February 2, 2021
FKA twigs Creates the Best Music Videos
FKA twigs is the first up to be celebrated in Pure Film Creative's new series dedicated to music videos we like as filmmakers....
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August 19, 2014
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What Would You Wear to a Casino?
Nowadays you can watch poker tournaments on television, and because of this going to a casino seems much more casual than in comparison to the Hollywood portrayals of glamorous women and serious men with sharp suits. While it is certainly true that you can get away with dressing smart casual...
August 1, 2013
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ICYMI — Filming Wrong So Very Right
We were upset by The Newsroom episode two weeks ago that had a secondary plot line about Troy Davis‘s institutionalized killing by the the State of Georgia in 2011 — he was in all likelihood innocent. There are myriad problems with capital punishment, but getting it wrong is probably the worst of them.
Little did we know that we were in for a double whammy on the death penalty issue within a week. Those of us who also follow AMC’s The Killing were hoping against hope that Peter Sarsgaard’s character, Ray Seward, would get a last-minute reprieve
July 23, 2013
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ICYMI — The Future is Cold
We’re adding a new regular feature to the PFC site, a mixed salad of items we’ve mined from various sources, namely our friends and likes and contacts who have pilfered them from their friends and likes and contacts. As if you weren’t sick of Facebook already… But at least here we won’t be showing off our vacation snaps and apparently making everyone else depressed and envious. Not that we care enough
May 31, 2013
REVIEW — ‘The East’: A Conspiracy for a Conspiracy Makes the Whole World Blind
There can be no greater incidental marketing boost for a specialty theatrical release like Zal Batmanglij’s The East than the global surge of righteous rage against evil food giant Monsanto and the release this weekend of the WikiLeaks documentary We Steal Secrets, which apparently portrays Julian Assange rather unfavorably at times (as I’ve parodied in another post, I think he’s hilarious).
Made for critical-thinking The New Yorker readers like me,
December 3, 2012
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WATCH: You Are Jelly
The problem with most experimental films, especially those that have a fashion and beauty bent, is that whimsy and pretentiousness are too often lazy substitutes for thoughtfulness.
November 13, 2012
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WATCH: Marc Jacobs is a Wanker
We’re not huge fans of Marc Jacobs because in our opinion he isn’t so much a great designer as a showman for shmatas, and yet he enjoys the status of a great designer, and that’s annoying.
November 13, 2012
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WATCH: How to Shoot Dancers
The more videos that are added to Sigur Rós‘ Valtari Mystery Film Experiment, their on-going collaboration with filmmakers and artists, the deeper our appreciation for the esoteric Icelandic wailers.
November 5, 2012
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PORN: How to Kill an Industry
UPDATE: The controversial, ultimate nanny-state mandate Measure B has been voted in, as we predicted in the post below. For more information, read this post in the LA Weekly. Also this article in HuffPo.
October 22, 2012
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WATCH: Reality Can Floor You
Filmed content is what we love best to create at PFC, so when a clever viral vid comes out that not only has everyone talking, but sparks controversy, we’re all over it.