Author: tederick
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Digital vs. Practical Shots in MAD MAX: FURY ROAD
They keep letting me do stuff!
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THE BENEDICT CHRONICLES (Starving Artist)
“…as plate after plate of fluffy poached eggs, cartilaginous peameal, and lakes of sunshiney goo continued to pile up over time, I realized that if I don’t start catalogueing these excursions in some formal manner, a great field of human knowledge would be lost. Hence, the Benedict Chronicles…”
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Uncanny 2.0: Why Creepy CGI Luke is a Straight-Up Bad, Not Good, Very Horrible Idea
You can’t replace your nostalgic memory of Young Luke Skywalker, but boy, Lucasfilm sure looks like they’re going to keep trying. In THE MANDALORIAN and THE BOOK OF BOBA FETT, they’ve created a creepy digital simulation of Mark Hamill, and it’s alarming — not just because it looks fake, but because of what it means…
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Blu-ray Review: BOAT PEOPLE Shows What War Leaves In Its Wake
Ann Hui’s devastating 1982 portrait of postwar Vietnam and its refugees is despairingly relevant, even timely, in 2022. Read more
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Book Going-Out-Of-Print Event
Whatever the opposite of a Book Launch is, this is it. Join me at TIFF Bell Lightbox on Thursday, March 31 for a 35mm screening of Mad Max: Fury Road, after which I’ll be signing (the very last) copies of The Cinema of Survival! Books will be available for purchase at the event and online…
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Back foot
I spent the weekend playing D&D. A fine thing. Thirteen hours on Saturday and another 7-ish on Sunday. Returned to the city with no real sense of what the hell was going on or what I had to do next; a blank slate. Consequently, I’ve spent the week feeling like I was always a step…
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Very Rapidly: Why Does THE BOOK OF BOBA FETT Feel So Slow?
There are a lot of reasons The Book of Boba Fett isn’t hitting with fans (creepy CGI Luke much?) but the big one, for us, is the PACING… which is ironic, because pacing used to be one of the defining attributes of what made Star Wars storytelling so much fun. George Lucas was great at…
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When I was a little girl
I wanted a pony and a princess and a big scary alien dude
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The meanest letter I ever received
The other day I found the meanest letter I’d ever received. It was dated February 1995. I dug it out of the basement by accident, where it had been lost in the wrong box; I’d given up on it years ago, and wasn’t looking for it this time. Reading it I was paralyzed by the…