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Tag Archives: Buster Keaton

A Masterpiece in Context: Monsieur Verdoux (1947)

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It’s fair to say that interest in silent films today is mostly exclusive to those adventurous viewers who share a general interest in the history of the film. Whether they find Chaplin on […]

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Essential Cinema #4: Modern Times

August 8, 2012by Garrett 7 Comments

Prior to promoting his classic film, City Lights, during 1931 and 1932, Charles Chaplin arrived back in America with intentions of implanting important social and political themes into his next […]

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Essential Cinema

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"Cinema is not the station. Cinema is the train."
-Jean-Luc Godard

“We live in a box of space and time. Movies are windows in its walls. They allow us to enter other minds, not simply in the sense of identifying with the characters ... but by seeing the world as another person sees it.”
-Roger Ebert

"Forget about becoming a film critic. Become an intellectual, a person to whom ideas matter. Read in history, science, politics, and the arts generally. Develop your own ideas, and see what sparks they strike in relation to films."
-David Bordwell

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About Garrett

Garrett Moore recently graduated from Ouachita Baptist University in Arkansas with a B.A. in Mass Communications and Philosophy. Apart from writing and watching movies, he loves trekking the great outdoors, playing pickup basketball, and making playlists on Spotify. His favorite movie is The Grand Budapest Hotel.

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