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Name: Landon Palmer
Location: New York, New York
Reject Since: February 2009
Email: landon@filmschoolrejects.com

Bio: A Texan-turned-Angeleno-turned-Brooklynite, Landon Palmer is currently finishing up his MA in Cinema Studies at NYU. Existing more so on the internet than in reality, Landon is co-editor of the online media journal Movement, has written movie reviews for Cinemattraction.com and, in the meantime, occasionally manages to update his blog TalkalotSayNothing. He will sit through any movie, good or bad, in its entirety unless it has the word Caligula in it.


Posts by Landon Palmer:

Culture Warrior: On Hollywood and Cheating

Culture Warrior: On Hollywood and Cheating

I typically save the boiling points for Robert Fure, aiming instead to frame my column as an observation of media rather than a critique, analyzing trends and their meaning in the context of film and television as an intersecting object of commerce and art. But there is something that has been getting under my skin in some films released in the past several months, and it’s the way that Hollywood deals with the subject infidelity.

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Review: Dear John

Review: Dear John

Dear John never strikes the right balance between a Nicholas Sparks movie and a Lasse Hallström movie.

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Culture Warrior: Dressing Up the Twentieth Century

Culture Warrior: Dressing Up the Twentieth Century

This week’s Culture Warrior looks absolutely fabulous in that suit.

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Sarah Polley to ‘Waltz’ with Rogen and Williams

Sarah Polley to ‘Waltz’ with Rogen and Williams

Michelle Williams to lower her standards from Ryan Gosling to Seth Rogen.

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Warner Bros. Looking to Relaunch ‘Mortal Kombat’

Warner Bros. Looking to Relaunch ‘Mortal Kombat’

Another 90s video game is being relaunched as a movie franchise following the heels of the 2009 mega-blockbuster “Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li.”

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Fox Wins Bidding War Over Rodriguez’s ‘Machete’

Fox Wins Bidding War Over Rodriguez’s ‘Machete’

Fox has beat out Paramount and Lionsgate for the chance to distribute a three-minute trailer.

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‘Buried’ Gets Unearthed at Sundance by Lionsgate

‘Buried’ Gets Unearthed at Sundance by Lionsgate

How much does it cost to purchase Ryan Reynolds in a coffin? Apparently somewhere between three and four million dollars.

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Culture Warrior: What is Cinephilia?

Culture Warrior: What is Cinephilia?

The answer to this question, taken literally, is “the love of cinema.” But, of course, nothing (at least, nothing in this column) is ever so simple.

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Unknown Director Given Challenging Task of Resurrecting Christ

Unknown Director Given Challenging Task of Resurrecting Christ

Breaking news: movie producers get the fascinatingly original idea to make a movie about Christ’s death. Why has nobody thought of this before?

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‘District 13: Ultimatum’ Director Teams with Clive Owen for ‘Protection’

‘District 13: Ultimatum’ Director Teams with Clive Owen for ‘Protection’

Clive Owen replaces Paul Walker in the action thriller, which makes me wonder if Owen was also the second choice for Disney’s ‘Eight Below’

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Polanski’s Ghost Writer Gets a Poster

Polanski’s Ghost Writer Gets a Poster

In this week’s fake news, Roman Polanski will be adapting a popular 90s kids’ show.

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See Ken Russell’s ‘The Devils’ in NYC on Monday

See Ken Russell’s ‘The Devils’ in NYC on Monday

On Sunday’s Reject Radio and in yesterday’s Culture Warrior, I praised to the heavens Ken Russell’s notoriously controversial film The Devils (1971). And now you can see it, in NYC.

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Culture Warrior: 8 Great Directors You Should Know More About

Culture Warrior: 8 Great Directors You Should Know More About

This week’s Culture Warrior helps you fill out your Netflix queue.

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Culture Warrior: The 3rd Golden Age of Television

Culture Warrior: The 3rd Golden Age of Television

In the last ten years, practices of storytelling and spectatorship in television have changed drastically, and, most likely, for good.

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Filmmaker Eric Rohmer Dies at 89

Filmmaker Eric Rohmer Dies at 89

Eric Rohmer (1920-2010) was a truly modern cinematic artist with a unique voice, possessing a style that distinguished him from his New Wave contemporaries.

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Culture Warrior: A Look Back at the Cinema of 1999

Culture Warrior: A Look Back at the Cinema of 1999

This week’s Culture Warrior is getting its bunker ready for Y2K.

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Culture Warrior: The Gesamtkuntswerk

Culture Warrior: The Gesamtkuntswerk

This week’s Culture Warrior says that cinema is the ultimate form of art. And it has nothing to do with ‘Avatar.’ Seriously, it doesn’t.

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Culture Warrior: Was 2009 a Banner Year in Animation?

Culture Warrior: Was 2009 a Banner Year in Animation?

While 2009 may have been a weak year for movies overall, animated films shined in a way they haven’t in a very long time.

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Review: Invictus

Review: Invictus

As I reach into my grab bag of critical terminology to describe my reaction to Eastwood’s latest, I come up only with well-worn rhetoric that, nonetheless, fits perfectly to the experience one has walking out of this film: Invictus is disappointing, a major missed opportunity.

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Culture Warrior: The Culturally Significant Films of the Decade

Culture Warrior: The Culturally Significant Films of the Decade

This week’s Culture Warrior gives an exhaustive review of the decade that you won’t find anywhere else on the Interwebs.

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