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Michael Bay’s Artistic Genius Strikes Again

2009-06-26T21:52:00Z

Former advertising man Michael Bay returns with this summer’s big hit, and possibly the most artistic movie ever filmed. Eight years ago, Metaphilm launched with a piece on Michael Bay’s artistic style in Pearl Harbor, little realizing it was an advertisement for a yet-to-be-released political thriller.

Classic Film Lines Translated to Japanese and Back

2009-06-02T19:19:00Z

Someone with way too much time on their hands… like someone else we know.

Fight Club Fans Running Non-Fight-Club-Related Blogs

2009-06-01T18:22:00Z

From the “You can take the boy out of Fight Club, but you can’t take the Fight Club out of the boy” department.

Why Watch “House”? And how is The Arabian Nights like Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Season 3?

2009-05-31T22:50:00Z

Ira Glass discloses the mysteries of good storytelling.

Watchmen

2009-04-24T03:28:00Z

On the verge of a new kind of visual storytelling.

Read this article.

There Will Definitely Maybe Be Blood

2009-04-23T22:58:01Z

Seriously.

Snakes On A Plane, Actually

2009-04-17T22:30:01Z

Uh-oh.

Mark Plotinsky Reconfirms

2009-04-03T15:27:00Z

what Metaphilm writers have said for years.

The Big Wazowski

2009-04-01T00:25:00Z

Monster’s Inc. meets The Dude.

What the Wizard of Oz Can Teach Us About The Economic Crisis

2009-03-18T15:09:01Z

We’ve alluded to and written about this before, but here is the BBC News magazine’s Rumeana Jahangir on the original economic interpretation of L. Frank Baum’s 1900 vision, brought to the masses through the 1939 Judy Garland film, and brought to the world’s understanding in 1964 by high school teacher Henry Littlefield: “The Tin Woodman represents the industrial worker, the Scarecrow is the farmer and the Cowardly Lion is William Jennings Bryan.” - proof that high school teachers still have something to teach us. If you want the full blown postmodern critique, check out The Hang’d Man’s (aka the WWWiz) interpretation from our most wizardly Oz interpretation.

Is Rinko Kikuchi the Japanese Louise Brooks?

2009-02-20T17:08:00Z

Overedited but interesting: “screen tests” with Rosario Dawson, Rinko Kikuchi, Katie Holmes and others. My favorite piece of Kikuchi’s wisdom: “Happiness is when the book I am reading is really good.” That’s a movie actor saying that.

We told you this already about Fight Club and The Matrix

2009-02-12T16:53:00Z

But you wouldn’t listen. Here’s another um, uh… amazingly ham-fisted entry. We will drag you, kicking and screaming. And in the end, you will thank us. Sheesh.

The Curious Case of Forrest Gump

2009-01-20T17:37:00Z

The new movie, just like the old movie. And you thought it was a stretch to compare three of 1999’s top films to 1982’s The Wall.

Eagle Eye On The Gaza Strip

2009-01-12T20:52:00Z

The movie, made real.

Robert McKee Explains Synecdoche, NY

2008-11-21T20:37:00Z

"The world of a story must be small enough that you can become the God in it,” he said. “If you have a huge canvas it’s impossible to be the God of that universe and you’ll write cliches.” Is this Robert McKee-ism the one-line explanation for Synecdoche, NY? Is Charlie Kaufman, after imitating McKee in Adaptation, now embodying him? Is Philip Seymour Hoffman just Being Robert McKee in this new film?