The title of this new movie blog is not intended to be pretentious—though obviously film qualifies as art and I will comment on film under such “pretense”
The title is not necessarily just supposed to be clever and trademark-able—though obviously for the purposes of using blogger (and differentiating this blog from my existing one, where I occasionally make political entries or post essays or speeches I’ve written for college) it needed a unique address
The title should convey some seriousness—despite the tone I will probably end up taking most of the time—in my take on film
Specifically, the title, for those who have never heard the term “seventh art” before, it is a reference to the work of Ricciotto Canudo, who about a century ago suggested that the emerging art of cinema was the seventh art, rising out of a combination of the already existing six (architecture, music, painting, sculpture, poetry and dance)
Also specifically (but not intentionally), the title—or the version I ended up using—could be taken as a reference to the film SE7EN, one of my personal favorites
Anyway, I hope to post here regularly—starting with some commentary on various Oscar worthy films for 2010 in the next few days—so that this once-upon-a-time USC cinema-major wannabe can talk about films everyone’s talking about and films no one’s even bothered to see
At present, I am a student again, having returned to school a few years back. I am no longer trying to major in cinema but I do make plenty of time for films and should have plenty to say about them, about those who make them, and about those who watch them
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