http://www.sundancechannel.com/sunfiltered Fresh culture daily. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:20:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 http://www.sundancechannel.com/sunfiltered/2010/02/comedy-class/ http://www.sundancechannel.com/sunfiltered/2010/02/comedy-class/#comments Wed, 24 Feb 2010 23:32:26 +0000 Annie and Lisa http://www.sundancechannel.com/sunfiltered/?p=33581

Recently I’ve had two students in for a weekly tutorial on film and comedy. We’ve been wrapping our heads around the mercurial question: Why is something funny on the screen? What makes it chug? What keeps me in my seat, and laughing? It’s been a pleasure to dissect a few films, and revisit three really good comedies in particular, funny for three really different reasons.]]> http://www.sundancechannel.com/sunfiltered/2010/02/comedy-class/feed/ 1 http://www.sundancechannel.com/sunfiltered/2009/06/learning-or-not-learning-from-the-road-movie/ http://www.sundancechannel.com/sunfiltered/2009/06/learning-or-not-learning-from-the-road-movie/#comments Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:53:42 +0000 Annie and Lisa http://www.sundancechannel.com/sunfiltered/?p=19371 always include such traditional character arcs? Do the drivers on the road in the road movie simply have to learn about themselves? ]]> http://www.sundancechannel.com/sunfiltered/2009/06/learning-or-not-learning-from-the-road-movie/feed/ 0