June 28, 2009
After reading film historian Rick Mitchell’s exhaustive study of studio title cards at HollywoodLostandFound.net, I suddenly realized that my fledgling media empire had yet to develop one. Title cards are more than mere curtain openers – they are an expected phatic function of the cinematic experience Before “A long time ago in a galaxy far, [...]
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April 16, 2008
The studio had sunk what amounted to the Christmas bonus of its below-the-line staff into the picture – a picture that consisted only of found-footage of a slaughterhouse cut with a Suicide Girl twisting the knobs of an Etch-A-Sketch with her toes. This played against a soundtrack comprised of a wheezy human beat box interpolated [...]
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