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by William Speruzzi 
Every film just by the nature of economic and creative force, internally or externally, has the potential to fail ambitiously. No man or woman sets out to make a bad film. No one person is immune to this plight and no crystal ball can foresee its final destination regardless of what Variety has to say about it. The pure will to create a work that will endure endless scrutiny and hardship takes a dedicated craftsman, politician, psychologist, leader, editor, visionary, disciplinarian, economist and historian. Pushing the limits of budget, creativity and patience can all be a bust in the end but that is in the eye of the beholder. Can hindsight work in a film’s favor? Was the criticism deserved or misguided? What makes a film that aspires to reach beyond the boundaries of entertainment go down in flames? Who gets to determine its demise? What is an ambitious failure? That’s what we’re here to find out.
Join in and contribute. To read the guidelines check out the original announcement post here.
The Entries:
6.20
Ill Wind Blows Coppola No Good from Edward Copeland
Alien 3 from Ray DeRousse
The Quiet American from Paul Hackett
The Horror…The Horror from William Speruzzi
M. Night Shyamalan’s Unbreakable – Ambitious Failure? from Simon Crowe
Death Driving Ms. Henstridge from Erich Kuersten
6.21
The Offer That Should Have Been Refused from Chris Daniel
Drowning in Ambition? from Pacheco
Sgt. Peppers Ambitious Failures Club Band from Pat Piper
Fading in the last leg from Wagstaff
6.22
The Folly of The Fountain from Robert Humanick
Dune: Its Name Is A Killing Word from J.D. Lafrance
6.23
Jose Rizal from Oggs Cruz
Charles Burnett: To Sleep With Anger from J.J. Murphy
6.24
Contact High from Bob Westal
Tears in Rain. Thomas Vinterberg’s It’s All About Love from Jeremy Richey
Still Coming In
Sisa and Ambitious Failure 2 from Noel Vera
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3 Comments
#1. Damian
06.20.2007
This sounds like a great idea for a blog-a-thon, William, and I’d love to participate. However, and I have to be honest here, I wish you had picked another week to do it, because I’m going to be rather busy with my own Filmmusic blog-a-thon. If I weren’t, of course, I would definitely have chimed in with a few movie picks that I thought reached for greatness but didn’t quite succeed. Anyway, good luck.
#2. Ambitious Failure Blog-a-Thon - Movie reviews - Spout 06.21.2007
[...] blogathon. Beginning today and running through Sunday the 24th, the blogathon was initiated by William Speruzzi, who writes: Pushing the limits of budget, creativity and patience can all be a bust in the end but [...]
#3. Bunta Sugawara
06.23.2007
Someone should do Friedkin’s “Sorcerer”!
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