I had considered writing a book / biography of horror author Naomi Hintze. While I still think it’s a great idea and someone ought to do it, that someone is not me. Below is the very little I bothered to write down before abandoning the project. Buried Treasure Waits For You (1962) In retrospect, Hintze’s […]
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Gavin Schmitt’s stats: Highest Rated Decade for Film Based on my Letterboxd stats, I rated the 1920s the highest on average, followed by the 1910s and 1930s. We can make a broad observation from this: clearly I prefer older film, maybe even things 100 years old or more! Perhaps not surprising for someone who works
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Gavin Schmitt’s 1oth Book Karl Freund: The Life and Films It’s no secret that Gavin Schmitt loves movies, and it’s only fitting that his 10th book covers Cinematographer Karl Freund, who has over 160 cinematographer credits on IMDB! Countless camera techniques can be traced back to Freund’s “unchained camera” technique, and his lighting setup for
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List of Superhero Movies There’s a list of 287 Superhero movies, and I’ve started watching them. This post contains my thoughts on this experience. Consuming in Blocks Often when I read books, I’ll read the same author or subject in “blocks.” Each author has their own voice, so once you adjust to it, it makes
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Over 20 Years on IMDB, Gavin6942 is now on Letterboxd I’ve been using IMDB since June 2001, and have rated 8,565 films with 6,335 of those ratings including written reviews. That’s a lot of ratings, and even though many of my movie nerd friends were moving over to Letterboxd, I chose not to as I
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Top Movies: Rated 10/10 by Gavin As of this post, I have rated well over 7,000 movies. Out of those ratings, 37 have been given a perfect score: Movie(link to Letterboxd) Year Genre(s) Director 1 A Clockwork Orange 1971 Crime, Sci-Fi Stanley Kubrick 2 Adaptation. 2002 Comedy, Drama Spike Jonze 3 Amélie 2001 Comedy, Romance
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Gavin Schmitt Interviews Christine Nyland As part of the 2020 Nightstream film festival, I had the pleasure of having a brief chat with writer-producer-actor Christine Nyland (affiliate link) about her newest film, AN UNQUIET GRAVE (affiliate link). My review is in another post, but the super-short summary is: a bare bones movie with a lot
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An Unquiet Grave (2020) Overview: A year after the death of his wife, a man (Jacob A. Ware) enlists his wife’s sister (Christine Nyland) to help him bring her back.Director: Terence KreyWriters: Christine Nyland, Terence KreyStarring: Jacob A. Ware, Christine Nyland Related post: Interview: Christine Nyland Gavin’s Review Does the plot summary of AN UNQUIET GRAVE (affiliate
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Lapsis (2020) Gavin’s Lapsis Movie Review Presented as “science fiction,” the world of LAPSIS (affiliate link)is barely different from the real world of 2020 (minus the pandemic) and offers a scathing critique of the gig economy and the growing number of independent contractors. Now, this is something I can relate to. I formerly worked “with”
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Rose Plays Julie Gavin’s Rose Plays Julie Review From the literature: “Directors Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor, also known as Desperate Optimists, have spent years making formally rigorous, atmospheric cinema that often deals with the uncanny effects of impersonation and the slippery nature of truth. With ROSE PLAYS JULIE (2019) (affiliate link) they have crafted
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