Normally held in Topeka, Kansas, the Kansas Silent Film Festival took place fully online this year. Many of the films shown over the two-day event were popular films from previous film festivals while two were screened by the wonderful Retroformat Silent Films. While they might …
Continue Reading2020 in Review
There aren’t very many things from 2020 I’d like to remember. That being said, I’ve had one of my more productive years in terms of expanding and diversifying my film knowledge. Whether in the first two months pre-Covid in a crowded theater, alone in my …
Continue ReadingPordenone Silent Film Festival 2020 Thoughts
As a poor, young millennial on the verge of entering the full-time job market (if it still exists), I’ve never had the time or the money to attend any major film festivals. While earlier in the year I was planning on buying a short flight …
Continue ReadingWhat Makes a Great Film
I recently watched Ingmar Bergman’s classic The Seventh Seal for the first time. To be brutally honest, I didn’t enjoy it that much. Maybe it was because I watched it with my roommates who mistook it as a horror flick when we brushed past it …
Continue ReadingWhy I Love Film
It’s quite hard to write about just exactly why I love film so much. Every time I’ve tried to it just sounds like a cheesy love poem you wrote to your crush on a school lunch napkin in fourth grade. I start speaking in hyperboles …
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