Ryan Jenq | Skewed perspectives and opinions on film and more
RIP Robert Martin Culp
Robert Culp is dead. Before attending a Bill Cosby book signing for Come On People, I viewed the film Hickey and Boggs, starring Bill Cosby and Robert Culp (who also directed), written by Walter Hill of The Warriors fame and bought a poster to get autographed. Most people know the acting duo from the television series I Spy, which [...]
La Pianiste (The Piano Teacher)
I recently viewed the Michael Haneke film La Pianiste (The Piano Teacher). I will make this brief, I don’t know how to explain how much it intrigued me. Caché is the only other Haneke film I had seen. Though I enjoyed it immensely, I was a bit skeptical about highly stylistic lack of energy, which [...]
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 [...]
Two New Batches
I just finished spending the last two days taking and editing photographs. First off, I shot a few pieces of artwork for a friend’s portfolio. This was my first time shooting something like this, but the final result was exactly as I expected. Set up was a piece of black foamcore and poster board, along with a basic [...]
frick
I shouldn’t have switched to photojournalism. Of course, I’m glad to be out of the computer science program but I am a filmmaker. I am a fucking filmmaker, I can’t take any more of this shit. No way am I going to do that at RIT, the students are all passionless, clueless and garbage. There [...]
The Sound of Shutter Island
Am I the only one who thinks Shutter Island contains the most notable use of sound in a contemporary American film? Granted, it is a psychological thriller; there is a degree of surrealism surrounding the sanity of the protagonist: which lends the film opportunities take advantage of vivid imagery, violent flashes, the subtle drop of papers in the air [...]
