North By NorthWeston

Ramblings on Film, History, Culture and more from the over-active mind of Alex Weston

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Marketing 101 from Starbucks

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Starbucks has a bunch of new ads around town. All of the have the same slogan at the bottom:   "It's not just coffee. It's ...
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Saturday, August 13, 2011

When dialogue reigned supreme?

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Recently Dan Bloom posted a piece on The Wrap titled "When Movies Once Mattered- And Dialogue Reigned Supreme,"  which laments th...
Sunday, August 7, 2011

Telling instead of Showing: Exceptional Cinematic Infodumps

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A cardinal rule of good screenwriting is "Show, don't tell." My several semesters of screenwriting in college basically consis...
Saturday, August 6, 2011

Irritating Trailer Cliche Du Jour: Incessant Fade In/Fade Out

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In a summer where Hollywood has given us a heavy does of sequels, remakes, reboots and adaptations of already existing material (i.e. every ...
Saturday, July 30, 2011

Whoever owns the rights to these posters could make a fortune...

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No long post here, just a comment about a couple of images image I stumbled across during some aimless surfing for vintage movie posters (so...
Thursday, July 7, 2011

Luddite? Depends on your definition.

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In my last post, wherein I ranted about why I'm not a fan of e-books, I offhandedly referred to myself as a 'Luddite.' ["As...
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