Chicago FEEDBACK Film Festival
Toronto, Los Angeles…..and now CHICAGO. LOGAN Cinemas in midtown Chicago.
We all have to start somewhere, and that’s okay. I recently just re watched the first short film I have ever made.. and boy was it rough. But it’s not good to be critical of our past works, because we have since grown and expanded our knowledge of filmmaking. I’m going to share with you […]
5 Things I’ve learned Since Making My First Short Film — Cinematic Breakdown and Review
Synopsis A gentle Jewish-Italian waiter, Guido Orefice (Roberto Benigni), meets Dora (Nicoletta Braschi), a pretty schoolteacher, and wins her over with his charm and humor. Eventually they marry and have a son, Giosue (Giorgio Cantarini). Their happiness is abruptly halted, however, when Guido and Giosue are separated from Dora and taken to a concentration camp. […]
Life is Beautiful (1997) Film Review — Cinematic Breakdown and Review
The 1980’s saw the emergence of a new sub-genre of film known as the “teen” movie. While there were certainly films about teenagers before that decade, such as the teen beach movies starring Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello in the 50s, those films were more about the beach and the music. The 80’s teen […]
Jumping Jiggowats!: Celebrating Back to the Future: Pt. 1: Marty McFly — Jonathon D. Svendsen
50 Years Ago, The Beatles Made History On the Billboard Hot 100 There was a universe out there and The Beatles were spanning their own cosmos. The fab four from Liverpool, England dominated the world with their cultural and musical impact. John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr were across the universe […]
Let It Be — Billboard Chart Rewind
The Nikon F3 is an iconic 35mm SLR camera, with the distinctive red line. Being one of my main manual cameras, I have written my thoughts about it.
Nikon F3 – Legend with a red stripe — Photo Thinking
It’s New Year’s once again, a time to celebrate humanity surviving long enough to make one more lap around the sun. Instead of doing this by spending time with family and friends, I decided to spend my time hunched over the computer waxing poetic about werewolf movies. I did something similar last year, compiling a […]
My Top Ten Favorite Werewolf Movies (+1) — William Tea
In 1945 the world still had time for one decent old-school mad scientist film before the genre imploded on itself. Swedish heart-throb Nils Asther shines in a Dorian Gray-inspired major studio production by Paramount about a 120 year old genius searching for the secret of everlasting life, while telling everyone around him that he is only 35. 6/10
The Man in Half Moon Street — scifist 2.0
Although they had appeared onscreen together in The Lucky Dog (1921), the Hal Roach short Duck Soup (1927) marks the first time Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy were paired as comedy leads. They play a couple of hoboes who flee a surly forest ranger conscripting tramps to fight a raging fire. The film begins in […]
How Laurel and Hardy Filmed Duck Soup — Chaplin-Keaton-Lloyd film locations (and more)
Call & Response had a conversation with Will Ayers about imagination, Zoom, individualism, and much more.
“Let’s dust off our imaginations”: In Conversation with Bill Ayers — Call & Response
The Pride of the Yankees, 1942, RKO Radio Pictures. Starring Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright. Co-starring Babe Ruth. Directed by Sam Wood. B&W, 128 minutes. The son of immigrant parents, Lou Gehrig (Gary Cooper) takes an interest in the All-American sport of baseball at an early age. He’d like to pursue it as a career, but […]
The Pride of the Yankees — Classic for a Reason
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