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Author Archives: robchristopher
How quick-cutting obscures.
Quick-cutting used to be a tool used by clever low budget filmmakers to help disguise the absence of expensive production design and special effects. And it worked. But now, paradoxically, it’s used even more often by big budget filmmakers; and … Continue reading
3 things about Andrew Stanton’s JOHN CARTER
John Carter [2012] 1. Cracking the ice to water the horses. 2. Several instances: pointlessly cutting from a medium shot to a wide angle shot, briefly, and then back to a medium shot. 3. He emerges from the body cavity … Continue reading
3 things about Terry Gilliam’s 12 MONKEYS
12 Monkeys [1995] 1. Grizzly outside City Hall. 2. Frank Gorshin’s sideways cigarette plant. 3. Insurance.
3 things about Jack Bernhard’s DECOY
Decoy [1946] 1. She jiggles her jewelry at him and says, “Do they have this trash on your level?” 2. “Don’t let that face of yours go to your head.” 3. Improperly folded sheet on the corpse.
3 things about André De Toth’s CRIME WAVE
Crime Wave [1954] 1. Working late at the animal hospital, wearing a holey sweater. 2. In the apartment building’s corridor stands a very sad plant on a table. 3. They end up in a crumpled heap at the bottom of … Continue reading
Lost and found.
I haven’t been working on the film much lately (moving to a new apartment after 12 years is a concentration killer) but there is an exciting development. Courtesy of the 16mm mag reels that I used for editing all those … Continue reading
from a notebook
“Jazz shouts its sorrows at us, and we don’t give a damn. That’s why it’s fine, real.” –Erik Satie
3 things about Victor Fleming’s THE WIZARD OF OZ
The Wizard of Oz [1939] 1. Fresh crullers. 2. Her broomstick has red stripes on the upper handle. 3. A giant spraycan of Witch Remover. 3 other things.
“They got to the bar of the hotel by taking an elevator in the center of the mall.”
That’s the opening sentence from “Nightcap,” an excerpt from my long-lost unpublished novella Tiny Apocalypse, which appears in the brand new issue no. 5 of Graze magazine. It’s really something to see this story live again. Kristopher Schmelzer specially took some … Continue reading
3 things about Warren Beatty & Buck Henry’s HEAVEN CAN WAIT
Heaven Can Wait [1978] 1. Nobody wears trainer’s shorts (or a loud tie) like Jack Warden. 2. She drinks vodka straight from the carafe. 3. James Mason: “I’m going to have to take charge of this case personally.”
