Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Me!
Full Name: Sarah Elizabeth Krocker Bonilla, M.A.
Nickname: Reel Monkey
Birth Date: December 15, 1980
Title: Co-Owner of the Picture Show Pundits, Film Critic, Academic
Biography:
I'm originally from Milwaukee, Wisconsin and I moved to North Carolina in May 2002 to be with Mac, who was then my fiancée, and to attend UNC-Chapel Hill for my graduate work in Romantic and Victorian Literature. After a rocky semester, I felt more and more inclined towards film studies and I made to leap over to NC State, which was also a good half hour closer to where I was/am living. I started in the Film Studies Masters program in the Spring of 2004, after spending three semesters dabbling in undergraduate film classes and encountering a screw-up with my application. I defended my Master's in November 2005 and in the Fall of 2006, I will be attending somewhere for my PhD in Film Studies. I hope to one day teach film studies (not filmmaking) at the college level.
As for my personal life? I married Mac in February 2004 on our seven year anniversary. We have two cats and a beagle, who we adore very much. I have three academic papers published (two are for CHARiS and the other is my Master's Thesis). I just finished writing my Master's Thesis on the image of the nun in films from America and Great Britain 1945-present. I also participated in the 2005 New Voices in Irish Criticism Conference in Limerick Ireland.
Interests:
I love all types of film, from indie to Hollywood and beyond. I have one filmmaker I absolutely hate more than anything and that's Jean Luc Godard. I personally feel Francois Truffaut was much more influential in film history than Godard. My favorite film book is Kevin Murphy's A Year at the Movies and my absolute favorite movie of all time is Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.
I also enjoy reading and watching a random television show here and there. Traveling is another one of my passions and film festivals aide me in my quest for adventure.
Favorite Quote:
"Then there's this shrink, and a flower delivery guy, and feet being massaged, a horrible lack of anything Jedi or monkey related." ~ Macabre Stalker, Timecode
Top 5 of All Time (list is subject to change)
2. Lord of the Rings Trilogy
3. Star Wars Hexilogy
4. Moulin Rouge
5. American Beauty
1999 2000 2001 2002
2003 2004 2005 2006
Other Information: These are my published works: The Sublime, Peter Pan and Today's Society, and Half a Woman.
Personal Pages: www.pictureshowpundits.com
Personal Blogs: Rotten Tomatoes