Strange Duck Films http://www.strangeduckfilms.com/ Short works by Mary Ann Casavant en Copyright 2009 Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:03:46 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss A HORSE IS A HORSE ZOO

ZOO, the controversial new documentary about stallions and the men who love them (and not in that Disney, MY FRIEND FLICKA sort of way) takes an unpalatable story and transforms it into a fable that is as pretty as it is boring.

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]]> http://www.strangeduckfilms.com/2007/04/paris_postcard_iii_a_matter_of.htm http://www.strangeduckfilms.com/2007/04/paris_postcard_iii_a_matter_of.htm All Strangeduck Videos Sun, 22 Apr 2007 19:33:37 -0500 Souvenir: Coney Island Rushes Thor Equities recently announced that the summer 2007 would be the last summer for Astroland, the amusement park located at Coney Island. Strange Duck is dedicated to documenting the park and Coney Island in its final season as part of a larger project. The following video is a series of rushes. Strange Duck looks forward to expanding its coverage of the park during its final season.

]]> http://www.strangeduckfilms.com/2007/04/souvenir_coney_island_rushes.htm http://www.strangeduckfilms.com/2007/04/souvenir_coney_island_rushes.htm All Strangeduck Videos Tue, 17 Apr 2007 17:45:27 -0500 This American Life: The Cameraman This week, Strange Duck was invited to be the guest blogger for the music blog of THIS AMERICAN LIFE.

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THE TV SET is yet another entertainment industry satire written and directed by yet another industry insider (in this case, Jake Kasdan, director of the beloved television show FREAKS AND GEEKS). But luckily for us, THE TV SET is more than just another addition to a genre that has grown staler than Sunday night’s episode of ENTOURAGE. It lands a solid triple axel: it is funny and touching without being precious.

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]]> http://www.strangeduckfilms.com/2007/03/nothing_gold_can_stay.htm http://www.strangeduckfilms.com/2007/03/nothing_gold_can_stay.htm All Strangeduck Videos Thu, 29 Mar 2007 20:01:54 -0500 All Girls' School

]]> http://www.strangeduckfilms.com/2007/03/all_girls_school.htm http://www.strangeduckfilms.com/2007/03/all_girls_school.htm All Strangeduck Videos Thu, 29 Mar 2007 16:52:26 -0500 The Winds of War/The Wind that Shakes the Barley THE WIND THAT SHAKES THE BARLEY, winner of the Palme d’Or at the Cannes film festival, begins innocuously: a group of young men play field hockey, slapping each on the back after a good play. The familiar green hills of Ireland roll picturesquely in the background. Nothing in the opening scene portends the violence that will shape each of these young men into revolutionaries.

But this is 1920s Ireland, a place infested by violence, and before we have even had time to distinguish between the young men, one of them is already dead, killed by British soldiers in front of his grandmother, his mother and his sister for nothing more than refusing to say his name.

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Playwrights are luckier than screenwriters in at least one respect: their only limits are the limits of the audience’s imagination. How they must pity the poor screenwriter, who writes knowing that if he writes about an office, his story will look like an office. In the film adaptation of the wildly successful play HISTORY BOYS, Alan Bennett the screenwriter never quite figures out how to deal with the location selected by Alan Bennett the playwright.

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]]> http://www.strangeduckfilms.com/2007/02/ice_skating.htm http://www.strangeduckfilms.com/2007/02/ice_skating.htm All Strangeduck Videos Sun, 11 Feb 2007 21:01:08 -0500 FACTORY MADE/FACTORY GIRL FACTORY GIRL

Even though FACTORY GIRL, the new biopic about Edie Sedgwick, was made 11 years after BASQUIAT and I SHOT ANDY WARHOL, it’s hard not to compare the three films since they all purport to tell you the truth about Andy Warhol and the Factory. So, I contacted the two earlier films’ biggest fan, 14 year-old Mary Ann Casavant, to ask her what she thought of FACTORY GIRL. She wrote the following review:

I have always known that I should have been alive in the 1960s, but it’s been hard for me to figure out which part of the decade I really would have wanted to experience the most. For a while I thought I would want to be a hippy in the late 1960s, you know the long hair, Woodstock type? But after watching BASQUIAT and I SHOT ANDY WARHOL, I began to think that maybe I would want a member of the Factory instead.

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