tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256060.post3098525636714589880..comments2024-03-17T10:11:46.952-04:00Comments on Film Experience Blog: blog-a-thons ahoy!NATHANIEL Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11597109147678235399noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256060.post-35547202219622429612008-06-27T15:26:00.000-04:002008-06-27T15:26:00.000-04:00Thanks for mentioning me! And the Self-involvemen...Thanks for mentioning me! And the Self-involvement blog-a-thon sounds perfect for me. I've always been pretty terrible at traditional criticism and film reviewing and whatnot, so now I have the perfect excuse to write self-indulgently about my movies!<BR/><BR/>Someone in the Rugrats-a-thon should do a piece on the transition from child actor to adult actor, the successes and the tragedies.The Derelicthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01977480282511477411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256060.post-69539283972184052842008-06-27T09:31:00.000-04:002008-06-27T09:31:00.000-04:00Wise Kwai is sponsoring a Nonzee Nimibutr blog-a-t...Wise Kwai is sponsoring a Nonzee Nimibutr blog-a-thon for the month of August. Time to Thai one on!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256060.post-15110008370978956222008-06-26T20:59:00.000-04:002008-06-26T20:59:00.000-04:00I think for me it's less that I dislike child acto...I think for me it's less that I dislike child actors and more that I find the treatment of childhood in American films to be sentimental and precious to the point of inanity. But give me Francois Truffaut's <I>Small Change</I> or those glorious interludes in Powell and Pressburger's <I>A Canterbury Tale</I> and I'm all yours.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256060.post-32401433358288652212008-06-26T19:35:00.000-04:002008-06-26T19:35:00.000-04:00Thanks for the link! Stealing from a review I read...Thanks for the link! <BR/><BR/>Stealing from a review I read somewhere of the <I>Cat in the Hat</I> movie, I do not like that girl Dakota/I do not like her one iota."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256060.post-56399767824867532512008-06-26T16:51:00.000-04:002008-06-26T16:51:00.000-04:00oh and Jamie is no longer a "child actor"so he's s...oh and Jamie is no longer a "child actor"<BR/><BR/>so he's safe from the generalization. but yes he was awesome.NATHANIEL Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11597109147678235399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256060.post-19117540933803803172008-06-26T16:38:00.000-04:002008-06-26T16:38:00.000-04:00erich of course! I believe it's only through the f...<B>erich</B> of course! I believe it's only through the force of her talent and willpower that the earth keeps on spinning. She hasn't been making any movies because all of her might are keeping the polar ice caps from meltingNATHANIEL Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11597109147678235399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256060.post-82813670304003953572008-06-26T16:02:00.000-04:002008-06-26T16:02:00.000-04:00Jamie and Saoirse aren't too happy about this post...Jamie and Saoirse aren't too happy about this post's comments. And they know karate. Well, probably. I mean, they're both insanely awesome, so why not?J.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/17126912928153855523noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256060.post-8579475149152199542008-06-26T13:31:00.000-04:002008-06-26T13:31:00.000-04:00I hate child actors too, except for Dakota Fanning...I hate child actors too, except for Dakota Fanning, of course.Erich Kuerstenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02850572368098319317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256060.post-27637891731161694472008-06-26T11:48:00.000-04:002008-06-26T11:48:00.000-04:00Culture snob, thank you for the clarification.Culture snob, thank you for the clarification.Janicehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08049113750769117163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256060.post-3225334969412166012008-06-26T11:21:00.000-04:002008-06-26T11:21:00.000-04:00I, too, hate most child actors. But I do enjoy Alf...I, too, hate most child actors. But I do enjoy Alfred Lutter as Ellen Burstyn's kid in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore. "Shoot the dog!"Catherinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09258493877737555910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256060.post-6864975167993826242008-06-26T10:44:00.000-04:002008-06-26T10:44:00.000-04:00Movies about movies definitely! It's always intere...Movies about movies definitely! It's always interesting to see Hollywood's self-centered streak ;o)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256060.post-89707556552466447062008-06-26T09:29:00.000-04:002008-06-26T09:29:00.000-04:00Nathaniel: Thanks for the link!Janice: Yes, in a w...Nathaniel: Thanks for the link!<BR/><BR/>Janice: Yes, in a way, but I hope not. My goal is for writers to get <EM>more</EM> personal than they're comfortable with. Much cinema writing has an air of authority and detachment, and I want to get past that. Put a different way: Most film writing is movies filtered through the self; I want the self filtered through movies.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256060.post-87443398668933006522008-06-26T08:34:00.000-04:002008-06-26T08:34:00.000-04:00but i hate child actors! or, most of them anyway.but i hate child actors! or, most of them anyway.NATHANIEL Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11597109147678235399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256060.post-11098189594073331012008-06-26T08:33:00.000-04:002008-06-26T08:33:00.000-04:00Go on do the Rug Rats Blog-a-thon.Make Michael hap...Go on do the Rug Rats Blog-a-thon.<BR/><BR/>Make Michael happy.Runs Like A Gayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11170144191875296336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256060.post-5579077475816542582008-06-26T07:50:00.000-04:002008-06-26T07:50:00.000-04:00//the Self-Involvement blog-a-thon (intensely pers...//the Self-Involvement blog-a-thon (intensely personal reactions to the movies and whatnot)//<BR/><BR/>Isn't that terribly redundant, though? What else is the blogosphere all about EXCEPT intensely personal reactions - to the cinema and everything else?Janicehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08049113750769117163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8256060.post-81351418043859926592008-06-26T07:30:00.000-04:002008-06-26T07:30:00.000-04:00You've gotta do mine!!You've gotta do mine!!Michael Parsonshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17668853285292187310noreply@blogger.com