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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: What is Hitchcockian Suspense?

Culture Warrior: What is Hitchcockian Suspense?

To movie critics (including myself): yer doin’ it wrong.

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Culture Warrior: Slow Isn’t Boring

Culture Warrior: Slow Isn’t Boring

Some movies are meant to be slow. It’s not necessarily a bad thing. Slow can be beautiful.

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Culture Warrior: Horror 1960

Culture Warrior: Horror 1960

1960 changed horror filmmaking forever. Don’t believe me? Read on.

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Culture Warrior: Good and Bad Biopics

Culture Warrior: Good and Bad Biopics

The successful biopic is something that takes a truly masterful hand to accomplish, but not many movies do it well. This week’s Culture Warrior asks why.

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Culture Warrior: Through a Child’s Eyes

Culture Warrior: Through a Child’s Eyes

In Where the Wild Things Are, childhood logic is never illogical and to act as a child is not the same thing as being childish.

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Culture Warrior: Found Footage Filmmaking

Culture Warrior: Found Footage Filmmaking

This week’s Culture Warrior talks fake movies that look real but are fake, from Paranormal Activity to Blair Witch to old people getting in it with garbage.

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Fantastic Fest Review: Bronson

Fantastic Fest Review: Bronson

Bronson is a truly unique and ambitious, occasionally impenetrable piece of filmmaking carefully calculated in its execution and matched by Tom Hardy’s magnificent, career-defining lead performance.

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Culture Warrior: Responsible Film Criticism and the Case of ‘Antichrist’

Culture Warrior: Responsible Film Criticism and the Case of ‘Antichrist’

Don’t worry, Landon is done arguing his case for Lars von Trier’s new film, but he has a bone to pick with critics who feel entitled to spoil it simply because they don’t like a movie.

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Fantastic Fest Review: Antichrist

Fantastic Fest Review: Antichrist

Lars von Trier’s new film is about a dysfunctional couple.

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Fantastic Fest Review: Clive Barker’s Dread

Fantastic Fest Review: Clive Barker’s Dread

This adaptation of a short story by Clive Barker contains a compelling concept that deserved better treatment.

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Fantastic Fest Review: The Children

Fantastic Fest Review: The Children

The UK horror flick gives a nice fresh tweak to a tired and all-too-familiar horror trope.

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Fantastic Fest Review: Macabre

Fantastic Fest Review: Macabre

This Indonesian horror flick/gorefest stays reliably within the comfortable realm of predictability, and that’s not necessarily a bad thing.

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‘Panic’ is Coming to a Town Near You

‘Panic’ is Coming to a Town Near You

One of Fantastic Fest’s best surprises has US distribution and a release date.

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Fantastic Fest Review: Paranormal Activity

Fantastic Fest Review: Paranormal Activity

Paranormal Activity follows the Hitchcock 101 school of filmmaking like it’s scripture: show as little as possible and let audience imagination fill in the rest. It’s a rule most horror films could implement a bit more, and it works in this film to an astoundingly effective degree.

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Culture Warrior: Cinemetropolis

Culture Warrior: Cinemetropolis

This week’s Culture Warrior takes a look at three great American cities and their equally great cultures of movie nerd-dom.

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Culture Warrior: History, Nostalgia, and ‘Mad Men’

Culture Warrior: History, Nostalgia, and ‘Mad Men’

This week’s Culture Warrior is so good that it took three extra days to write.

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Culture Warrior: Digital Creatures

Culture Warrior: Digital Creatures

This week’s Culture Warrior explains why puppet Yoda is far superior to digital Yoda.

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Culture Warrior: Independent Music/Independent Film

Culture Warrior: Independent Music/Independent Film

This week’s Culture Warrior examines how independent film is changing the relationship of film and music, and questions the validity of the “indie” label.

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Culture Warrior: ‘Inglourious Basterds’ and the Political Movie Theater

Culture Warrior: ‘Inglourious Basterds’ and the Political Movie Theater

This week’s Culture Warrior explains how Tarantino’s latest has matured the filmmaker beyond simple homage to cinema’s past and instead displays a reverence to the overall potential power movies have to offer, rooted in the sacred experience of the movie theater.

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Culture Warrior: ‘District 9′ and the Legacy of Highbrow Sci-Fi

Culture Warrior: ‘District 9′ and the Legacy of Highbrow Sci-Fi

This week’s Culture Warrior looks at District 9’s place amongst the very best of smart science fiction.

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