June 7, 2005 2004

5 January 2004

I've read through a large portion of your film reviews and I'm really impressed by most of your comments.

9 January 2004

Man, what a fantastic review you«ve posted at IMDB. It«s quite clever and I loved the analogies you«ve proposed. That was really great work. And extremely well developed. My best regards

14 January 2004

I am emailing you in order to thank you for the prolific film reviews you have written on IMDB. They have provided me with a fascinating and enlightening insight into film. A pleasure to read with "no punches pulled", sharp wit and consistency. Keep up the good work. I look forward to reading more from you.

20 January 2004

Pulling back and looking at film from the distance you do is valid and helpful in understanding the medium and the relationship it has with culture at large.

11 February 2004

I have for some time been reading your movie reviews on IMDB. I think you have some really interesting ideas. I was wondering if it's possible to read your yet unpublished book on the subject of folding in films. Being an amateur movie maker (and having read all the McKee's and Vogler's out there) I would be very interested in reading your book.

15 February 2004

I'm really interested in learning more of your ideas on folded films.

16 February 2004

Occasionally I read some comments on IMDb, just to see if anyone have something valuable to say about films. It's seldom, very seldom, someone writing "IMDb comments" have something valuable to say, especially about films. And then I stumbled upon a comment on [omitted] by author tedg. I very much agreed with your opinion and decided to read some more of your comments. Gee, I was surprised (well... more like chocked really!) to see that you've written close to 1400 comments up to date. I started reading some of them, mostly the ones on movies I've seen, and I have to say I find them interesting, some even valuable... Therefor I felt compelled to ask you if you have written essays, or other texts about film(s), somewhere else? If so I would very much like to read it.

19 February 2004

I'm... a student from India, wants to congratulate you on your comment-writing, I've just read your comments on [omitted] and I think they're awesome, then when I saw your list of comments, I thought very highly of you. Good..In fact.. Great.

5 March 2004

Today, whilst at work, wasting my last few hours inbetween IMDB and a sci-fi novel, I happened upon your heap of IMDB reviews and read through fourty or so. To be brief, I took an interest to your insights regarding film and related life and such.

20 March 2004

I really enjoy reading your comments on IMDb.

The problem is that you are the only one (so far) of those which comments/reviews I've read that really says marks the important stuff about the films (and I'm not just talking about the IMDb Comments archive)....

Keep up the good work.

26 March 2004

I'm a 54 year-old assisted living facility resident (Parkinson's) who often uses the "TedG filter" in determining which movies to invest my time and neurons...

26 March 2004

i have read most of your reviews during the last few months, and i would like to congratulate you personally for being the most eloquent and insightful poster on the IMDB. Thanks for all the work you put into that. It really is appreciated... In the hope of reading you again in the future,

26 March 2004

I've been reading many of your IMDB reviews over the past few days and find many of your filmic ideas quite interesting. Particularly your ideas concerning self-reference.

2 April 2004

Your comments on Imdb.com about [omitted] are some of the most interesting and intelligent I've *ever* read on that site. I can only presume, given your e-mail address and level of attention to this *fluff* story, that you're both an avid moviegoer and highly articulate critic.

15 April 2004

Just wanted to say that I think you posted an amazing review of the movie on the IMDB. You articulated, very well, my feelings about the film... Thank you for posting your thoughts.

19 April 2004

I spend a lot of online time researching movies on IMDB, and I wanted to write and tell you how much I enjoy reading your numerous film reviews. I have encountered very few cinema critics anywhere who can approach and delineate movies from such varied intellectual and theoretical standpoints as well as you do. So I thank you for sharing your insights; I've learned a great deal about cinematographic techniques and the processes by which a film is made just by reading them. I look forward to reading more of your output in the future.

21 April 2004

Really good stuff, im a student here in sweden, studying political science and psychology and thinking of saving the world but know it cant be done alone. I dont value the movies as you do but maybe i think that has got with age to do, i think i have all the time in the world but you dont. Or is it that the elderly you get the more you appreciate the finer details of everything when you know the end is near? Oh my, im so depressed ;)

Well ive read almost half of your reviews and the are really nice reading, so much "stupid" stuff on imdb,

27 May 2004

I like your IMDB comments on films and I'm very interested in your upcoming book about 'metarepresentation' or 'self reference' in movies. Is this project a living one? Thanks for your reviews and with best regards,

3 June 2004

I am an admirer of your reviews... In short, I'm going to be in Boston in a couple of weeks and I was hoping to somehow catch a lecture of yours with several of my film buddies.

13 June 2004

I discovered your IMDB reviews when reading comments on Mystic River, which I saw yesterday. I love the way you write, and have made it a project to read the collection of your reviews on IMBD... Thanks for contributing your thoughts to IMDB for the rest of us to see.

13 June 2004

I have been reading through some of your comments on IMDB, and have been intrigued by your ideas. I came across a comment (for [omitted]), where you mentioned that you were writing a book on film. May I ask about the progress of this book, as I am very interested in it.

17 June 2004

i found your imdb reviews when i saw your comment on the frontpage of [omitted]. your comments are really choice and i look forward to using your list to find more great films to watch... also, i noticed that you studied semiotics. i loved foucault's pendulum but couldn't get through name of the rose (i usually take a few tries to get through books that i eventually adore a la ada). i was wondering if you knew a good place to start in the whole semiotics scene, since nobody no longer seems to teach anything like it with a ten foot pole.

thanks a lot for the comments, you make imdb awesome. sorry i can't recommend more, you've seen everything i've seen.

18 June 2004

I have become quite an avid reader of your user comments since stumbling into them in the IMDB. I am glad to see you are working on your own site and organizing the comments better than what IMDB provides. One of the things bothering me there is that I can never know which of the comments are new and which I've already read, so I would appreciate it if you could consider including in your search engine a field that sorts the film comments by the date of their submission.

29 June 2004

after reading your review of the terminal i was drawn to read other reviews you have written

i admire the insight that comes across in your writing

the folding idea that you introduced confused me a little and being a future film maker and fellow de palma fan i was wondering if you could explain it a little more clearly.

many of your reviews seem to place emphasis on the visual side of cinema, and you tend to have a disregard for the acting, plot and story. the emphasis you do place on the camera work or the eye is so intellectually insightful you make me wonder if the director had intended to create the folding or visual technique you explain in such films like [omitted] or even Spielberg's movies.

1 July 2004

This may seem bizarre, but your review of [omitted] showed amazing insight, thanks a lot. It reminded me of Campbell's Hero with a 1000 faces.

12 July 2004

I'm just another IMDB.com user and I came across your review of [omitted]. Just wanted to let you know that you had a very fresh perspective and that it was an excellent review. Most of the posts are overly partisan and lacking of substance, but yours was excellent.

13 July 2004

ted, the deconstructivists are right. it's all in the representation, the inevitable conflict between form and matter. Communication is inherently flawed, so manipulation guaranteed. I very much enjoyed your take on this. I think you're fabulously on target.

14 July 2004

Your 1500+ movie reviews on IMDB.com would indicate some sort of cinephilia extending beyond the range of that one and only website. I enjoy reading your (esoteric, yet deliciously informed) reviews. Would you mind telling me if you run or frequent any other review related websites, or anything of the like?

15 July 2004

I recently came upon your Imdb comments and was completely blown away by some very novel insights you had about certain films and filmmaking in general. It was almost addicting. I spent hours clicking on one review after another, until I had almost read them all. I was especially astounded by a few of your reviews on Tarkovsky's movies in particular. I'm completely honest when I say that I feel you are probably one of the few people in the world who truly seem to "understand" film.

19 July 2004

I read some of your (1503? Wow!) reviews in IMDB, and, finding them very interesting... So. Keep up the good work!

24 July 2004

I am a regular reader of your comments on the IMDB. They intrigued me mostly because of the finesse in your writing, so I kept reading. In one of your comments you mentioned that you were working on writing a book about folding in film. I was just curious whether or not this book has been completed and/or published and whether you have any other published works that I could read. Thanks for any info,

4 August 2004

Hi, I enjoy reading your reviews a lot and was am trying to find details on the 14 methods of folding a story that you mentioned in your [omitted] review. Could you point me out a book, webpage or anything that would give me further info oin the topic?

15 August 2004

You have done quite a few impressive reviews on IMDB... Anyway, I wanted to tell you this particular review that you did was steller, and very interesting to me! Great work! ::bows::

20 August 2004

I'm a filmmaker... I find your reviews highly instructive. Your review of [omitted] was interesting...

My main goal is to understand this business of "anticipatory engagement." How does the next scene exist in the present one? Is this being done photographically? Editorially? Is it in the actors' delivery and bearing? Tone? Texture? All of the above?

...But I'd love to hear your expanded take on the subject, if you have the time... Looking forward to the book.

26 August 2004

Hello there.

I am a film student about to start my first year at the University of Toronto. One day I came across one of your user comments on imdb.com (sorry I do not remember which) and quickly took notice that: "Hey, this guy actually knows what he is talking about". I then went on to read about 50 or so other comments of yours. Some I loved and totaly agreed with, others I resented because you felt the exact oppsoite about the film in question than I did, and some others I ashamedly didn't even understand. I am still a young film student, everything I know I taught myself just by watching movies and making some of my own shorts (to see what works and what doesn't). I also am not fluent with all the jargon, in paritcular - what you said about [omitted] and how [omitted] managed to explore and exploit the notion of "a superhero whose herolife is swooping and three-dimensional".

Now to get to the point. Judging by your email address I am assuming that you have some affiliation with MIT. Are you a professor? Are you a professor of film? And more importantly, why are you not a film critic, why are you not a screen writer or director? Why are you not P.T. Anderson's mentor? I'm sure someone like him or even me can learn a lot from you.

26 August 2004

I've been reading your reviews for two years now, and I can say that you've totally re-arranged my head, vis-a-vis filmmaking. I just made a short film called [omitted] and it's going to be showing at the Los Angeles Short Film Festival in two weeks, and at the Boston Film Festival on Sept. 10. Frankly, I couldn't have done it without you.

29 August 2004

I've been following your writing on the IMDB for a while now. And I find it all very interesting and rewarding, and a great majority of the films that you have given a "four of four" rating is absolutely brilliant.

Now I am wondering (I know it might seem strange, since after all it is film you are writing about) if you could give me some tips of interesting music....I know it might seem stupid of me asking you to provide me with tips, but why not give it a try. I have after all fund so much interesting film and a couple of filmmakers all thanks to you...

By the way, keep on writing your comments.

15 September 2004

...so many reviews on imdb. i enjoy reading them, though they kind of make me feel stupid.

17 September 2004

I'm very interested in this notion of folding. I scoured your website to find more info on it but to no avail. Could you direct me to a better link or send me something? I'd really appreciate it. It sounds very interesting.

4 October 2004

For the past few months I have been reading your fascinating reviews of motion pictures at IMDB. Your theory on 'folding', I'm still trying to get a grasp of and look forward to your book when it is finished.

I know you take war personally and would love to hear more comments from you on that subject matter. The reason I ask is that I am a film maker in [omitted] and am planning my next feature. I've made two no-budget features thus far...

I welcome any of your thoughts on this subject matter...

19 October 2004

I'm working on a script right now and I've got some questions...

19 October 2004

I'm a filmmaker. I went to film school. Learned nothing there. Your reviews are a clinic.

8 November 2004

I found your comments to be interesting and insightful.

17 November 2004

I'm an admirer of your film reviews and enjoy your insight, as well as the negative reactions from intellectually challenged detractors (saw the negative emails)... As for myself, I was a film student in college...

22 November 2004

Ted: I really enjoy reading your reviews

3 December 2004

I just wanted to write and say I really enjoy reading your reviews on IMDb. Your insights, and your selections of films that are important are truly unique, and they help other people who are eager to learn about film broaden their horizons as well.

I seem to recall some mention some time ago of a book you were working on on the subject of folding in films. I was wondering what your plans are for the book, if it will ever see the light of day, etc... and thanks again for all your great reviews.

3 December 2004

I just read your review of [omitted] on imdb.com and I just wanted to say that you are an amazing writer. I've never read something like that on imdb.com. If you haven't already, you should be writing many many great books. Your talent is unmatched!

4 December 2004

I was just wondering when you plan to publish your on-line book on FilmsFolded. I'm still very interested in reading about your ideas.

10 December 2004

around when will the book be published?

10 December 2004

For what its worth I enjoy your IMDB reviews. You saved me $20 from taking a date to see [omitted]... keep up the good work!

11 December 2004

i noticed your comments on IMDB i enjoy reading them. i remember at one point you talking about doing writing on this idea of folding..

14 December 2004

I've been avidly following your film comments for about a year now, and would like to say how much I enjoy them. The fact is, your concepts are one of the factors that got me back into seriously watching movies at a point in my life when I thought I had turned my back on everything viewable on a cathode ray tube (sadly they also give me an continuing exuse to spend too much time surfing the internet.) While I admit that your writing sometimes gets too esoteric for me to follow comfortably, I generally value your approach of avoiding getting caught up in vague rationalizations concerning "just plain good old fashioned entertainment" or similar nonsense. I also really dig the comparative range of film genres you try to cover including (among others): silent cinema, Hong Kong, mainstream Hollywood and even a few surprisingly apt comments on anime (an intense interst of mine a few years ago). I won't bother qualifying this last comment but contrary to your detractors I've also found some good humor in your writing style. I feel I'm writing too much here so I'll just end this paragraph with a 'thanks' and a 'keep up the good work.'

23 December 2004

I recently ran across your post on imdb for the film [omitted]. Your words regarding the film were like a carbon copy of my own thoughts. Our similarities of opinion are stiking. I since have looked into quite a number of your posts and had similar expereiences with many of them. I am only 33 years old and hardly the aesthete you seem to be but I am very intrigued in your opinions and knowledge of film in general. This brings me to the point. You have made references to a book that you have written (or are writing) on cinema. Please let me know if the project has been completed and if so how a person might come across a copy. I look forward to hearing from you. Thanks,