Sometimes it makes sense to narrow your focus and use a more intimate lens. That’s what I did for my trip to New Orleans. Read my tenth guest post for the Leica Camera Blog.
Read More...Archive for June, 2012
A Luminous Presence
June 28th, 2012 | by David English | published in Leica Blog | Leave A Comment »
No Fighting
June 18th, 2012 | by David English | published in Classic Films | Leave A Comment »
It’s hard to write about Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) without resorting to superlatives. It’s the best comedy of the 1960s. It’s the best black comedy ever. It has the longest title of any Oscar-nominated film. Just as Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) [...]
Read More...Loss of Innocence
June 3rd, 2012 | by David English | published in Classic Films | Leave A Comment »
Some film historians lament that we’ll never recapture the magic of a film noir, screwball comedy, or musical comedy. There’s some truth to that, but why would you want to? Ideally, you learn the lessons from the past and apply what’s equally good from the present. That’s not possible, you say? One of the best [...]
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