Rightwing Film Geek

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Reviews and thoughts about the films of the cinema from an American conservative whose favorite Austrian film artist is Michael Haneke rather than Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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  1. I thought I was the perhaps the only right-winger on planet earth who attempted serious film criticism in blog form until I stumbled across your page. Awesome stuff you have here, I can only hope to write nearly as well as you one day. I’ll make a point of check in from now on!

    Comment by James Frazier | October 22, 2007

  2. I love your blog… been reading it for a while. I ended up making a world cinema focussed site…just a month old. URL is http://www.reelsuave.com and i would be soo happy if you could write or post some of your reviews or articles there. I would love to have your blog or column on the site. Thanks a lot and hope to hear from you soon.

    Comment by Prem | January 14, 2008

  3. Sir,

    I was wondering, for a new student of film, what the top 10 movies (past and present) that you would say are mandatory viewing?

    Please email me back if you get a chance.

    Thanks.

    Comment by Chris | March 21, 2008

  4. Just 10???? Any such list of that size or thereabouts would be nothing more a list of my personal favorites*

    There’s literally hundreds of important films out there. The best “canon lists” IMHO are the Vatican List of significant films from 1995, the American Film Institute poll 100 Years … 100 Films and its 10th anniversary do-over, the decennial Sight and Sound worldwide polls, and the 2005 Time list by critics Richard Schickel and Richard Corliss. And here’s a page with more lists on it.

    What would help give more-usefully tailored info would be having more a sense of your particular interests, either cinematic — in terms of national cinemas, eras, genres/styles — or noncinematic. “New student of film” is rather catch-all.
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    * For the record, that list of 10 would be A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, TIME OUT, REAR WINDOW, 8 1/2, THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS, CASABLANCA, SUNSET BOULEVARD, DR. STRANGELOVE, CRIES AND WHISPERS and THE RULES OF THE GAME. But I could never call that list any kind of canon — far too many categorical gaps, two Kubricks, 6 of 10 in English, 9 of 10 from a barely 30-year period (1939-72), and half my 10 favorite directors unrepresented.

    Comment by vjmorton | March 21, 2008

  5. I’m part of a small team of journalists who have put together something new that I thought might interest you. We are going to cover the Pope’s visit to America in a new way.
    We are working on a website called http://www.LiveNewsCameras.com The concept is simple, let people watch news as it happens anywhere in the world…raw, unedited on your computer at work or home.
    It started on Super Tuesday with just a couple of feeds focusing on the Republican and Democratic candidates and has grown to 150 streams around the world. We think it will double that soon because we keep hearing from stations that are starting up live streams. We did it as a little newsroom experiment and now we have ABC, CBS and NBC stations involved.
    We’ve been streaming the hearings about Iraq this week…nothing outrageous there…but we also stream the presidential candidates live every day…sometimes two or three times each a day as they go around the country. No one else is doing that.
    We have been working on having live video of the Pope’s visit to America from many different television stations. On Monday April 14th from 6-7pm CST we will have an experimental internet broadcast about the Catholic religion. We will have on experts and commentators that the webcast viewers can chat with live. We will look at the issues facing the Church and discuss the importance of this visit. It is a national effort that you can see on http://www.livenewscameras.com. We of course hope to have raw feeds of the Pope’s travels every possible opportunity. We are the only website that we know that is devoting this sort of effort to gather all of these live feeds.
    Perhaps you would like to link to this content over the next week? At the very least it might be a useful way to keep up with this historic event.
    Being an eyewitness to news is very different from consuming prepared news content.
    Love to see what you think. Our motto is “Veritas odit moras,” from line 850 of Seneca’s version of Oedipus. It means “Truth hates delay.”

    Comment by Andrew Finlayson | April 10, 2008

  6. Hey I met you at the VAFilm Fest. in 2006, where I saw about 8 films with you over the course of the weekend. I saw last year that you had a top 20 list on YMDB and was curious if you would reupdate it since it is no longer there? I finally put one up over the weekend

    Comment by Ryan Browder | April 27, 2008

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