But Dave… what does it all mean?

Before I go on with my inaugural second review, I probably have to explain the name of this blog.

Back in the days of Windward High School, I took a great film class taught by a man named Kiloh Fairchild. Kiloh showed us some great films and some “great” films that were, as Sammy likes to say, movie-medicine. And sometimes this medicine didn’t go down as Kiloh would have liked. I’ll never forget the sight of our enraged teacher walking back into the classroom, having left us to take an quick conversation with a fellow teacher, finding Todd Fasen with his guilty finger on the fast-forward button, attempting to speed up what was slow-death-by-Birth of a Nation.

I digress. Kiloh taught us about film, filmmakers, and bits and pieces of filmmaker knowledge, including MOS.

MOS is script short-hand for indicating a scene shot in silence. Using broken-English/German, as it essentially stands for the phrase, “Mit Out Sound,” presumably (and “according” to Wikipedia) once uttered or shouted by either Ernst Lubitsch or Fritz Lang. And in 9th/10th grade, we endlessly shouted the phrase in a heavily accented German accent to our hearts content.

Thus, I find it an apropriate title to this blog. And a great segue to our fir— second, review which happens to be a German movie! Prost!