"Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops." - Cary Grant in Arsenic and Old Lace
"A good reason for writing one's autobiography is that it may prevent some jerk from writing one's biography." - Preston Sturges
"I find a woman's point of view much grander and finer than a man's." - Katharine Hepburn
Friday, February 1, 2008
Chomping At The Bit
These are all the cities Teeth is currently playing in that, last time I checked, are NOT Chicago: LA, New York, Houston, Austin, Boston, Philadelphia, Denver, San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle. Okay, the first two are obvious. LA and New York are usually the first. That's fine. But Chicago should be third in line, because it's the third gosh darn biggest metropolis in this country! No offense to these other fine cities, but how did Chicago get bypassed? Denver? Boston? The Pacific Northwest? What is this? I have to deduce that this film has been shopped around to various urban markets, with Chicago being one of them. It not opening here either means that Roadside Attractions isn't trying hard enough or that some bigwigs in Chicago have decided people don't want to see a movie about a girl with teeth in her vagina. I don't know about you, fellow Chicagoans, but I don't like my decisions being made for me, especially when it comes to vaginal dentistry. Are we not as edgy as Philadelphia? Portland? Come on, Chicago has a huge audience for this film. It's destined to be a cult classic. We're hip, we love stuff like this! This is so frustrating. I want my Teeth! Don't make me bite you...
I graduated in May 2008 from Columbia College Chicago. I have a BA in Film with a concentration in Critical Studies. Film is my passion. I'm a full-time film buff and, more specifically, a classic film fanatic. I know the term "classic" is used very loosely, but I mean American films produced in the studio system between roughly 1930 and 1960. I love everything about this era. My second passion is writing, especially about film. I love doing research, deconstructing and analyzing films, and writing very academically and critically about them. I ultimately want to be a film historian, but I am also interested in working in archiving or preserving films. I want to write analysis or reviews for a publication, as well as my own books. Writing is a beautiful, artistic process to me, and I always need to be writing about film in some capacity in order to thrive as a scholar, a cinéphile, and a person. Now that I'm done with school for the time being, I need an outlet for writing about film on a regular basis. So what you'll find on here will solely be about film, with maybe the occasional entry on something else. I hope you enjoy reading what I have to say as much as I enjoy writing it.
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"Oh, I once was a cliché." - a good-natured, playful Colin Farrell after Ricky Gervais introduced him to present at the Golden Globes by talking about drunken, hell-raising Irish stereotypes
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