remembering the films that the audience forgot
“I didn’t read reviews earlier in my career, but I read them now as I’m older. I read them all.”
— Steven Spielberg
Davey is an unpublished writer driving around New Mexico with his brother giving readings of his short stories and trying to sell a few copies of his book. One night in his motel he gets a call from Nicole. He doesn't know who she is, but they end up having phone sex - and so begins Easier With Practice.
Read MoreTaika Waititi was nominated for an academy award for his short film Two Cars, One Night back in 2003 and more recently his film JoJo Rabbit picked up a number of Oscar noms and Waititi got a win for Best Adapted Screenplay. But lets go back to his first full-length feature, Eagle Vs Shark. And what a wonderful debut it was.
Read MoreThere have been some great rivalries in the history of sports and some epic battles among champions. There was the Ali v. Foreman Rumble in the Jungle, there was Aarons quest to pass Babe Ruth's career home run number, the epic 2008 Wimbledon finals between Federrer and Nadal and then there was Steve Wiebe and Billy Mitchell.
Read MoreThe Squid And The Whale is about a family breaking up in Brooklyn, New York in 1986 - and right when the film begins we see what side everyone is going to be on: The opening scene is of the family playing tennis with the dad and the older son on one side of the net and the mother on the other side with the younger boy. These are the two teams and this divide is just made more evident when the parents split up and the kids are forced to split their time between them.
Read MoreWe are an audience that has seen it all. We know the conventions of genres and the way things generally play out from having been exposed to decades of films and film making. We are a generation that knows it and has no problem telling people that we know it. So, what do film makers do for audiences like that? Well, they show us that they know it also.
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