movies Archives - Nate Cooper

Roger Ebert’s Life The American Dream Itself

by natecooper | Mar 28, 2015 | art, Brooklyn, culture, media, movie reviews, movies, Nate's Thoughts, new york

Photo Credit: Kevin Horan I am a midwestern son. There’s a sequence in the documentary ‘Life Itself’ that suggests that Roger Ebert styled himself as a Chicago journalist in an archetype of public figures like Studs Turkel. He was, for a time, hard drinking and hard...

The Shining and the Function of Dreams

by natecooper | Oct 6, 2013 | aesthetics, culture, movies

I recently watched the documentary Room 237 which explores different interpretations of the 1980 movie the Shining. As you might suspect from a movie as cryptically coded as Kubrick’s, there are a lot of interpretations some more credible than others. What’s clear...

Immersive one-shot movie

by natecooper | Dec 6, 2011 | aesthetics, art, media, movies, technology

I’ve written before about the value of obvious constructiveness in art. It continues to fascinate me that while in the box office Hollywood seems intent on recycling idea after idea in a seemless real-world artifice using CG, the Internet proves over and again...

A Toy’s Trip

by natecooper | Nov 25, 2011 | art, media, movies

Address Is Approximate from The Theory on Vimeo.

Why Apple built Final Cut Pro X – Sachin’s Space

by natecooper | Nov 4, 2011 | culture, digital media, movies, technology

Apple doesn’t care about the pro space The goal for every Apple software product is to sell more hardware. Even the Mac operating system is just trying to get people to buy more Mac computers. The pro market is too small for Apple to care about it. Instead of...