{"id":4713,"date":"2014-04-07T00:00:49","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T04:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smugfilm.com\/?p=4713"},"modified":"2025-08-08T04:13:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T08:13:21","slug":"ep1-writing-about-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/ep1-writing-about-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Smug Film Podcast Episode #1 – Writing About Film (4\/7\/14)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n1:07:12 | View on iTunes<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

This is the very first episode of the Smug Film podcast! On this episode, I am joined by fellow Smug Film contributors John D’Amico and Jenna Ipcar. We discuss Matt Zoller Seitz’ article, Please, Critics, Write About the Filmmaking<\/a>, and what we believe the duties of a film reviewer are. We also go on tangents\u2014from Russian cinema to the ideal usage of DSLR cameras\u2014and to close, we answer questions from our mailbag. Be sure to listen to the very end of the episode for a movie joke by comedian Anthony Kapfer<\/a>!<\/p>\n

If you enjoy the podcast, be sure to subscribe on iTunes<\/strong>, and leave a rating<\/strong> and a comment<\/strong> on there as well. Doing this helps us immensely\u00a0<\/em>as far as our ranking on there, which is what allows people to be able to discover us. Word of mouth<\/strong> is always best of all though, so spread the word!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Movie Stuff Referenced in this Episode:<\/strong>
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\nPlease, Critics, Write About the Filmmaking<\/a>\u00a0by Matt Zoller Seitz
\nGeorge Lucas on Akira Kurosawa<\/a>
\nFilm As Film: Understanding and Judging Movies<\/a> by V.F. Perkins
\nComedy’s Greatest Era<\/a> by James Agee
\nThe New York Times’ 1915 Review of Birth of a Nation<\/a>
\nBattleship Potemkin<\/a>\u00a0Dir.\u00a0Sergei Eisenstein
\n<\/a>Frankenstein<\/a> (Picador Books)
\nThe Maltese Falcon<\/a> (Picador Books)
\nKagemusha<\/a>\u00a0by Akira Kurosawa
\nSuntory Whiskey Commercial with Kurosawa and Coppola
\n<\/a>12 Years a Slave<\/a>\u00a0Dir. Steve McQueen
\nHunger<\/a>\u00a0Dir. Steve McQueen
\nShame<\/a>\u00a0Dir.\u00a0Steve McQueen
\nLincoln<\/a>\u00a0Dir. Steven Spielberg
\nShadows of Forgotten Ancestors<\/a>\u00a0Dir. Sergei Parajanov
\nThe Wolf of Wall Street<\/a>\u00a0Dir. Martin Scorsese
\nBring It On<\/a> Dir. Peyton Reed
\nSchooled: The Price of College Sports<\/a>\u00a0Dirs. Ross Finkel, Trevor Martin, Jonathan Paley
\nDear Zachary<\/a> Dir. Kurt Kuenne
\nEraserhead<\/a> Dir. David Lynch
\nManos: The Hands of Fate<\/a>\u00a0Dir. Harold P. Warren
\nThe Brig<\/a> Dir. Jonas Mekas
\nWalden<\/a> Dir. Jonas Mekas
\nDigital Filmmaking<\/a> by Mike Figgis
\n28 Days Later<\/a> Dir. Danny Boyle
\nThe Exorcist<\/a> Dir. William Friedkin
\nParanormal Activity<\/a> Dir. Oren Peli
\nParanormal Activity 3<\/a> Dirs. Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman
\nJurassic Park<\/a> Dir. Steven Spielberg
\nFrozen<\/a> Dirs. Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee
\nToy Story 3<\/a> Dir. Lee Unkrich
\nTransformers 3<\/a> Dir. Michael Bay
\nIvan’s Childhood<\/a> Dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
\nStalker<\/a> Dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
\nSolaris<\/a> Dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
\nShredder<\/a> Dir. Cody Clarke
\nJaws<\/a> Dir. Steven Spielberg
\nEmpire of the Sun<\/a> Dir. Steven Spielberg<\/p>\n

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\"writingabout\"
\n1:07:12 | View on iTunes<\/a> | Download Mp3<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

This is the very first episode of the Smug Film podcast! On this episode, I am joined by fellow Smug Film contributors John D’Amico and Jenna Ipcar. We discuss Matt Zoller Seitz’ article, Please, Critics, Write About the Filmmaking<\/a>, and what we believe the duties of a film reviewer are. We also go on tangents\u2014from Russian cinema to the ideal usage of DSLR cameras\u2014and to close, we answer questions from our mailbag. Be sure to listen to the very end of the episode for a movie joke by comedian Anthony Kapfer<\/a>!<\/p>\n

If you have a question for the show, leave it in the comments or email us at\u00a0Podcast@SmugFilm.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you enjoy the podcast, be sure to subscribe on iTunes<\/strong>, and leave a rating<\/strong> and a comment<\/strong> on there as well. Doing this helps us immensely\u00a0<\/em>as far as our ranking on there, which is what allows people to be able to discover us. Word of mouth<\/strong> is always best of all though, so spread the word!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Movie Stuff Referenced in this Episode:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,3667],"tags":[3705,1838,3685,4046,1947,3397,3670,32,586,2060,3683,1046,3710,4049,4050,3668,3679,3026,3394,996,3712,3692,3704,3680,3686,70,594,3396,95,3698,3708,3676,3677,3693,3689,3702,3691,564,3673,1592,4047,4048,3669,3678,3699,3674,3675,3696,3694,3695,611,610,421,33,104,3671,185,3684,1646,3703,67,3707,3706,3690,3701,3688,3687,3697,3711,3709,1598,3700,3672],"class_list":["post-4713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allposts","category-podcast-episodes","tag-12-years-a-slave","tag-akira-kurosawa","tag-andrei-tarkovsky","tag-anthony-kapfer","tag-bring-it-on","tag-chris-buck","tag-cinema-podcast","tag-cody-clarke","tag-david-lynch","tag-dear-zachary","tag-empire-of-the-sun","tag-eraserhead","tag-film-as-film","tag-film-joke","tag-film-jokes","tag-film-podcast","tag-film-review-podcast","tag-francis-ford-coppola","tag-frozen","tag-george-lucas","tag-george-lucas-on-akira-kurosawa","tag-harold-p-warren","tag-hunger","tag-itunes","tag-ivans-childhood","tag-jaws","tag-jenna-ipcar","tag-jennifer-lee","tag-john-damico","tag-jonathan-paley","tag-kagemusha","tag-kurochka","tag-kurochka-clothing","tag-kurt-kuenne","tag-lee-unkrich","tag-lincoln","tag-manos-the-hands-of-fate","tag-martin-scorsese","tag-matt-zoller-seitz","tag-michael-bay","tag-movie-joke","tag-movie-jokes","tag-movie-podcast","tag-movie-review-podcast","tag-payton-reed","tag-please-critics-write-about-the-filmmaking","tag-podcast","tag-ross-finkel","tag-schooled","tag-schooled-the-price-of-college-sports","tag-sergei-parajanov","tag-shadows-of-forgotten-ancestors","tag-shame","tag-shredder","tag-smug-film-2","tag-smug-film-podcast","tag-smugfilm","tag-solaris","tag-stalker","tag-steven-mcqueen","tag-steven-spielberg","tag-suntory-whiskey","tag-suntory-whiskey-commerical","tag-the-exorcist","tag-the-wolf-of-wall-street","tag-toy-story-3","tag-transformers-3","tag-trevor-martin","tag-understanding-and-judging-movies","tag-v-f-perkins","tag-william-friedkin","tag-wolf-of-wall-street","tag-writing-about-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4713"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7924,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4713\/revisions\/7924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}