Now this is the stuff! Short and sweet little 2 minute short. The camera takes the perspective of a young child’s eye, and it really feels delicate, sensitive, and alive. Walking through his childhood home, passing different mundane beauties, the film really makes you feel like a child again and takes you back to a place where home was a simple and beautiful place of comfort. A place to comfortably and curiously look out the window; the world outside a…
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Ghost Hunters 2023
Not my favourite from Jimbo…. The performance is good and the concept is fun, but really, not enough happens and the film is stylistically reserved and modest, to a fault. The droning music Jim composed is good, but it overpowers the dialogue. Overall, respectable effort, but not for me. I know for a fact that Jim is capable of much better, and I truly can’t wait to see his next project.
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Grounded 2023
Check out Eli Rubsinon’s new short film ‘Grounded’ here: m.youtube.com/watch?v=pf9Iup878qY
I think slow-cinema is a pretty remarkable tool for empathy; some of the deepest empathy I’ve felt in my life, ashamedly so, has been watching film characters in long takes. So automatically, I respected the film in this regard, and the film really brought me back to certain feelings and times in my life. It captures isolation really well, especially the thoughtful frame(s)-within-a-frame shot; Eli is alone in apartment, and…
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Wanton 2023
Wanton turns 1 week old today
Watch here if you haven't yet: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiGuwWSBnf8&t=1927s
I love you
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The Incredible Shrinking Man 1957
chekhov's housecat
"I looked up, as if somehow I would grasp the heavens. The universe, worlds beyond number, God's silver tapestry spread across the night. And in that moment, I knew the answer to the riddle of the infinite. I had thought in terms of man's own limited dimension. I had presumed upon nature. That existence begins and ends is man's conception, not nature's. And I felt my body dwindling, melting, becoming nothing. My fears melted away. And in their…
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Wanton 2023
MY NEW FILM “WANTON” IS AVAILABLE NOW!
Watch here: youtu.be/OiGuwWSBnf8
Today is my birthday, which is my sneaky and unsubtle way of giving you all some extra incentive to watch - it’s truly the greatest gift I could ask for.
Some ramblings:
I’ve been working on this project for the past year or so, and she’s finally.. ‘ready’ is the right word. I’ve never really felt that anything I’ve made has been ‘completed’ or ‘finished’. I’m always growing and changing,…
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John Wick: Chapter 4 2023
Hotline Miami dragon’s breath scene is transcendent
Last 40 minutes are absolutely insane, best action film ever made
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The Tree of Life 2011
Easily the most comforting and life-affirming film out there. It makes a believer out of me. Can’t do the film justice or put it coherently, but heres just a few things that I thought about/really touched me while watching.
Nature is selfish and only wants what’s ‘best’ for itself. Grace is giving, forgiving, and selfless. The duality of these ideas is obviously presented in the juxtaposition of Jack’s parents’ parenting styles, but I find the idea of living by grace…