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May. 28 2009 - 10:55 am | 23 views | 0 recommendations | 2 comments

Parts to make a whole: a movie game

By JOSEPH CHILDERS

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I’m unabashedly in love with the tumblr Movies in Frames.  The site’s seductively simple premise – summarize an entire movie in just four frames – delivers way more enjoyment-units than it has any right to, but I do think it is missing one thing : Quizzes.  They always list the movie directly underneath the frames, which takes away the fun of competitive movie nerdom.  But I try not to just tear down on this blog, I try to build up, and in that spirit,  here are six sets from the site (3 up top, 3 below).  If you can guess the six movies in the comments first, you win the Palme d’Or of True/Slant : my begrudging respect.  That and two bucks will get you a ride on the A train, you know…

 
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    11:30 am on 05/28/09
    jonathanfoster
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    1. The Truman Show
    2. Heathers
    3. Anchorman
    4. Touch of Evil
    5. Manhattan
    6. Night of the Hunter

    I win.

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    11:33 am on 05/28/09
    Joseph Childers Joseph Childers Ephemera Etcetera

    Dang. I would’ve made it harder if I knew you were playing. Next time, Foster, next time.

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    As a young boy growing up in a small rural town in western North Carolina, I had one simple dream: getting the hell out of a small rural town in western North Carolina.

    Kidding, kidding! I love the South. Where else on Earth could produce both Flannery O'Connor and Lil' Wayne?

    But I have always felt the pull of the big city, and the promise of action, adventure and all-night bodegas that come with it. I've lived in San Francisco, LA, and New York, and I've been lucky enough to work as a television editor for such networks as VH1, BET, CMT, Lifetime and The Travel Channel. I enjoy documentaries more than anything, though, and I'm currently doing research for my own: an investigation of that ongoing American obscenity we call the Drug War.

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