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New Wave Cinema 2.0: The Films of Woody Allen
Colin Swan, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Geoff Carter In The New Wave 2.0 series, The Pen in Hand Blog will be examining the work of today’s most provocative and influential filmmakers, artists whose singular filmic stylings and compelling storytelling have stretched the boundaries of cinema. Drawing upon Francois Truffaut’s definition of an auteur, …
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New Wave Cinema 2.0: The Films of Clint Eastwood
English: “© Universal Pictures”. Photographer unknown., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Geoff Carter In The New Wave 2.0 series, The Pen in Hand Blog will be examining the work of today’s most provocative and influential filmmakers, artists whose singular filmic stylings and compelling storytelling have stretched the boundaries of cinema. Drawing upon Francois Truffaut’s …
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New Wave Cinema 2.0: The Films of Joel and Ethan Coen
Created by Rita Molnár 2001, CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons By Geoff Carter In The New Wave 2.0 series, The Pen in Hand Blog will be examining the work of today’s most provocative and influential filmmakers, artists whose singular filmic stylings and visionary storytelling have stretched the boundaries of cinema. Drawing upon Francois Truffaut’s definition …
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New Wave Cinema 2.0: The Films of Jim Jarmusch
Michael Schilling, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Geoff Carter In The New Wave 2.0 series, The Pen in Hand Blog will be examining the work of today’s most provocative and influential filmmakers, artists whose singular visual styles and visionary genius have stretched the boundaries of cinema. Drawing upon Francois Truffaut’s definition of an auteur, …
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New Wave Cinema 2.0: The Films of Tim Burton
Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Tim Burton: Once Upon a Nightmare The New Wave Cinema 2.0 In The New Wave 2.0 series, The Pen in Hand Blog will be examining the work of today’s most provocative and influential filmmakers, artists whose singular styles and visionary genius have stretched the boundaries of cinema. Drawing …
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New Wave Cinema 2.0: The Films of David Lynch
Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Geoff Carter In The New Wave 2.0 series, The Pen in Hand Blog will be examining the work of today’s most provocative and influential filmmakers, artists whose singular visual styles and visionary senses have stretched the boundaries of cinema. Drawing upon Francois Truffaut’s definition of an auteur, …
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New Wave Cinema 2.0: The Films of Spike Lee
By Geoff Carter In The New Wave 2.0 series, The Pen in Hand Blog will be considering the work of today’s best and most influential filmmakers, artists whose singular visual styles and visionary senses have stretched the boundaries of cinema. Drawing upon Francois Truffaut’s definition of an auteur, these pieces will be looking at writer/directors whose …
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Triumph of the Will
Photo: Harry Wad, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Geoff Carter The now infamous moment when Will Smith lost his cool and slapped Chris Rock in front of half the world (or more) at the Academy Awards has already been etched into the bedrock of our cultural mythology. Smith has been painted as everything from a …
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Cinema Today: The New Wave 2.0
Dziga Vertov, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons By Geoff Carter In his seminal work “A Certain Tendency in French Cinema” from Cahiers du Cinema, Truffaut coined the term “auteur” as he thought it should apply to the art of filmmaking. Cinema, he maintained, should consist of personal autobiographical chronicles, and be the product of one mind …
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Old School Cinema: The Way We Were
Siebbi, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Geoff Carter In his recent Harper’s article “Il Maestro”, Martin Scorsese laments that today’s film industry has become so centered on profiteering that—in the world of marketing algorhythms and streaming platforms—cinematic art has been relegated to the same level as any type of streaming content, be it a commercial, …
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A Dog Eat Dog World
FLC001, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons Film Review of The Power of the Dog By Geoff Carter Chronicling the inner world of fictional characters is part and parcel of literature. Since the days of Charles Dickens, Jane Austen and the modernistic stylings of Vladimir Nabokov and James Joyce, novelists have sought to explain the foibles of …
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