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Film Course 101

JONATHAN MOYA February 20, 2019

Film is fluid, ink, light, meter an illusion of light that completes the rhyme, a gleaming that is one right word away from the essential one, that one weak word that shows up at the top of the auto-rank, a …

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Death Is Like No Movie I Have Ever Seen: The Trailers

JONATHAN MOYA February 18, 2019

At the Miracle my young brother saw death for the first time in a shark called Bruce, Jaws swallowing the onscreen boy on the raft in a chum wave that rippled from the light, a death that drenched every body …

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“Alita: Battle Angel”: Greatness on the Mechanics of Being a Teenager

JONATHAN MOYA February 17, 2019

James Cameron as a producer and Robert Rodriguez as the director of Alita: Battle Angel have such a firm grip on the mechanical heartbeat of what it means to be a teenager that they can control the flow of Alita …

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“What Men Want” Is Not to See This

JONATHAN MOYA February 16, 2019

The lesson here is take actors who can do comedy and believably fill in the blank character spaces over comedians who improvise lines for the laughs but can’t handle the character down time. Henson is the clear winner here. All …

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She rise

JONATHAN MOYA February 15, 2019

He didn’t want her to go into triteness until he get to the other side of her memory floating away like a balloon, an ordinary thing, an ordinary word, in a world full of the weight of ordinary things. – …

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An Elegy and a Kaddish for Parkland: Activism of Blood and Parkland Sighs Seven Times

JONATHAN MOYA February 14, 2019

Elegy: Activism of Blood They never expected to be claimed in the activism of blood, the March for Lives, the tour across the country filling in for the senior trip for some; the pledge of voter registration for others, replacing …

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Core Curriculum

JONATHAN MOYA February 13, 2019

The core curriculum downplays music, the arts, how to read and feel a poem, stresses STEM and how to zigzag to avoid a bullet, basic life survival skills. – Wouldn’t it better be for them to experience an Ode to …

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