Author: Landon Palmer
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Best Picture Winners Aren’t Timeless, and ‘Tom Jones’ Proves It
A case study of how Best Picture winners age.
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The Limited Imagination of The Oscars
An exploration of film acting and how the Oscars might need to look at things differently in the future. In the third section of Barry Jenkins’s…
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Discovering David Bowie Through Movies
There is no wrong way or wrong time to enter the career of David Bowie. Of the many personae and identities he produced over his…
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The Hollywood of 2015: Looking Forward to the Past and Back to the Future
In Back to the Future Part II, while Marty McFly surveys the strange landscape of Hill Valley in 2015, he comes across a marquee poster…
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The Darkness of Steven Spielberg
Within the logo of Amblin Entertainment lies one of Steven Spielberg’s most iconic images: a boy flying on a bicycle with a shrouded extraterrestrial friend…
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6 Filmmaking Tips from Satyajit Ray
“Young Satyajit Ray” by Unknown, From the book of Sandip Ray Ray’s Ravi Shankar. A few years ago, I had the pleasure of introducing a 16mm…
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6 Filmmaking Tips from Penelope Spheeris
We explore the wisdom shared through the years by the ‘Wayne’s World’ director.
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Why Ken Russell’s ‘The Devils’ Deserves Divine Resurrection
At the end of 1971, Warner Bros. had a massive controversy on their hands surrounding the release of Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange, an adaptation…
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5 Filmmaking Tips from Mission: Impossible Directors
Paramount Pictures The Mission: Impossible franchise has proven to be remarkably durable for its near-twenty years of existence. And these films have done so not…