... It's a very good article, with a lot of insights. I'm especially interested in your idea (via Zanuck) that Ford's shots somehow suggest a comprehensive...
... Have you seen THE FURY, which is in the same vein as CARRIE? Or CARLITO'S WAY (my favorite De Palma film)? Which films of his are turkeys to you -...
... Responding to Peter: In most of my early post-discover-of-avant-garde-film viewing experiences, I paid only marginal attention to the plot. Nor was I being...
I'm no Brecht expert either, and like Tag I've never seen a play directed by him or his successors. I have seen a number of American productions, decades ago,...
... male ... for ... I'm a De Palma fan, on the whole. I think that he's probably a more uneven director within individual films than between them – nearly ...
Fred, that's a funny story about Screen. You seem to have had a lot of interesting experiences with those folks. To answer your question, some of the French...
... But there are equivalents. For example, the flags and uniforms and formalities work exactly the same way (if one concedes their operative presence). A...
... But more often than not, we do NOT notice these clues and body langauge, or else we do so hurriedly and get into big trouble. ... Now, were we discussing...
Boy, my post is full of errors. Don't post late at night, folks, it just doesn't pay. Zach, HOME MOVIES is out on DVD now, a cheapie release but it's pretty...
Well, I guess I haven't seen that many. I haven't seen the ones you mention. I don't think I have seen any of his "turkeys", because I'm trying to see the ones...
A few more references mentioned in the commentary: *The opening title card was inspired by The Red Shoes. *The opening sequence was influenced by The...
Dan Sallitt wrote ... Precisely. I urge you to watch early 30s Ford with this in mind, particularly when close shots of people are being exchanged. e.g., AIR...
... I'm a big fan, I must say. I'm actually in the middle of conducting a career interview with him (we covered everything from his acting jobs up to "Waking ...
... Interesting. I'd certainly go as far as saying that realism is a relative concept: that there's no such thing as an absolute standard of realism in any ...
Tag, you've been mentioning how you think many of our commonly used terms "have no meaning," starting with categories like "experimental." While I can see...
I think getting rid of these terms would do us all a world of good. Even academia might redeem itself! Alchemy had its defendors in its day, and witch burning...
... Okay, let me see if I follow you. Major premise: Presently, genre and other categorical terms are considered by some to be useful in discussing film...
Anyone in NYC tomorrow (Sunday) at 7 pm is strongly encouraged by me to see Kirghiz director Tolomush Okeev's excellent THE FIERCE ONE at Anthology. It's...
If Gigli get some sort of release here (I'll not be surprised if it come straight to video), I'll probably seeing it. I usually like Brest's film (with the...
Jaime, I've seen Home Movies (even wrote a not specially well-written article on it), like it a good deal. I think it's very important work to understand De ...
Sorry, you don't follow me. My fault. I do not feel that certain terms are useful. I feel they do a great deal of harm and are actually a way of avoiding...
There's so much interesting things to answer, so many actually I have no time to do it. So I'll try to make some general remarks on the subject. This a theme...
All, Tag presented an earlier version of his position on genre in an article called "Shootout at the Genre Corral," published in The Film Genre Reader,...
... So can you give me a short concise definition of "realism" à la Auerbach, one which I can repeat the people on the street which they'll all understand...
... that, ... characters ... think ... Yes? Yes, absolutely. I do think intuitive perception comes first (we notice something, and then notice that we've...
I agree. But add: (1) cuts need to be experienced physically, not just intellectually. (2) "I may or may not be thinking about his editing strategies": In most...
... Do you mean this literally? He would have heard it in the (possibly unlikely) event that he'd read, say, V.F. Perkins' pre-'65 review of HATARI! (later...
I buy all this completely. Part of my point was that the physical experience has to precede the intellectual one. Can I add that while we can't do without...
... So we can date "genre" to the time of HATARI in both languages. Now: how far back can we date it in either language? As applied to movies. ... I'm not...
... I don't see why it's necessarily reductive. Music is not reductive, even though it based entirely on physcial sensation and intellectual analysis of...
