Film Professor

From a Film Rating Experiment to a Cinephile Ecosystem What started as a slightly ridiculous question—“Would I pickle this film for perpetuity?”—has turned into something much larger. The Pickle began as an alternative to stars, percentages, and traditional film ratings. I wasn't particularly interested in creating another system that tried to determine whether The Godfather des...

The Illusion of Chaos Imagine walking onto the backlot of a major studio. To the untrained eye, it is a scene of high-speed chaos: a grip hanging lights forty feet in the air, a camera operator checking focus for the tenth time, and a production assistant weaving through the crowd with urgent paperwork. Meanwhile, a producer and location manager debate the logistics of tomorrow’...