Perspectives from a Professor
From the time I was a little girl, I loved the natural world and the world constructed of words. Stories have always made my world go around, and as I got older, the world inside my head became just as real (more so sometimes) than the world around me.
No matter how much I enjoy Melissa McCarthy, Elizabeth Moss, Tiffany Haddish, and the incomparable Margo Martindale, this movie is a mess. Except for the soundtrack. I did appreciate that. I love to support women directors, and Andrea Berloff also adapted the screenplay from a comic book series, but story is the problem here. Elizabeth …
Q & A: Screenwriter Tripper Clancy It’s always gratifying when my former students find professional success in careers they love. I can’t take any significant credit for that, but playing a supporting role in the initial stages seems a little like “paying it forward” out of appreciation for how my teachers nurtured (and nudged) me …
Effective Use of the Frame If you haven’t seen Joe Talbot’s brilliant directorial debut (based on a story by Talbot and Jimmie Fails that is based partly on events from Fails’s own life), you still have a few days to see The Last Black Man in San Francisco in Winston-Salem, Chapel Hill, Durham, Charlotte, Asheville, …
Right now, I am in the chair at the hair salon I visit every five weeks. This means that I have downloaded the WordPress app, figured out how to link to the On Media blog, and am writing my first post on the fly from my phone. Probably half of you are thinking, “So what?” …