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[Our 5-year anniversary look back at Candleblog continues with another film review -- this time it's Garden State. This post was originally published on 8/21/04.] Remember the good old days of American independent film, when Quentin Tarantino and Jim Jarmusch reigned supreme? Wry post-modernism was the dominant paradigm. The characters that populated indy films in [...]

Emily is applying for a job as the “Email Fairy” at Ravelry.com. We cut this little video together to help sell her to the powers that be there. Check out Emily’s Etsy shop for more knitted awesomeness. Emily’s Ravelry Video from Bill Simmon on Vimeo.

The internet is abuzz this week, reacting to the long-awaited, much anticipated release of the Watchmen movie. Emily and I went to go see it on Friday with our pod of nerds and this blog post has been percolating around in my head since then. This post isn’t so much a review of Watchmen as [...]

Check out this interview with yours truly on the new local radio show, The Browser. We talk all about “social media” and a bit about VCAM and futurism and democracy and a bunch of other crap. Listen to me bloviate at length at your own risk. Thanks to Jonathan for having me on.

I start teaching my intro to filmmaking course at CCV tomorrow evening (a week late due to a snowstorm last week) and tonight I’m getting some materials together for it, so I’m thinking about the filmmaking process a bit. As I was organizing my papers and thoughts, @VERMONTCAM sent out a tweet linking to this [...]

A Thousand Words from Ted Chung on Vimeo.

The bad news is I didn’t get into Sundance. No big surprise there — I only entered because Withoutabox.com made it so easy. The good news is Netflix is now offering their online movie service for Mac users! So it’s really a wash as far as the day goes.

I saw this at Gerry Canavan’s blog and thought I’d throw it out here. Comments have been dead here lately so add your results below… Basically, you look at the list of films by the various famous directors and pick which film you think is the best from each director. We may all agree that [...]

Back before Arthur Adams moved out to San Francisco to seek his fame and fortune, he made and played music here in Vermont. One of my favorite tunes he used to sing was called “It’s Time.” Well Arthur has been badgering me to submit a video for the Blammos November project and it just so [...]

I quite liked the new Bond film. It’s a direct sequel to Casino Royale — so much so that if you haven’t seen the earlier film recently, you might want to bone up on it in order to understand the convoluted plot of QoS, which opens just minutes after the close of Royale. The filmmakers [...]