J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...
In the real world, we all move through time together. Things happen in a linear order. In the movies, they don't have to. Take the recent horror blockbuster "Weapons." (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "WEAPONS") ...
Quentin Tarantino's most overlooked movie, Jackie Brown, is one where he perfected a filmmaking technique that he worked on first in Reservoir Dogs.Tarantino is a film scholar thanks to his time ...
In the real world, events happen in a linear order - but in the movies, they don't have to. A look at the Rashomon effect, and how films handle complicating the narrative. In the real world, we all ...