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The colors of Star Wars

[This post is participating in Too Many Projects’ Production Design blog-a-thon.] As I’ve written before, there were a lot of things that bothered me about The Empire Strikes Back. But I was only...

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Indiana Jones and the Musical Gimmick

[This post is participating in Cerebral Mastication’s Indiana Jones blog-a-thon.] Speaking of subtle filmmaking techniques… The rousing musical score that John Williams wrote for Raiders of the Lost...

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There is no end zone

[This post is participating in Strange Culture’s Dads In Media blog-a-thon.] Some time ago I wrote, The movie […] teaches that worry is an inextricable part of parenthood, which is a comfort in a way....

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My NY

[This post is participating in 12 Grand In Checking’s New York In the Movies Blog-a-thon.] There are endless numbers of movies in which New York City is the star: New York as we’ve always imagined it;...

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Film clips

[This post is participating in Culture Snob’s Self-Involvement blog-a-thon.] Culture Snob has asked for blog posts about movies that elicited very personal reactions, a subject on which I’ve written at...

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I want to suspend my disbelief

[This post is participating in South Dakota Dark’s X-Files blog-a-thon.] I can’t resist a good blog-a-thon, and South Dakota Dark’s X-Files blog-a-thon, anticipating tomorrow’s release of the new...

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Wait for it…

[This post is participating in Mystery Man’s Tension blog-a-thon.] In preparation for this blog-a-thon I have been thinking for days about suspense in the movies and I now know exactly what makes it...

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Eat your vegetables

[This post is participating in The Cooler’s Politics and Movies blog-a-thon.] I don’t know how my mom ever got me to watch the film 1776 in the first place. Probably it was by turning it on to watch it...

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Bonding

[This post is participating in Lazy Eye Theatre’s James Bond Blog-a-thon.] 1973. Live and Let Die. I was seven years old. My folks gave me five bucks and let me go to the movies on my own, just me and...

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Music hath charms to soothe the savage Star Wars fan

[The post is participating in Edward Copeland on Film’s John Williams blog-a-thon.] One day in the summer of 1979, when I was not quite 13 years old, I opened a newspaper and learned not only that...

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