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Qualities Of Better Films #11 of 31: Synthesis of Style & Themes

The alignment of form and content is a form of poetry unto itself. Does the technique reinforce the content or vice a versa? Although there is no right way to judge whether the two forces are aligned well, an audience knows it when it sees it. When there is a true synthesis of style with the content and themes, we know that we have seen a film well told. The attempt to unify these two different strands is itself a pleasure to witness, whether or not the filmmakers have actually achieved some form of synthesis.

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Ted Hope is an American independent film producer based in New York City. He is best known for co-founding the production/sales company Good Machine, where he produced the first films of such notable filmmakers as Ang Lee, Nicole Holofcener, Todd Field, Michel Gondry, Moisés Kaufman, and Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, among others. Hope later co-founded This is That with several associates from Good Machine. He later worked at the San Francisco Film Society and Amazon Studios.

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