Not exact matches
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Well Russ continued in his exploitive areas becoming a gigantic cult filmmaker, beloved
by «
geeks» everywhere, and Roger went into the
film criticism arena.
Despite sloppy moment - to - moment editing the
film's pace works well enough; this is a movie with some energy, and along with the amiable leads and just - enough - jokes script (
by Freaks and
Geeks» own John Francis Daley, working with Jonathan M. Goldstein, as well as Michael Markowitz) that's enough to get a pass from me.
This is a
film by geeks about
geeks for
geeks.
That
film heralded a new era of PG - 13 action cinema, one that could be enjoyed equally
by children, their parents, and young adult
geeks looking to experience the innocent excitement many of us first felt while reading superhero comics.
I can only imagine how exhilarating this must be for them
by imagining one of the few short - lived modern TV shows I care about («Freaks and
Geeks», «Undeclared») getting passionately resurrected as a
film with all personnel onboard.
I've got a brief preview of some of the
films we're looking forward to over this first week, including Paul Schrader's First Reformed, documentaries on Freaks &
Geeks, MIA, and John McEnroe (that's three separate
films, though now I'm imagining a Fast, Cheap & Out of Control - style doc about the three of them all together and that would be really cool), and archival presentations of classics
by Derek Jarman (Edward II) and Kenji Mizoguchi (Sansho the Bailiff).
It's too bad that the
film reviewer world — dominanted
by male
geeks unable to communicate in the real world — feels compelled to criticize the AWFJ.
Rife with priceless archival concert footage as well as recent wistful remembrances
by friends and family, the
film opens with an examination of Phil's early years as a band
geek in high school, followed
by his matriculating at Ohio State where he picked up the guitar.
Also included are relevant excerpts from the famed 1967 interviews with auteur and
film geek par excellance, François Truffaut, and an episode of «Alfred Hitchcock Presents,» «Mr. Blanchard's Secret», directed
by Hitchcock.
The
film foretells the age of the
geek hero
by at least ten years and sparked a fire for an entire genre of meta madness, my
films included.
7:00 p.m., Room 6BCF — «Blade Runner» 30th Anniversary Celebration For
geeks keen on a bit of
film history, this should be one of the highlights of the weekend: a panel, hosted
by Paul M. Sammon, who wrote the seminal book on «Blade Runner,» and was on - set throughout, on the making of Ridley Scott «s sci - fi classic, with a number of cast and crew members on stage with him.
It's a
film about shoestring, kitchen - sink genre pics made
by the fratboy villains instead of the hero
geeks, and the cult that's sprung up around it is based on hearty belly - laughs and beer burps.
The Dirties, a conceptually daring story of two
film geeks planning a high school shooting, has secured five VFCC nominations in the Canadian category, including Best Canadian
Film and Best First
Film by a Canadian Director.
This demo, labeled
by some as
geek or comic culture, is comprised of incredibly passionate, tribe - wired fans of everything from comic books, video games and action
films to underground music, sci - fi inspired television and cutting edge adult comedy.
For those math
geeks also interested in gematria, there's a great 1998
film that won the Sundance
Film Festival for Directing Award
by Darren Aronofsky:
The Nexus range was pretty much the equivalent of an art
film — acclaimed
by the
geek classes, but not really accepted
by the masses, who were swayed
by high profile ad campaigns that talked of everything but the OS in an Android device.
About Blog Renegade Cinema is a website created
by longtime
film critic Shawn S. Lealos
by movie
geeks for movie
geeks, with the best in news, reviews and interviews.
About Blog Renegade Cinema is a website created
by longtime
film critic Shawn S. Lealos
by movie
geeks for movie
geeks, with the best in news, reviews and interviews.