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    I’m one of the author’s in the 2022 opdc (didn’t win anything, still trying to bear up under the shame…

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    Thank you for this very interesting collection, and for wrestling with the obviously mixed feelings on this anniversary. And thank…

Category: Film

  • Convergence ‘No longer a theory’

    Oh well, I guess I was wrong when I refuted the theory that games and film can converge. According to Ed Ulbrich, the President of the commercial division of Digital Domain, it’s not just something they’re talking about. By buying the digital effects house and setting out to make games, Michael Bay has somehow proven…

  • Hey UNESCO – What About Us?

    I know that it is incredibly old school to read a newspaper while waiting for a BLT in a pub at lunchtime while out shopping, but I was in an old school kinda mood today. Flipping through the weekend ‘Life’ section of the Gazette, I discovered that the City was hosting ‘Design Montreal’s Open House’,…

  • Hollywood’s Bloody Ballet – What Game Design Can Learn From 300

    OrIf We Would Just Kneel – And Why We’d Rather Die For all of the lip service we pay to the notion of convergence, how many of us really understand what it means? Most often in the game industry convergence is used exclusively to refer to the coming together of games and movies. More ideally,…

  • Portrait of an Architect as and Old Man: Part Three

    Another thing that struck me about Pollack’s The Sketches of Frank Gehry (which is now available on DVD for those interested), was a scene where Gehry recalls, years previously, having asked Pollack how he managed to deal with working in a creative field with such strong commercial constraints. Pollack’s answer (in the perspective of his…

  • Portrait of an Architect as and Old Man: Part Two

    In one sequence in Sydney Pollack’s The Sketches of Frank Gehry, Pollack (who frequently appears in the film himself) asks Gehry if he sees his art in other things, or is inspired by art he sees around him. At first Gehry doesn’t seem to know what he means, and then Pollack explains that sometimes he’ll…

  • Portrait of an Architect as and Old Man: Part One

    For those who know Montreal, you probably know the Cinema du Parc. It was one of Montreal’s most important repertory cinemas, and it screened everything from obscure documentaries to classic films to modern award winners. Admission was cheap, popcorn wasn’t served in torso-sized sacks and you could actually get an 8-ounce soft drink. The Cinema…

  • Smoke Break

    Went and saw Thank You For Smoking this weekend, and sadly it was only ‘okay’. There are many reasons that it never rose above that, but the main one in my opinion is that Writer/Director Reitman never really seemed to decide what this movie was about. Is it a dark comedy about how we promote…

  • always be a good boy, don’t ever play with guns

    Rented Walk the Line last night, and thought it was pretty good though not great. The bad part comes from the fact that it’s a biopic and it struggles with the inherent problems of that format. Plot and rising action don’t tend to neatly map to any life, and in biopics, these things tend to…