Battle of the (Fake) Bands: The 10 Best TV/Movie Musicians
Will the Partridge Family make the cut? No. No they won't. Many of these are chosen because of their names (and in some cases, I’m not even sure we got to see them perform). Still others are chosen...
View Article100 Things I Love About the Movies
I passed a milestone recently here at TDYLF. Thanks to the help of the editors over at IMDB, I passed the 100,000 Hits milestone on Sunday (with a whopping 80,000+ of those hits coming just since...
View ArticleTen Cool Posters for 1990s Indie Films
The 1990s were a magical time for cinema. Studios began to embrace newer, younger filmmakers with their own unique stories to tell. Fortunately, I was old enough to watch these movies, and they...
View ArticleTen Great Tracking Shots
The tracking shot is the gateway drug for film nerds. It’s one of the first camera techniques that any viewer can recognize on film. Dictionary.com defines it succinctly as “a camera shot in which the...
View ArticleBoogie Nights Used the Same Font as the Miami Dolphins
In the opening scene of P.T. Anderson’s Boogie Nights, the camera swoops down on the titular club. The last time I saw it, I realized that I knew the typeface on the club’s storefront from somewhere....
View ArticleGreat Moments in Movie History Using Stick Figures: Boogie Nights (1997)
Since I was fortunate enough to be in college during the 90s indie movie revolution, a lot of the movies from that era are comfort movies to me. Whether it was Pulp Fiction, Clerks, Reservoir Dogs, or...
View ArticleInfograph: The P.T. Anderson Scorecard
P.T. Anderson is back in theaters, with Inherent Vice gaining a wide release this weekend. He has built quite a career for himself. Any conversation about the best American filmmakers working today...
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