http://metaphilm.com/index.php/ See Through Cinema en read@cleave.com Copyright 2009 2009-06-26T21:52:00-05:00 http://metaphilm.com/index.php/comments/michael-bays-artistic-genius-strikes-again/ http://metaphilm.com/index.php/comments/michael-bays-artistic-genius-strikes-again/#When:21:52:00Z 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. 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.

]]> phlog 2009-06-26T21:52:00-05:00 publisher http://metaphilm.com/index.php/comments/classic-film-lines-translated-to-japanese-and-back/ http://metaphilm.com/index.php/comments/classic-film-lines-translated-to-japanese-and-back/#When:19:19:00Z Someone with way too much time on their hands… like someone else we know. Someone with way too much time on their hands… like someone else we know.

]]> phlog 2009-06-02T19:19:00-05:00 publisher http://metaphilm.com/index.php/comments/fight-club-fans-running-non-fight-club-related-blogs/ http://metaphilm.com/index.php/comments/fight-club-fans-running-non-fight-club-related-blogs/#When:18:22:00Z From the “You can take the boy out of Fight Club, but you can’t take the Fight Club out of the boy” department. From the “You can take the boy out of Fight Club, but you can’t take the Fight Club out of the boy” department.

]]> phlog 2009-06-01T18:22:00-05:00 publisher http://metaphilm.com/index.php/comments/why-watch-house-and-how-is-the-arabian-nights-like-buffy-the-vampire-slayer/ http://metaphilm.com/index.php/comments/why-watch-house-and-how-is-the-arabian-nights-like-buffy-the-vampire-slayer/#When:22:50:00Z Ira Glass discloses the mysteries of good storytelling. Ira Glass discloses the mysteries of good storytelling.

]]> phlog 2009-05-31T22:50:00-05:00 publisher http://metaphilm.com/index.php/detail/watchmen/ http://metaphilm.com/index.php/comments/watchmen/#When:03:28:00Z Semiotic Superheroes On the verge of a new kind of visual storytelling. On the verge of a new kind of visual storytelling.

(Read the article) ]]> philms 2009-04-24T03:28:00-05:00 Alexander Wilgus http://metaphilm.com/index.php/comments/there-will-definitely-maybe-be-blood/ http://metaphilm.com/index.php/comments/there-will-definitely-maybe-be-blood/#When:22:58:01Z Seriously. Seriously.

]]> phlog 2009-04-23T22:58:01-05:00 publisher http://metaphilm.com/index.php/comments/snakes-on-a-plane-actually/ http://metaphilm.com/index.php/comments/snakes-on-a-plane-actually/#When:22:30:01Z Uh-oh. Uh-oh.

]]> phlog 2009-04-17T22:30:01-05:00 publisher http://metaphilm.com/index.php/comments/mark-plotinsky-reconfirms/ http://metaphilm.com/index.php/comments/mark-plotinsky-reconfirms/#When:15:27:00Z what Metaphilm writers have said for years. what Metaphilm writers have said for years.

]]> phlog 2009-04-03T15:27:00-05:00 publisher http://metaphilm.com/index.php/comments/the-big-wazowski/ http://metaphilm.com/index.php/comments/the-big-wazowski/#When:00:25:00Z Monster’s Inc. meets The Dude.  Monster’s Inc. meets The Dude. 

]]> phlog 2009-04-01T00:25:00-05:00 publisher http://metaphilm.com/index.php/comments/what-the-wizard-of-oz-can-teach-us-about-the-economic-crisis/ http://metaphilm.com/index.php/comments/what-the-wizard-of-oz-can-teach-us-about-the-economic-crisis/#When:15:09:01Z 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.  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. 

]]> phlog 2009-03-18T15:09:01-05:00 publisher http://metaphilm.com/index.php/comments/is-rinko-kikuchi-the-japanese-louise-brooks/ http://metaphilm.com/index.php/comments/is-rinko-kikuchi-the-japanese-louise-brooks/#When:17:08:00Z 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. 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.

]]> phlog 2009-02-20T17:08:00-05:00 publisher http://metaphilm.com/index.php/comments/we-told-you-this-already-about-fight-club-and-the-matrix/ http://metaphilm.com/index.php/comments/we-told-you-this-already-about-fight-club-and-the-matrix/#When:16:53:00Z 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. 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.

]]> phlog 2009-02-12T16:53:00-05:00 publisher http://metaphilm.com/index.php/comments/the-curious-case-of/ http://metaphilm.com/index.php/comments/the-curious-case-of/#When:17:37:00Z 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. 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.

]]> phlog 2009-01-20T17:37:00-05:00 publisher http://metaphilm.com/index.php/comments/eagle-eye-on-the-gaza-strip/ http://metaphilm.com/index.php/comments/eagle-eye-on-the-gaza-strip/#When:20:52:00Z The movie, made real.  The movie, made real. 

]]> phlog 2009-01-12T20:52:00-05:00 publisher http://metaphilm.com/index.php/comments/robert-mckee-explains-synecdoche-ny/ http://metaphilm.com/index.php/comments/robert-mckee-explains-synecdoche-ny/#When:20:37:00Z "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?  "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? 

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