Ryan Jenq | Skewed perspectives and opinions on film and more
Cinema
You walk around, you’re all in a big fucking rush and your eyes move here and there. You look. You look at the door, at your toothbrush. You look at yourself in the mirror in the morning after you get out of bed, stretching your arms out and getting the crust out of your eyes [...]
Orson Welles and the Poetic Solution
In case I found myself in a position where there would be a lack of updates during a prolonged period of time, I hatched a backup plan. I will copy and paste one of a few academic papers relating to film. The following was an assignment regarding an Orson Welles quote for a “film language” course. There [...]
I don’t like Hitchcock
There is nothing wrong with him or his work. I just don’t like Alfred Hitchcock. Every time I have alluded to my distaste, I have been barraged with comments questioning my status as a filmmaker and my appreciation of cinema, simply due to Hitchcock’s prominence in film history. I understand that he is one of [...]
The Bullshit Christian Film Industry of Today
The past decade has introduced a slew of “Christian” narrative films in the States: Flywheel, To Save a Life, Fireproof, Facing the Giants, The Secrets of Jonathan Sperry, and the upcoming Letters to God. Granted, I’m not religious. I respect religious people as long as they aren’t idiots. I use “idiots” loosely; the individuals who [...]
