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Top 5 – Doomed Romances

Date: Thu, 22 Dec, 2011 at 12:47 PM | Author: Spencer Fornaciari | Category: Audio Extras, MacGuffin Content, Top 5's, Web Exclusive

Another Top 5 segment from The MacGuffin. This time Allen and Brandi share their top 5 doomed romances.

This segment is also available on Stitcher and iTunes. The audio version can be downloaded directly from here. After you’ve watched the video please vote in our poll and share which one you think is the best.

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In The Mood For Love – An Appreciation

Date: Fri, 11 Jun, 2010 at 07:32 AM | Author: Allen Almachar | Category: An Appreciation, Film Reviews, MacGuffin Content

Watching Wong Kar-Wai’s In The Mood for Love (2000) recently, I was reminded again of how great this movie is.  Wong Kar-Wai is one of the world’s very best directors working today, having the ability to take simple themes such as love and loneliness, and melding them in a style reminiscent of the French New Wave directors.  His career started as a writer, ironic being that now he does all of his projects without the use of a concrete script.  Wong Kar-Wai’s directorial efforts prior to In the Mood were often times flashy and eccentric, such as in As Tears Go By (1988) and Chungking Express (1994).  This certainly is not a bad thing, in fact quite the opposite, but for In the Mood he took a different turn stylistically: his camera slowed down, the colors became more lush, shadows and lighting became more apparent, smoke filled the air like a scene from a film noir movie, appropriate for a story about longing and unspoken desire.

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