100% of the movie-going public will never see or know about. Better to play any number of his shorts before movies than the dreadful cacophony of slides, promo bumpers, and horrific previews we're usually assaulted with. Plus, anyone who would review something in the following way has got to be a-okay in my book: The Lord of the Rings’s chief defect is that it’s too glorious—it is the Albert Speer of contemporary cinema. Its apotheosis is doubly dangerous: first, by letting mere quantity (“scope”) be enough for art; secondly, by signaling the end of film: this is the first Playstation commercial to have been called the greatest film of all time. [emphasis mine] Finally, they give a very nice nod to Fensler's G.I. Joe shorts (see below), have a category "Movies we'll probably never see but hate anyway" (that's built for me!), and take pot shots at other film critics. Always fun! |
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