In light of this gleeful putdown he should consider
getting a pre-emptive restraining order from Woody Allen.
________________________________________________________________________________\
____
Building a website is a piece of cake. Yahoo! Small Business gives you all the
tools to get online. http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/webhosting
Reads him like the telephone directory! http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/04/opinion/04jrosenbaum.html In light of this gleeful putdown he should consider getting...
... As big a fan as I am of Jonathan's, I'm rather perturbed by the following ... Um, says who, exactly? Bergman's work is actually quite widely available on ...
... In Britain, it's easiest to list the titles that AREN'T available, which I think are currently: It Rains On Our Love A Ship To India Brink of Life The...
Almost every statement in this rather shallow article could be challenged on the ground of irrelevance, biased vision,unfairness, questionable reasoning or...
... JP, have you read the article? It's true that I praise Bergman as an entertainer and compare him to George Cukor (which to me is no insult), but I also...
... wrote: The article is meant to stir the pot, ... And Boy Howdy does it ever! Woody's therapists are going to be working overtime becuase of your piece. ...
... Obviously I did. I couldn't have written all the nasty things I wrote about it if I hadn't! It's true that I praise Bergman as an ... both ... that ... ...
Re: Rosenbaum Disses Bergman in the NYT ... those who think movies ... Well, I guess if you can ignore sizable chunks of my argument in order to settle on just...
... That "even though" makes it sound as if you still have a point, but the fact is that Bresson and Dreyer *combined* didn't direct as many features as ...
... relevance, ... preoccupied, for ... generous ones ... Bergman ... than one. ... Thanks for the lengthy post, Bilge. Most of your points seem perfectly ...
... And what about Bresson? Recent Bresson retorspectives have proven surprisingly popular -- esepcially after years and years of Bergman-worshipping critics...
... I have no problems with that. I like Bresson a great deal, and couldn't be happier that his work is now more popular and available. This is why I do not...
I thought Bilge was arguing that Wong is indeed "fashionable". I also think that Godard is enormously popular with audiences that are commonly construed as...
I thought Tarkovsky said Bresson was his favorite filmmaker; am I mistaken? Jack Angstreich ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
... I'm not sure Tarkovsky would have wanted to choose between them, or to worry much about ranking them. I remember reading somewhere that Tarkovsky said that...
I thought Robin Wood's book on Bergman was largely an argument (of a Leavisite kind) for Bergman's relevance; I understand that Wood has since changed his mind...
You have a point, j-p. But Jonathan's real taregt here isn't Bergman but Woody Allen and the NYT readers who regard Woody as a cultural arbiter. ... ...
This article says that "fluid storytelling" makes an artist "less important". Belief that storytelling is bad is widespread. But it is not consistent with a...
... It's a bit of leap to go from my claim that Bergman's fluid storytelling entailed a reluctance to challenge conventional filmgoing habits to the argument...
I'm a huge admirer of Rosenbaum's "Essential Cinema", which I've praised before in a_film_by. Mr. Rosenbaum's post about what he meant to say about Bergman...
"Mr. Bergman simply used film (and later, video) to translate shadow- plays staged in his mind — relatively private psychodramas about his own relationships...
... No. It was Manoel de Oliviera who said the motion picture camera was a device created in order to record great works of theater. I ... You haven't seen...
... "All films are about the theatre, there is no other subject." Jacques Rivette, Cahiers du Cinema, 1968. But of course, as David suggests, Rivette said this...
... Jacques ... of ... Rivette was obviously being deliberately provocative when he made that statement. But its implications are fascinating. Far from ...
... suggests, ... 1 ... one ... that ... SCENES ... the ... Terrific observation, Brad, which I hope was not overlooked in the heat of a wide-ranging...
... That may be, but I'm pretty sure that Rivette said theatre was the true subject of cinema (which is not at all the same thing as saying that the camera is...
Offline 
Send Email
