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Michael Gaughn: The Blah Witch Project, or . . .
“. . . What the Hell Ever Happened to the Future of the Movies?” Remember how The Blair Witch Project was going to change everything? Remember how anybody with a camcorder was going to be able to go...
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Michael Gaughn: Part 2—The Road to Arcana, or Epiphanies for Sale
Epiphanies are the soul of the movies. But, like with a lot of key things, that core fact wasn’t obvious until they disappeared—or were, more accurately, disappeared. And that’s partly, I suspect,...
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Michael Gaughn: Into the Sunset—My Hometown Drive-in Goes Digital
Arnie is out of a job. I didn’t know that when I first walked into the Sunset, because for as many years as I’ve come back here, nothing has ever changed. Mario was behind the grill in a white...
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Michael Gaughn: The Revolution Will Be Televised—So Where’s Your Camera?
I’m not writing this because I know shit about what I’m talking about here. I’m writing this exactly because I don’t. Which, in this instance, I think is a good thing—not just a good thing but an...
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She & Him &“It”
She & Him: Volume 3 (Merge Records) I had a really big thing for Zooey long before she became the way over-exposed “It” girl she is today. I once repeatedly pitched her for a TV series, to people...
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Michael Gaughn: On the 20th Century—Again
The 20th Century Limited is probably the most famous train in movie history—except for maybe the Orient Express. Or that old black & white stock footage of two steam engines slamming into each...
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Vampire Weekend: Suckers
Vampire Weekend: Modern Vampires of the City (XL Recordings) Modern Vampires of the City doesn’t have a bad track on it. It blows the band’s wildly celebrated eponymous debut completely out of the...
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Michael Gaughn: Zach Braff’s Cool 3 Mil & My 2 Cents
Now, let me get this straight: There are Web sites where people give other people money so those other people can make a profit, but those other people are under no obligation to give the people who...
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Michael Gaughn: Movies in a Vacuum, or Suck It Up
It’s recently been argued—you know who you are—that the present state of filmmaking is somehow the best of all possible worlds. A positively surreal—though not uncommon—view even though the signs of...
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Michael Gaughn: Twilight of the Demi-gods
The title of Andrew Robinson’s latest post (“Living in a Spielberg-less World”) made me feel like I’d died and gone to heaven. Could it be that the chief culprits behind filmmaking’s beyond sad state...
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Michael Gaughn: Two Moviemaking Fictions That Deserve to Die! Die! Die!
This is a long one—but it seemed best to address this dubious pair together. Every era has its defining lies—I guess to help us sleep at night by suggesting there’s more meaning to the world than there...
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Michael Gaughn: Filmmaking’s Next Generation, or the Dawn of the Dead
The reasons why are irrelevant, but I’ve had the “opportunity” to watch a lot of student films recently. And seeing them has helped make clear why movies suck so bad now. They also underline why...
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Michael Gaughn: The Travails of Theo’s Theater, or The Shoemaker’s Children
The path, through Theo’s movie collection, to his five-and-half-years-in-the-making home theater. Back in July, 2010, I wrote an article for the New York Times about Theo’s struggles to finish his...
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Michael Gaughn: I Walked With a Zombie, or . . .
“The Rise of the Sociopaths, or . . .” “The Soulless Ones” She took another swig then handed me the bottle as she walked up slowly, looked into my eyes, and said, “Yes.” I hadn’t asked her anything,...
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Michael Gaughn: He Ain’t Got No Soul, or . . .
“They’re Here!” or “I Walked With a Zombie, Pt. 2” She went into Manhattan, to some warehouse in the Meatpacking District, where they made her don a white mask before they’d let her in to see some...
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Michael Gaughn: How NOT To Make A Documentary
[EDITOR'S NOTE: The following was meant to be a private post for the crew of the documentary Bringing Back Bent's. It is being reposted here, for the crew's reference, after being censored on another...
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