Scott Beggs

Movie stuff at VanityFair, Thrillist, IndieWire, Film School Rejects, and The Broken Projector Podcast@brokenprojector | Writing short stories at Adventitious.

Military Intelligence and You! (Austin Film Festival ’06)

By Scott Beggs 

Making movies just isn’t good enough anymore. We’re thrusting headlong into an exciting new world where movies aren’t just biographical, but fictionally biographical; not just documentaries, but mockumentaries; not just fictional, but reality-based fiction. With meta-humor becoming as commonplace in comedies as explosions in action flicks, it’s getting tougher to create the next big twist on classic stories.

Run, Robot, Run! (Austin Film Festival ’06)

By Scott Beggs 

There are more than two parts to making every movie, but if it had to be done, the process could be split into concept and execution. Every critic knows this since many of them rely solely on the arsenal of insults involving the execution of a film, praising its concept as genius while distressing over how it could have been made better. I’m not one to follow trends, but after watching this movie, I’m forced to say that I loved Run, Robot, Run!‘s ideas and yawned at the way they were presented.

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AFF Diary – Day 6: Downhill from here

By Scott Beggs 

The Room (Austin Film Festival ’06)

By Scott Beggs 

Coming straight from Belgium, the horror capital of the universe comes the striking tale of a morally repugnant family that finds a door in their house where one wasn’t there before. It sounds intriguing, but although the idea is interesting, the execution is terrible.

The Night of the White Pants (Austin Film Festival ’06)

By Scott Beggs 

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The Book of the Dead (Austin Film Festival ’06)

By Scott Beggs 

If there’s one thing that American movie consumers are clamoring for, it’s a tale of ancient Japan told with puppets in stop motion animation. For the most part, the only exposure to puppets that America’s had has come in the form of the satirical Team America, and stop motion comes in the form of The Nightmare Before Christmas.

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AFF Diary – Day 5: Half Over

By Scott Beggs 

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The Quietest Sound (Austin Film Festival ’06)

By Scott Beggs 

For most, the recent environment of cinema is the unthinkable mix of brilliant innovation and boring stagnation. The former, is characterized by filmmakers like Gondry and Aronofsky who are brave enough to play around with storytelling styles and camera work. The latter is characterized by the majority of films that can be found on the marquee at your local 800-screen mega-multiplex-o-rama.

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Austin Film Festival Diary – Day 5: Above the Hype and Below the Radar

By Scott Beggs