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It wouldn’t be all that hard to convert this blog into a small TV show. A DV camera, Final Cut Pro, Quick Time and I would be in business. And if enough of you click on those ads at the

It wouldn’t be all that hard to convert this blog into a small TV show. A DV camera, Final Cut Pro, Quick Time and I would be in business. And if enough of you click on those ads at the

I get asked all the time what is my favorite film and I never have an answer. One day it’s The Graduate, another day Blow Up, and the next maybe Animal Crackers. It is always differnt, but I can tell

All of the news around Don Imus and the remarks he made has me thinking about race in film. Race, which I feel is the single most important issue in American politics, defines America, so it should be no surprise

I am a big fan of the public radio show This American Life. Each week the program chooses a theme and shares a series of stories on that theme. Usually, I listen while driving and often find myself at my

Things are changing. Good, Fast, Cheap-pick two is becoming Good, Fast, Cheap- pick three, or worse Cheap and Fast- no good. It hasn’t changed in the week since my earlier pick two post, but it has been slowly coming for

F. Scott Fitzgerald famously said there are no second acts in American lives. I disagree. I would say just the opposite, that American lives are almost fully made up of second acts. I don’t know if it is the times

Is film dead? That is the question. I had lunch the other day with a former student. And when he is not being a tennis official, he works often in the Chicago film business. He told me that in the

My cell phone died on Saturday. Actually it only half died. I can talk into and can be heard, but I can’t hear the person I am talking with. My last conversation went something like this, “Can you hear me?

I am happy to report that the student who asked me if I had any women in my class has written a nice script and will be shooting a short film in late summer. (She subscribes to the good, fast,