Looking for a writer to take over 20/20 Filmsight
June 16th 2009 23:37
Hi Everyone,
Things are getting too busy, and I'm unable to post regularly on 20/20 Filmsight, which has grown quite large. Luckily, Matt Shea and David O'Connell have helped out with reviews and articles, but now, I'm looking for someone to take over the website.
This blog would, ideally, suit someone in Sydney, as I usually review Sydney-based film festivals: SFF, Italian, French and German, Canadian and Japanese. I also get quite a few review DVDs from local distributors, and there's no shortage of preview events. I've managed to interview a couple of big name directors and actors, too.
All this comes along with ownership! I'm looking for a writer with knowledge of cinema, and a passion to see a ridiculous number of movies, old and new.
Thanks,
Cibbuano
Things are getting too busy, and I'm unable to post regularly on 20/20 Filmsight, which has grown quite large. Luckily, Matt Shea and David O'Connell have helped out with reviews and articles, but now, I'm looking for someone to take over the website.
This blog would, ideally, suit someone in Sydney, as I usually review Sydney-based film festivals: SFF, Italian, French and German, Canadian and Japanese. I also get quite a few review DVDs from local distributors, and there's no shortage of preview events. I've managed to interview a couple of big name directors and actors, too.
All this comes along with ownership! I'm looking for a writer with knowledge of cinema, and a passion to see a ridiculous number of movies, old and new.
Thanks,
Cibbuano
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Comment by Morgan Bell
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will you be coming back to 20/20 FilmSight when you are less busy?
if you cant find anyone more qualified, i could do it
i started posting the bulk of my film reviews elsewhere when a certain Orble user was spamming me with nuisance comments, but i still watch a huge amount of films
ill send you a PM
Comment by Mountain Fog
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QUOTE ME NO QUOTES!
Cibby,
firstly, sorry I did not send you a sample review, I will try and do that now, so you can consider me for the site too.
cheers
fog
Comment by Mountain Fog
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QUOTE ME NO QUOTES!
following is my review attempt;
2001: A Space Odyssey
2001: A Space Odyssey was a ground breaking science fiction film, first released in 1968, directed by Stanley Kubrick, created from a story by Arthur C. Clarke, which still causes debate, as to its meaning, to this very day.
Kubrick shot the film in an epic way, showing the reality of space travel and the immense grandeur and the infinite distance of space.
To my mind, great art makes one wonder, ponder and reflect, it should educe many differing interpretations from an individual and cause new insightful discoveries, each time it is viewed. Great art reflects the mood of the viewer at the time; it tests the tenets of an individual and the social mores of the day.
To my mind, 2001 is an example of a great work of art, a masterpiece.
Unlike popular science fiction films of more recent times, Kubrick did not falsify the experience of being in space; he made it very real and based it on scientific fact, which was why the exterior scenes in space were silent, and why you heard, from the astronaut's perspective, his breathing inside his helmet.
This reality base helped Kubrick suspend disbelief in the more technologically advanced (or not as yet science fact mechanisms) such as the super computer HAL, which had intellectual reason and free will, a sentient computer that could plot, lie and murder.
Since its release in 1968, the film has had controversy associated with it, because of the differing interpretations of what the monolith represented, what the 'psychodelic' space journey was about, what the place of arrival meant (the room with the astronaut as an old man), and the ending, with the foetus "star child" staring back at Earth.
Arthur C. Clarke actually spells out the interpretations in his book, which he was finishing writing at the time of the film's production. Kubrick refuses to be literal and explanatory, probably because he is the artist that he is, and leaves his work to be viewed, felt and pondered by individuals, leaving it to them to either imprint their own socio-religious beliefs upon it, and/or, more hopefully, allow them to ponder beyond their normal scope of intellectual parameters, to possibly open up their minds to other potential realities, releasing the grip of dogma and thereby receiving the gift of objective and unprejudiced contemplation.
When I saw this film, soon after its release in 1968, I was 12, and attended with my mother. I remember feeling uneasy, because no film I had seen, up to that time, had caused me to think and not find an easily digestible answer. In addition, the enormity of space, so brilliantly demonstrated by Kubrick, made me feel the insignificance and vulnerability of mankind and his tiny ‘orb ark’, the planet Earth.
I saw the monolith as a manifestation of God’s will, when I first saw it as a 12 year old. That was to be expected, as I had been raised in a strictly Catholic private boys' school environment. But, even then, I was made to feel uneasy about its presence, for it had, through its appearance and effects, a connotation of an object from an alien world, an impenetrable and unknowable presence.
Clarke stated; "If anyone understands it on the first viewing, we've failed in our intention." Kubrick did not like his comment, and tried to dismiss it as Clarke being facetious; however, Clarke stood by his comment and further enforced it, by saying;
"What I meant was, of course, that because we were dealing with the mystery of the universe, and with powers and forces greater than man's comprehension, then by definition they could not be totally understandable. Yet there is at least one logical structure—and sometimes more than one—behind everything that happens on the screen in "2001", and the ending does not consist of random enigmas, some simpleminded critics to the contrary."
So, in essence, both Kubrick and Clarke agreed with each other; for the experience of seeing the film formed a matrix upon which to further explore ones own personal understanding of man's place in the universe, and how we are intrinsically connected with it, the past and future, all on the one plane.
All these years later, 2001: A Space Odyssey still leads the pack, as a catalyst for open minded thought about our evolution and our future.
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Comment by Mountain Fog
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QUOTE ME NO QUOTES!
I was prepared for the 'ummm... okay, but...no' response, so I am chuffed.
I got your notice about being able to post, I'll send you a message about a few particulars... (actually am I jumping ahead here or does this mean you will let me write for and take over your carefully tended site?)
I got the message saying I could post on the 20 20 site, but it does not list me as a member. anyhoo, I'll write to you.
tanx again
fog