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The Archives: Film
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[Cross-posted from Blank Slate.]
Great post by Robert Starling (via Gideon Burton) on Mormon Renaissance yesterday, called High Expectations for Mormon Filmmakers. This part was particularly inspiring:
In …
My friends Torben and Marissa wrote and directed a film last year, Wrestling With God: A Three-Way Conversation on Mormonism. It played at the LDS Film Festival but …
There’s a new camcorder on the block. As written about in David Pogue’s New York Times review (thanks to 37signals for the link), enter the Flip:
The …
This’ll be quick. Tonight I went to the Classical 89 silent movie night in the de Jong concert hall, where they showed Buster Keaton’s film The General, complete with …
As disciples of Christ, we talk a lot about enduring to the end and just how on earth (since heaven’s still a bit out of reach) we’re supposed to make …
Can I just say that MacWorld Expo is one of my favorite events each year? It’s like Christmas and my birthday all rolled into one. (The embarrassing …
Ever since I heard that The Dark Is Rising was going to be made into a movie, I was of course pins and needles with excitement. Then a few …
From Yahoo News:
NEW YORK — Peter Jackson and New Line Cinema have reached agreement to make J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Hobbit,” a planned prequel to the blockbuster trilogy “The Lord …
Looks like I get an early peek at PBS’s Christmas present to me: Masterpiece Theatre is broadcasting all six Jane Austen novels (Emma, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Pride …
It’s snowing. A lot. And I’m tucked up somewhat cozily on the fifth floor of the library, pecking away on this post as I do my darndest to …
13. Substantia
I came across a neat short film (animation, really) this morning. It’s called Substantia, and while at first I wondered what was going on, it became clear pretty …
One of my friends once said to me, “You know, chick flicks are more science fiction than science fiction.” In a way, it’s true. But let’s not forget …
15. Mind wide open
I love to cry. Not in public, of course. But when I’m on my own, there’s nothing quite as refreshing as a good cry. It’s not something …
So this is what 3 a.m. looks like? It’s been many, many years since I was up this late. I just got back from the midnight showing of …
Today’s post will be a triptych, like those old three-part paintings (in case you were wondering what “triptych” means and if it does indeed have anything to do with “cryptic”). …
“For I, the Lord God, created all things, of which I have spoken, spiritually, before they were naturally upon the face of the earth.” –Moses 3:5
In my creative work — …
It’s been a while since my last post about my job, so here’s an update on what’s been happening.
We finished going through all the books last week and started …
20. Frenzied scripts
Following on the success of NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), the same team has created Script Frenzy:
Script Frenzy is an international writing event in which participants attempt the …
21. Off the edge
It doesn’t surprise me: Richard Dutcher is “no longer a practicing member of the church.” In a Daily Herald article, Dutcher gives his “parting words” on Mormon movies:
I …
22. The Testaments
Finally! After I don’t know how many years, The Testaments of One Fold and One Shepherd (the movie that played up on Temple Square before the new Joseph …
23. One short of ten
1. I just took a humanities test in the testing lab downstairs. Shortly after I arrived, some guy came in and sat down in the row in front of …
Just finished watching Shadowlands. (We had a showing as a C.S. Lewis Society activity.) And this time, as always, it left me scarcely able to speak. Sometimes …
Yesterday I got an e-mail from Meridian Magazine with a link to an article entitled, “If You Could Choose, What Movies Would You Make?” It’s by Kieth Merrill …
A quickie today, since I’ve got to run to the store (my C.S. Lewis class is watching Shadowlands tonight and it’s a potluck). It’s still the North Pole outside. …
27. At the edge
Just read an interview with Richard Dutcher in Christianity Today. I’m not quite sure how I feel about it. Two thoughts:
First, I feel somewhat uncomfortable with it, …
The Church recently released a new booklet called “Let Virtue Garnish Thy Thoughts” (they have a PDF version available online), and there’s a paragraph I really like:
Some materials that …
With Instant Handbrake I’m able to convert my DVDs to iPod (.mp4), so now I have To This End Was I Born, Mountain of the Lord, and Fan Chan …
30. The apple’s bite
This is in response to Joni’s post. When an obsessive blogger’s comment gets rather long, he instinctively recognizes the opportunity for a free blog post. ;) The …
Wendy wrote in about something that’s been on my mind for the past few weeks: book ratings. There are plenty of good books out there, but there are also …
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.”
Thus begins Pride and Prejudice. Today I …
33. Boiled frog
In our C.S. Lewis Society meeting this past week, the discussion turned to how God can make good out of any bad that happens, and how, conversely, Satan twists everything …
34. The kettle black
This morning in my Music 201 (History of Civilization) class, we talked a little bit about Plato’s Republic, which brought up the topic of censorship. (It’s one of the …
Just got back from watching BYU’s production of Arsenic and Old Lace. Throughout the first half, I noticed that my laughs felt hollow, like they were just on the …
36. God’s Army
I watched God’s Army again last night, for the second time (the first was shortly after it came out, I think). Not States of Grace, mind you — I’m …
37. Brokenheart
My iOscars idea has come and I’ve started making the storyboard. It’ll be “animated” in Illustrator (in a slide-show style) and here’s one of the frames:…
38. iOscars
So I registered for BYU’s iOscars. I have a camcorder, Photoshop & Illustrator, and iMovie, so all I need now is an idea. And I’ve got ten …
On Bookland I wrote about Emma, and the post started taking on a life of its own:
As one last compelling reason, I find that movies like these enrich and …
Today in the Daily Universe there was an article (which I’d link to but the BYU web servers have been in a most finicky state these past few days, flickering …
