Saturday, March 25, 2006

Another Hit Movie Recommended To Me By Netflix



Murder On A Sunday Morning.

It's a documentary about a black teenager who is accused of murdering a white woman at a hotel in Jacksonville, Florida.

The film is directed by Jean-Xavier de Lestrade. I gave it a five-star rating at netflix.com.

Tuesday, March 21, 2006

Netflix Provides Much-Needed DVD Rental Alternative to Walk-In Stores


Netflix founder Reed Hastings.

I started renting films from Netflix last year.

Their huge selection — over 55,000 titles — is one of the reasons I have a membership.

I remember there were times when I would walk into a video store looking for an Akira Kurosawa film or some documentary that I read about on Roger Ebert's website, but would be told by a clerk that they didn't carry the movie I was looking for.

I no longer have to experience this because of Netflix.

Patrick Goldstein of the LA Times wrote an article about it.

Sunday, March 19, 2006

I'll Be Attending Film School at LACC This Summer



Going to film school has been on my mind for the past two years.

I believe in the visual medium. It catches peoples' attention. It reaches a mass audience. And I think it has this special ability to reach people at a deep, soul-shaking level.

It only takes four classes to obtain a certificate in cinematography — my area of interest.

Some of the movies that I think had stand-out photography were:

1) Sleepers
2) Ran
3) George Washington
4) Badlands
5) Days of Heaven
6) He Got Game

Los Angeles Community College has had some notable film industry graduates. They include Albert Hughes (co-director of Menace to Society) and Karen Moncrief (director of Blue Car).