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Tarantino's strategy: "...have the characters speak at right angles to the action..." - Roger Ebert
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About WilliamJones
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Former Grossmont College student who used to write movie reviews
and other Entertainment pieces for the college paper, The G. Writing
for Epinions isn't quite as fun, but it's a gig.
Not happy with the rating I gave your movie review? Don't go away angry.
Click here to see why I chose a particular rating.
If you can make me laugh, you'll win me over every time. A few writers who
have recently accomplished that: Sordid-1, rittdogg, and Hard_To_Please.
Give them a look.
Hey, John Nesbit, the Editor-In-Chief of CultureDose.net, lists me as a newbie
"who write[s] excellent movie reviews" in his recent (well, not so recent)
My Favorite Film Reviewer at Epinions piece.
Thanks, John!
Movies...that's where it's at. These, then, are writers worth checking out:
Grouch, mangiotto, and Mike_Bracken
A big thanks to Stephen Murray for sending me a VHS copy of Robert Aldrich's
terrific Emperor of the North.
"Space is the most dramatic stylistic entity—from Giotto to Noland, from Intolerance
to Weekend." - Manny Farber
"...the main purpose of criticism...is not to make its readers agree, nice as that
is, but to make them, by whatever orthodox or unorthodox methods, think." - John Simon
"Rain Man is Dustin Hoffman humping one note on a piano for two hours and eleven minutes. It's his dream role." - Pauline Kael
"There was theatre (Griffith), poetry (Murnau), painting (Rossellini), dance (Eisenstein), music (Renoir). Henceforth there is cinema. And the cinema is Nicholas Ray." - Jean-Luc Godard
"I'm very fond of painting and I think that cinematic representation is also pictorial, in the sense that you offer a picture to the spectator and this should be something worth looking at, and you can always shape it for him." - Jacques Demy
"Anybody can shoot in color." - Robert Wise
"I don't agree with those who say that a great music score in a movie is one that you don't notice, maybe because [I've been] formed by years of collecting movie soundtracks. I'm a huge collector and I find that the best music score is not the one that you don't notice but the one that makes you feel that, thanks to it, you understand the movie better. The music should not fade away in the back—that is a bit like the director trying to make a chorus line synchronize its movements with the girl who is lifting her leg the lowest. I expect the music to be high and I expect the other elements to rise to that level." - Guillermo del Toro, Cineaste interview (04/2002)
"Art is a technique of communication. The image is the most complete technique of all communication." - Claus Oldenburg
"...one of the greatest influences on my life was Manny Farber. His film classes were unbelievable. Sideways is actually a sojourn movie... it's influenced by Manny Farber and what happened in UCSD. I give him a lot of credit for where I am today." - Rex Pickett, Jan. 2005
It doesn't matter whether you agree with what Manny [Farber] has to say. I like some Antonioni movies and I like plenty of white elephant movies. But the point is, the description is the most important thing, as opposed to the value judgment. - Kent Jones, Artforum.com
Many of the vast compendiums of movie "reviews" are actually ripped off...and compiled by freelancers who have not seen many of the movies they pass judgment on. The best of the freelancers, of course, steal from me. - Roger Ebert
That's me on the left, with friends Marci and Chrisfor the annual Over-the-Line Tournament(Fiesta Island, Summer 2001)
 Original drawing given to me by "Ren & Stimpy" creator John Kricfalusi
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The Movie Of Your Life Is A Cult Classic
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Quirky, offbeat, and even a little campy - your life appeals to a select few.
But if someone's obsessed with you, look out! Your fans are downright freaky.
Your best movie matches: Office Space (wrong), Showgirls (wrong), The Big Lebowski (okay, one out of three).
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(Have something to say? E-mail me at billjnz@gmail.com; I'd love to hear from you.)
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