My name is Colin Landon and I am a film major at the University of Arizona. I am from Seattle but was born in Anchorage, Alaska. I began filmmaking in my Junior High days when I was a sponsored snow skater and made films with my friends. I came to Arizona for college in 2007 and was certain that I wanted to be a business major, work in a big downtown building in New York and live the corporate dream. Business is definitely the way the world turns, but it is extremely dry and not exciting at all when you have to learn it in a big lecture hall about bottom lines all the time. So I made the switch to Film Producing and have really found what I love to do. It's a very competitive industry, and I have family who don't quite know what film really leads to. But anything worth working in is hard and takes time. Law school and med school are an additional 4-5 years because the average person can't and shouldn't represent you in court or take your blood pressure while the under qualified lawyer is representing you. Film is the same, the average person cannot make films even with technology becoming more and more accessible. Film is just less institutionalized as other professions, therefore it is looked as more risky, but everyone has to make their own way.
I am mostly into art house, classic films, and foreign films. This blog will focus a lot on these areas but also mainstream and other films.
I want to use this blog as an outlet for films I love and films that I see. I want to express some feelings about films that many might not have seen, as a way of encouraging people to see some lesser known films. I also want to use this blog as a platform to create lists and categorial lists of films in terms of their influence and impact on film history. Finally, I would like there to be expression and debate from readers about films.
Enjoy
Colin T. Landon
