Category: Movies

  • Trends I Will Be Supporting in 2017

    My second dream job, beside the one of entertainment director in a Las Vegas hotel is actually the one of a trend watcher. Since the chances that I will ever start my career in Las Vegas are slim and I might be successful in watching and predicting trends, I will start this 2017 by listing…

  • About Timing. And Movies. Again!

    No, not again! Well, yes. It’s important. What can I say… But this one will be from a slightly different angle.

  • Working for Your Own Joy and Pleasure

    Pedro Almodovar and Quentin Tarantino were very important directors of my teenage years. Later, during my film studies, I was heavily influenced by their aesthetics and dramaturgy. Each of them in a very different way but I would say equally strong.

  • Look! Up in the sky!It’s a bird!It’s a plane! It’s a Mid-Career Crisis!

    It comes out of nowhere and hits you hard. Usually you hear jokes about men buying red convertibles and chasing younger ladies, and women changing haircuts and in nowadays even buying pairs of new boobs and chasing younger guys. Unfortunately, it’s a bit more complicated.

  • The Logical and Illogical in Business

    There is a movie that I like very much. It’s Stagecoach (1939) directed by one of my favorite directors John Ford. The storyline is quite simple: a stagecoach journey becomes complicated when Apache Indians start attacking it during the trip.

  • Can You Learn Good Storytelling?

    This is the first question that every trainer of storytelling techniques in business has to answer. And they are all going to tell you, with a big smile: Yes! Of course! That’s not something reserved only for the gifted and talented ones.

  • I Want to Be Titanic

    Do I want to sink and kill thousands of people? No, but you will have to read it to the very end to understand my new movie related analogy. My wife asked me few days ago what  in my opinion was the best move ever. Asking someone who graduated from film school this question is…