Blog: The Donnybrook Writing Academy

Despite setting the film in the 1980s, Son of Rambow is saturated with a D.I.Y., YouTube sensibility. Along with Michel Gondry's subversive Be Kind Rewind , the three-hour David Lynch mind-fuck Inland Empire , the mumblecore movement and the blockbuster with ten million views, Cloverfield , the first generation of YouTube: The Feature has arrived. But besides everyone???s favorite time-burning website, where did these films come from? Beyond society???s banal desire to be famous, what [...]