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  Feel It All Around~Washed Out I’m a film guy and a wannabe filmmaker (as if you couldn’t tell from the copious amounts of film reviews on my blog). I can’t really ascertain whether or not the stuff I make is good but it apparently worked for some people after I blasted my short film to every cheapish film festival I could find in America. By some freak luck, I ended up being accepted to the Portland Comedy Film Festival. So, I got together with my roommate (also a filmmaker) and his best friends and hopped on a plane to go alllllllll the way across the country to watch my short film on the big screen in scenic Portland, Oregon… …Which is what I would be saying if it wasn’t for the fact that COVID rules, especially in a place as hyper-liberal as Portland, Oregon, were still forbidding indoor screenings of large crowds of people so the festival was instead hosted at an outdoor theater in a mountain town outside of Portland called the Dalles. So you can consider this a special t...

To see part 1, click  here . Cleopatra Suite~Alex North - Cleopatra Let’s start off this section by just coming out and saying that 1934 was not a good year for movies. The Hays Code would go into full effect on June 13 th , 1934 when they adopted the Production Code Administration. Starting on July 1 st , all movies would have to be okayed by the Hays Office, in particular Joseph Breen who, as mentioned before, was a Puritanical asshole who embodied everything wrong with 1930s American culture. As a result, a lot of movies that came out during this year were probably made to be edgy and have darker themes but would be severely censored by the Hays Office.  This creates kind of a weird gray zone when it comes to 1934 cinema as films that came out in the first half of the year were pushing people’s sensitivities (e.g. Tarzan and his Mate shows Maureen O’Sullivan swimming naked and leaves very little to the imagination) while ones that came out in the back half were severel...