Archive for the 'Film' Category
Last week I saw an ad for the upcoming ABC primetime television show Cavemen, a spin-off of the GEICO television commercials that have been airing for the past couple of years. First I’d like to point out that the show is a runner-up for the Most Unoriginal Title award (for whatever reason, my personal […]
My creative juices have been diverted to my new internet film project for so long that I don’t have much left in the tank to write the oh-so-clever blog post that this ought to be. Functionally, this post should suggest I’m a self-deprecating, talented writer in addition to a resourceful no-budget filmmaker… but I’ve […]
Your firstborn for a chance at $100k
3 Comments Published by Ryan June 9th, 2007 in The West Side, Film, Career.I’ve been working on an internet video serial for the better part of the past year (yes, despite avoiding writing about “starting a film career,” I am actually, actively trying). My once-a-month-at-best posting schedule on this site is likely due to the amount of time I’ve been putting into this project (at least, I’d […]
We interrupt your regularly-scheduled self-promotion to bring you this special self-promotion
4 Comments Published by Ryan February 15th, 2007 in Web, Film, Career.The digital video blog I used to write for, DVguru, has been axed by its corporate overlords, which, in my (obviously less than objective) opinion, was a shortsighted mistake. I will now write about why this is the case, I will take some time to further inflate my own ego, and I will come […]
Fanfare for Higher Education
1 Comment Published by Ryan December 31st, 2006 in Media, Film, Career.Some scenes from my Junior-year student film at Middlebury College, which also played at film festivals in New York, Boston, and North Carolina in 2002:
Fanfare was meant to refer to the container–the bookends and the constant audience presence–while Higher Education was the film-within-a-film (thus Fanfare for Higher Education).
I shot the 17-minute short during the first […]
The ten best Hollywood movies of 2006 (pre-holiday/Oscar season edition)
0 Comments Published by Ryan November 22nd, 2006 in Film.1. The Prestige
2. The Prestige
3. The Prestige
4. The Prestige
5. The Prestige
6. The Prestige
7. Insert other movie here
8. The Prestige
9. The Prestige
10. The Prestige
Screenwriting teachers, this is your new Chinatown.
Maybe that’s an overstatement, but find me a finer-crafted screenplay (and film) this year, and I’ll gladly watch it a thousand times.
Well, maybe not a thousand times. […]
