Colleen Claes
- Location
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Birthday
- January 08
- Title
- Freelance Writer
- Bio
- I'm a freelance writer and blogger when I'm not working 9 to 5. I graduated in 2009 with a B.A. in film and screenwriting. I'm particularly interested in the intersection of media (usually film) and culture. I've contributed to Examiner.com as the Chicago Cult Classics Examiner and have been interviewed by USA Today for my film expertise. I write at a few other places (both for myself and other people), which you find below My Links.
MY RECENT POSTS
- Michelangelo Antonioni: Man
vs. Manmade
August 01, 2011 10:57PM - This is Something I Wrote
June 24, 2011 01:36PM - 'Tree of Life': All I Can
Formulate Thus Far
June 21, 2011 03:56PM - New German Cinema: "When we
are bad, nobody forgets."
April 29, 2011 01:39AM - 'Melancholia': End of the
World as Lars von Trier Knows
It
April 13, 2011 02:37PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “James - I think that's
the best part about von Trier
- you
can say he's
brilliant…”
April 13, 2011 06:37PM - “Thanks for the kind
comments! Appreciate the reads
:-)”
March 09, 2011 02:05AM - “For everyone asking, I
did read the other screenplays
up
for
"Adapated."…”
February 24, 2011 10:39AM - “white and black -
Thanks! Yeah, I just know I
wondered the
same thing while
readi…”
February 23, 2011 09:38PM - “Love this film to death,
and have been meaning to read
the
novel for quite some
t…”
February 23, 2011 09:32PM
Colleen Claes's Links
- Follow Me on Twitter
- @colleenclaes
- Writing Elsewhere
- Gozamos
- Cultural Close-Up
- Chicago Cult Classics Examiner
- Cultural Voice-Over
People have said a lot of things about The Social Network. That it’s sexist, that it’s not true to the real story, that it makes Mark Zuckerberg out to be someone he’s not, etc. But the one thing no one really can
… Read full post »Originally written for and posted on RootSpeak, November 11, 2010.
A friend recommended In Treatment to me about a year ago and so I started watching season one. I became addicted to the show pretty quickly, gobbling it up in large amounts at… Read full post »
Dear feminists: Can we please stop arguing how sexist The Social Network is? Signed, a fellow feminist.
I hadn't even seen the movie yet when I came across an article on Jezebel's homepage, entitled: "The Social Network, Where Women Never Have Ideas." Sounded pretty/… Read full post »
Note to the reader: This post contains
spoilers, but not much more than what is revealed in the film's
trailer.
I apologize. It's too easy to make a crack about whether or not a film adaptation of a novel about clones is a "good enough clone"… Read full post »
I've written a lot about Roman Polanski since he was arrested - after 30+ years - for raping a 13-year-old girl back in the 70s. So now that he chose to speak out for the first time this weekend, it just seems right to "Rage Against… Read full post »
It's not hard to become fascinated with actresses in older, black-and-white films - especially when you're viewing them for the first time in your college years decades later. There's something about the mystique of this glamor of the not-so-ancient past: the cigarette smoking before it… Read full post »
Listen. I didn't ask for HLN to be on when I turned on my television after work today. And I didn't want Jane Velez-Mitchell's awful show, Issues with Jane Velez-Mitchell, to be on either, mishandling the topic of rape.
The "issue" at hand was the number of young women who… Read full post »
I can't bring myself NOT to write about this. Yeah, that's right. I'm talking about the now infamous, mixed received "Telephone" music video/mini epic comprised of a million pop culture references by Lady Gaga and Beyoncé. (Sidenote: Funny - the last time I wrote about… Read full post »
Back in December, I wrote about Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island as one of my "Things to Look Forward to in 2010." After too many weeks of not getting around to it, I finally saw it last weekend. I know, I'm a little late for a prompt review. But the truth is,… Read full post »
My high school Creative Writing teacher - the shockingly short and stout, but sarcastic and profound Ms. Breen - told our class once about how people would camp out at the docks of New York, waiting for the newest Charles Dickens novel to arrive from across the big sea. That was… Read full post »
Why watch the upcoming Valentine's Day with an overload of trite story lines and actors when you can watch these strange cult films instead? Yes, cult classics can tell stories of romance and sex...Just don't expect it to be mainstream love.
Some of the best romantic couples on… Read full post »
When I think of the best foreign films of 2009, the very first film to come to mind is Pedro Almodovar's Broken Embraces (Los abrazos rotos). Starring his muse Penelope Cruz and actor Lluis Homar, this Spanish film told the story of love and the love of film in the style… Read full post »
I got to thinking about female television characters after reading Salon.com: Broadsheet's commentary, "Carrie Bradshaw: Feminist Icon?" I recommend giving it a read whenever you get the chance, but basically: Writer Tracy Clark-Flory debates whether or not the character of Carrie Bradshaw from Sex a… Read full post »
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