AFI Fest 2011

AFI Fest 2011: Extraterrestrial, With Every Heartbeat, & Bonsái

AFI Fest 2011: Miss Bala, Coriolanus, & The Forgiveness of Blood

AFI Fest 2011: The Day He Arrives, The Silver Cliff, & Oslo, August 31st

AFI Fest 2011: Carré Blanc, Beyond the Black Rainbow, Target, Michael, & Footnote

Los Angeles Film Festival 2011

Part 1: Las Malas Intenciones, El Velador, 108, Paraiso for Sale,Unfinished Spaces, & Medianeras

Part 2: En Terrains Connus,Le Vendeur, Curling, Salaam Dunk, & Skateistan: Four Wheels and a Board in Kabul

Part 3: Habana Eva, Boleto al Paraiso, Operation Peter Pan: Flying Back to Cuba, Suite Habana, & The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman

Studies in Lady Gaga:

Pop Ate My Heart: Lady Gaga, Her Videos, and Her Fame Monster

Let’s Make a Sandwich: Lady Gaga’s “Telephone,” A Second Take

I’m Not Your Babe: “Alejandro” and the Gaga Narrative

Video Review: Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way”

Video Review: Lady Gaga’s “Judas”

Video Review: Lady Gaga, “Marry the Night”

Television and Media:

The Long Arc: The Challenge of TV Series Endings

Like Half-Forgotten Dreams: Adam Curtis and the Fragments of History

A Toast for the Douchebags: Kanye West’s “Runaway”

If You Don’t Watch This Show, We’ll Kill This Dog: Terriers, Season One

Video: Kanye West’s “All of the Lights”

Persistence of Memory: The Secret in Their Eyes

Sucker Punch and the Fetishized Image

WIRES AND LIGHTS: selected articles ON TELEVISION, FILM, AND THE MEDIA.

Mad Women (On women’s underrepresentation in cinema and TV.)

3d Is The New Color (The economic explanation behind new film tech.)

I Hate The Big Bang Theory (Self-explanatory.)

In The Realm Of Forms (Using formalist techniques to create dreams.)

The Gossip Girl Cycle (Viewing the hit CW soap through a political lens.)

The Film Journal (Thoughts and musings about the films I watch.)

WRITING ABOUT CHINA: EXPERIENCES AND INFLUENCES FROM THE PRC.

Midnight Train to Beijing (A visa trip gone horribly mildly wrong.)

Reflections on a Thunder Emperor (Gaga has replaced God in China.)

Solidarity is Illusion: The Political Economy of My Little Pony: Friendshipis Magic

STARRING Caroline Timm, Cerris Morgan-Moyer

WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY Oscar Moralde

CINEMATOGRAPHY AND EDITING BY George Ding

MUSIC COMPOSED BY Roger Zare

STARRING
Carmit Levité
Duane Daniels
Charles Anteby
Isabella Peregrina
Carl Lundstrom

PRODUCED BY
Jennifer Montgomery
Eric Fineman
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Robert Lam
PRODUCTION DESIGNER
Rachel Block
EDITED BY
Michael Thai
MUSIC COMPOSED BY
Michael John Mollo
Courtesy of Q6 Studios
SOUND EDITOR
Elizabeth Johnson