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.
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I should hate this movie, but I just can’t. I should hate its truncated
screenplay, its stock characters, and its completely unconvincing
ending, and I sort of do, but not enough.There’s...
You'll forgive the title, but I felt it was the most effective way to
invite those for whom those things matter into the discussion.Last week, there was a link on IMDb that said “Appreciating F...
Late? Whatever. I don't live in New York or LA, I don't have press passes, so I have to wait for movies like Che to roll through my town before I can call for a verdict on the year previous.
First ...
I’m not really sure how I ever made it through Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece, Barry Lyndon, but boy was I glad I did. By the end, I found it without a doubt Kubrick’s most involving ...
Today - I woke up, saw my girlfriend off, threw some bacon and french
toast on the stove, listened to some Christmas music, and prepared to
sit down and finally watch Gus Van Sant's Paranoid Park an...
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...
