Bohemian Cinema By Jonathan Pacheco

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Essay

Film Handicapping and “Blanc de Blanc”

I don’t like the idea of handicapping films. Whether it had a budget of $300 million or just $300, whether it was shot over two years or over two weeks, I wish I could evaluate every film on the same plane.

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Essay

“…Around”: Admirable Resolve

There are some who cringe at the thought of film school, believing that real filmmaking and storytelling can’t be taught in a classroom, only through experience. Some of these people claim they’d rather make their own movies and live on the streets, far away from the cookie-cutter safety of film school.

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Review

“The Notorious Newman Brothers” (2009)

“Small-time crooks” doesn’t even begin to describe the Notorious Newman Brothers. As two low-rent movie-quoting Italian-Canadian mobsters, they boast of drug deals and murders (including some in the little-known 4th and 5th degrees) but the reality around them contradicts; in one of the first moments we spend with them, they’re breaking into a neighborhood home.

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Review

“Confusions of an Unmarried Couple” (2007)

Confusions of an Unmarried Couple is, in essence, one big long argument. Dan (Brett M. Butler), months after catching his fiance Lisa (Naomi M. Johnson) cheating on him, has decided he wants to set things straight.

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Review

“Gravida” (2007)

A single, pregnant woman goes about her days alone. Time goes by slowly as she frequently checks the clock, only to see that it’s not nearly as late as she hoped it would be (I now know I’m not the only one who does that). Her life is quiet, and, essentially, life-less, and it seems she’d do anything to not feel this way.

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