Scott Nye
Spending most of his time as a student of film and media studies at Emerson College in Boston, Scott Nye can be found in Portland, OR a few months out of every year. He has a history with comic books and a background in high school theatre, but try not to hold either against him.
Blogs by this Author
No, I don't work for Criterion and I benefit from this in no way. It's just awesome and something I thought should be shared. If you hit up the Criterion Collection online store, they're having a 40% ...
Quick setup so this doesn't seem totally insane - I wrote this for a class given this basic instruction, taken from Christian Keathley's 2006 book Cinephilia and History, or The Wind in the Trees:"Sel...
Some days, there’s a movie…The day of the screening for Slumdog Millionaire, I was wiped. I’d been up late the night before doing homework, had around five, six hours of sleep when a...
It’s almost impossible to talk about this movie without spoiling, so
if you don’t want to know how it ends (and I know there are a fair
number of people who have actually seen it and wis...
“Show, don’t tell” is one of those things that gets pounded into your head in all avenues of creative writing, but especially in film school. The idea behind the mantra is that it...
This week’s a relatively light column. Too many other deadlines looming, on top of which I’m getting ready to move to Portland for a month and a half, so I’ve got an apartment to get...
It’s kind of strange to see the sudden surge of critics tripping over themselves to say how much they love (and have always loved) Ang Lee’s Hulk. I mean, maybe they were there in 2003; I ...
I just found out that Warner Home Video is releasing a 172-minute Extended Cut of Terrence Malick’s The New World.I should make one thing perfectly clear – I love Terrence Malick, and seei...
I know this is an odd time to publish this, given the recent passing of Stan Winston, one of the great practical effects artists, but...I love computer-generated imagery. And I'm tired of it getting a...
