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| User: | wrestcanon (12556988)
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| Name: | Wrestling the Canon |
| Location: | Winter Park, Florida, United States |
| Birthdate: | 1982-01-06 |
| Bio: | Wrestling the Canon is my fledging attempt at an online film journal. A long time film junkie, I spent much of my childhood pouring over film books, learning the ins and outs of the accepted film canon, as well as some writers vociferous opinions against it. Now in my mid-20s, I feel ready to start constructing my own film canon, not by denying the canon that came before me, but synthesizing its wisdom with (hopefully) my own. My model for this is my favorite film book, the film book I grew up on, Danny Peary's Alternate Oscars. Eventually, I would like to attempt to write a similar book, not so much with the anticipation that it would be published, but because I relish the idea of taking on the totality of film history. As I work towards that absurdly ambitious goal, this film journal will keep me busy, with weekly film reviews (of both new and old films) and monthly lists, list commentaries and full-length articles on various film topics. I'll also include random blogs that discuss issues pertaining (however loosely) to the world of film. I'm writing this film journal for my own enjoyment, and while I hope others might enjoy it, I certainly will not be offended if you find it ridiculously pretentious or just simply ridiculous. Most film writing can be categorized thus, but I'd be lying if I said I didn't love it all the same. Film writing can be pretentious, portentous or just plain dull, but some film writers (Pauline Kael, Anthony Lane, David Edelstein and Danny Peary to name a few) have made me laugh, made me think and most importantly, pointed me in the direction of new and good films. I'm hardly the writer that Kael, Lane, Edelstein or Peary is, but I'd like all the same to leap into the scrum they inspired me to love. For I don't just love film, I love film criticism too. This film journal will mark my journey into both. |
| Interests: | 100: akira kurosawa, al pacino, alfred hitchcock, astaire and rogers, barbara stanwyck, bill murray, billy wilder, brad bird, buster keaton, cary grant, cate blanchett, charlie chaplin, charlie kaufman, chris cooper, clint eastwood, danny huston, david mamet, dennis quaid, diane keaton, elmer bernstein, emma thompson, ennio morricone, ernst lubitsch, f.w. murnau, federico fellini, frances mcdormand, francis ford coppola, francois truffaut, gene hackman, gene kelly, george a. romero, george c. scott, gong li, gordon willis, hal ashby, howard hawks, ingrid bergman, jack nicholson, jean arthur, jean-pierre leaud, jean-pierre melville, jimmy stewart, john ford, john goodman, john huston, joseph cotten, julianne moore, kate winslet, katherine hepburn, klaus kinski, laura linney, lee j. cobb, marlon brando, martin scorsese, meryl streep, michael powell, michel gondry, michelangelo antonioni, mike leigh, mike nichols, nicholas ray, noah baumbach, oliver stone, orson welles, paul thomas anderson, peter bogdanovich, peter sellers, philip baker hall, philip seymour hoffman, pietro germi, preston sturges, quentin tarantino, ralph fiennes, robert altman, robert bresson, robert elswit, robert towne, roman polanski, russ meyer, samuel fuller, shirley henderson, spike lee, stanley kubrick, stephen frears, sterling hayden, steven soderbergh, steven spielberg, terrence malick, the coen brothers, the marx brothers, thelma schoonmaker, todd haynes, walter murch, werner herzog, wes anderson, whit stillman, will ferrell, william holden, woody allen, yasujiro ozu |
| Schools: | None listed |
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| Friend of: | 3: hmartins82, ilikemusic, omnipop |
| Account type: | Plus Account |
