Jamie Benning is the creator of filmumentaries.com, unofficial feature length documentaries that traces the production of films like "Star Wars" and "Raiders of the Lost Ark" that have had the internet buzzing since 2006. His latest film, released for free this weekend, is "Inside Jaws".
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I think even people who have been living under a rock are aware of the passing of Roger Ebert earlier this week from complications due to a reemergence of the cancer that took his jaw and his ability to speak, but never took his voice. I can’t quite remember the last time I’ve seen...
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Ugh, day light savings time, I hate you so much. I feel completely out of sorts for the entire day every time you happen. I feel like today is a wasted day even though that’s irrational. Anyway, it’s another week and another slate of film festivals to talk about. I’m at neither one of...
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I finally caught Red Tails this week on HBO. I don’t wish to damn it with faint praise, but the George Lucas-financed Anthony Hemingway-directed story about the first all-black squadron of fighter pilots in WW2 was not as bad as you might expect it to be from the trailers or from Lucas’s involvement. Certainly,...
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Heard any good Star Wars jokes this week? No, seriously, have you? The ones I heard were all terrible. But the Disney/Lucasfilm merger was quite a bombshell, and one that came from out of nowhere. The basic conversation about the Disney/Lucasfilm this week was about whether or not Princess Leia counts as a Disney...
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I’ve been thinking a lot about film traditions lately. Maybe because of all of this talk about film being dead, maybe not. Maybe because I’d misheard and thought AMC would be showing Gone with the Wind all day on Thanksgiving instead of The Godfather and The Godfather II. I had a momentary spot of...
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