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News From the Corner of Screen and Writing…

October 17, 2019 By Walker McKnight 2 Comments

Got a bit of wild news last week. I'm one of the winners of the 2019 Nicholl Fellowships--a competition I've been entering yearly for at least a decade now. It's completely unexpected, very wonderful, and somewhat anxiety-producing. It may also inspire an uptick in donut-eating. Posting about winning a competition (of any kind) is not something I would normally do. My brain, bless its fluttery little heart*, doesn't like public attention--even for positive reasons. Give me good news, and I'll instinctively look up, searching for the piano about to drop on my head. But I decided to post … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Film Love Tagged With: film, movies, Nicholl Fellowships, Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting, Screenwriting, screenwriting competitions

1999

May 2, 2019 By Walker McKnight 2 Comments

On a crisp September evening in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1999, I accompanied two fellow residents of my dorm-style apartment building, Le Foyer George Williams, to a local theater to see Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut. It was Kubrick’s first film in twelve years, an event in itself, and the official promotion for the film promised a lurid, boundary-pushing good time. The three of us ate American fast food prior to the movie—a memory of particular clarity because the two young women, one German and one French, had insisted—and then argued over whether to eat at McDonald’s or Burger King, each … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Eyes Wide Shut, Fight Club, film, Geneva, Kubrick, movies, Stanley Kubrick, Switzerland

Blade Runner, Je T’aime

October 4, 2017 By Walker McKnight 6 Comments

blade runner

I rewatched Blade Runner last night as a sort of prep session before seeing the new Blade Runner 2049. The original is my favorite film (still) and has been for the past 20 years, so I’ve got the thing pretty much memorized, but it seemed fitting that I see it again. From this point on, any popular discussion of Blade Runner is going to center on the new film, or at least include it in a big way, and I feel a strange sense of loss as a result. Silly, maybe, but there it is, so watching the original was also about visiting this universe for a last time while remains the dominant version out … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Fiction & SciFi, Film Love Tagged With: Blade Runner, Blade Runner 2049, film, Harrison Ford, Philip K. Dick, replicant, sci-fi, science fiction, Walker McKnight

When a Movie Makes You Crazy

April 13, 2017 By Walker McKnight 4 Comments

raw movie

I saw a movie on Thursday, and it blew me away. Julia Ducournau’s Raw is about a young veterinary student who becomes a cannibal. It’s the best new film I’ve seen twenty years. I’m going to skip the traditional accolades here. Too many writers are better at describing why the film is great than I would be. And reviewing is not what I do on this blog. I will sometimes point you toward things I like, but mostly it’s a bizarre show and tell with a bit of futurism. So I will instead describe my reaction to Raw, and that will serve as my review. It will also demonstrate how crazy I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Film Love Tagged With: cannibalism, film, horror, Julia Ducournau, movies, Raw, Raw movie, Walker McKnight

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