adam_cook

Every pseudointellectual analysis is based on antiquated rules of understanding cinema. He lauds the filmmakers who have already been lauded. He trashes hand-held because just about everyone else does. He preaches the same lessons Fincher preaches because Fincher is so popular among the film school hipsters. Everything is just the same dogma from "filmmaking teachers," diminishing the efforts of anyone who disagrees.

So many rules, ratios, and techniques of technical composition to give the appearance of expertise, but no grasp of what filmmaking is beyond emotionless practices of narrative function.

It takes no courage whatsoever to praise films that are already glorified as great...and it really speaks to one's cowardice when they crap on films that have already been thoroughly denigrated.

Seriously, that's what all the waiting, hype, and bluster was for? All the obsessing over which camera is "best," how indie filmmakers should work, what technical composition rules to follow, etc and the director can't even do anything interesting with form, let alone create any sense of atmosphere/mood/tone.

This just goes to show what BS the film festival circuit is. Sundance selects this for their "Writers Lab" for the same reason they select others: their own self-serving interests. Funny how they always give grants, labs, and backing to people who already have a large following (a blog with lots of fans in this case), which will only bring more people to buy their tickets, attend their events, and pay attention to them. Maybe Sundance should support more artists who don't have a loyal fanbase, a website that generates lots of traffic, or a wealth of social media followers to tap into for funding.