After a brief back-and-forth with the Cicerone Certification Program (that we remain big proponents of), we are going to have to change our name. We always knew it would be an issue, but had hoped that earning the rank of Certified Cicerone would allow us to keep the name of Cinema Cicerone. We have since learned that is not the case, and the only use of the word cicerone that is acceptable is the full title, so Certified Cicerone, Advanced Cicerone, or Master Cicerone, depending on one's rank. So we are combining our two-word name into a portmanteau. We will, from now until forever, go by the name CINEMARONE. Nothing else will change, and we shall never speak of this again. Cinema Cicerone is dead, long live Cinemarone!
-Dustin
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We at Cinemarone love David Bowie. He was a thrilling artist, a chameleon, and a jumping-off point for many frank discussions about gender, sexuality, heteronormativity, mental illness, drug abuse, etc. His style was inimitable, though many tried, and his passing has left a hole in our culture that will never be filled. He was The Man Who Sold the World, Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane, The Thin White Duke, The Man Who Fell to Earth, Pierrot, The Goblin King, The Outsider, The Elder Statesman, Meta-Bowie. To honor this strange, brilliant creature, we will be doing a retrospective next week featuring five Bowie movies. Check back every weekday for a new pairing with a new iteration of the late, great David Bowie.
-Dustin While writing the recent pairing for Return to Oz, I did a lot of thinking about the movies from my childhood that were ostensibly designed for children. They were a far cry from the movies being churned out for kids today. Movies today are toothless. There is no danger, and therefore no deeper connection. When Kevin performs a heroic sacrifice at the end of Minions, there is never any doubt that he will survive. Illumination Entertainment would never kill one of its main protagonists, even if it is just one out of a horde of identical sentient yellow blobs. That might upset someone, and you don't hit a billion dollar worldwide box office gross by upsetting people. And why even bother making entertainment for children if you aren't going to make insane amounts of money by doing so?
I hate spoilers. I don't understand people who say they aren't bothered by them. I won't even spoil movies for people when they want me to. Especially if they say they're never going to watch the movie, so it doesn't matter if I spoil it. If you want to know what happens, watch the fucking movie yourself. I'm not your own personal CliffsNotes for movies.
Having said that, I have learned to regulate my disdain for spoilers. They are simply a fact of life in this day and age (fuck, that phrase makes me sound like an old man). But some spoilers are unavoidable. And, largely, they don't really matter. But other times spoilers do exactly what their name implies: they spoil otherwise fine entertainment. So, quickly, I want to lay the groundwork for this new feature on Cinemarone. In this blog, we will be talking about things peripherally related to movies and craft beer. Sometimes we will post reviews, either of a movie we recently saw that we feel very passionately about (positively or negatively), or some new craft beer we feel deserved a special mention. But we are also going to take some time to just talk about the things that make movies so special to us. Or things that make craft beer such a joy.
So there's not going to be much in the way of structure as far as this blog is concerned. Posts will pop up whenever one of us has something they want to say. Their tones will range from serious dissections of art to pointless tangents about you name it. We will try not to devolve into blatant fanboyism (though we will occasionally fail in this noble endeavor). We will also try to keep the ratio of positive posts to negative ones squarely on the side of the positive. Again, we'll try. So please check back often to see what new beer is hitting our palates just right, or what movie is rewiring the pathways in our brains and making us better people. No matter the topic, we promise to relay our thoughts on it in a passionate and enlightened manner. Except when we don't. -Dustin |
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