... slap ... Not ... The most obvious psatial quality of that doorbell shot is size. If you're seeing it in a theatre, it's the size of a locomotive. A shot ...
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iangjohnston
Jun 2, 2005 6:15 pm
... largely of the ... heads. The sort of ... Encounter Group. ... not like this ... Couldn't find any ... with what is ... All I can say is that the...
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David Ehrenstein
cellar47
Jun 2, 2005 6:41 pm
... Don't forget the falling keys in "After Hours." And don't forget that all of this began with Christian Metz's declaraction that a shot of gun means at the ...
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Peter Henne
peterhenne
Jun 2, 2005 9:11 pm
Sam: I don't think "fluidity"; need imply smooth narrative. This word is often applied to certain abstract paintings, e.g. Joan Mitchell's. So why not the...
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jpcoursodon
Jun 2, 2005 10:22 pm
... Just recite an occasional sonnet And your lap'll have "honey" upon it. When your baby is pleading for pleasure Let her sample your "Measure for Measure." ...
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jpcoursodon
Jun 2, 2005 10:52 pm
... to ... space. ... example - ... Player. I think I had tried to respond to both Dan and Bill in message # 27706 -- which, unlike the following one, was not...
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jpcoursodon
Jun 2, 2005 10:58 pm
... Which is why I would suggest (pardon my French pedantry) that "VOICI" should be translated as "HERE IS" rather than "HERE" (which means something...
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jpcoursodon
Jun 2, 2005 11:07 pm
I can't help cheering Mike's superb analysis of this very great film. And Bill was deploring recently that we never discuss form on a_film_by! JPC...
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hotlove666
Jun 3, 2005 1:09 am
There are a couple of ways to look at the doorbell shot spatially. One is, where in space IS the doorbell - eg the trick played on the spectator near the end...
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nzkpzq
Jun 3, 2005 2:15 am
Thanks JPC, for the kind words. The post did not say so, but this is my all-time favorite Welles movie - and they are all really remarkable. Loved seeing it in...
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Adrian Martin
apmartin90
Jun 3, 2005 5:38 am
In case no bibliophile with groaning shelves has answered this yet, let me reach into the 'F' (not for Fake) section of my periodicals to declare conclusively:...
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LiLiPUT1@...
scil1973
Jun 3, 2005 7:58 am
... If it's the same one that appeared in Marcia Landy's anthology on melodrama, I think it's terrible. Kevin John [Non-text portions of this message have been...
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hotlove666
Jun 3, 2005 8:15 am
... Eustache, ... Are there any other kind? Thanks, Adrian - I have always been proud of that line, which also slyly refers to Pacscal's own lunar pallor, and ...
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MG4273@...
nzkpzq
Jun 4, 2005 2:42 pm
"My Date With the President's Daughter" (Alex Zamm, 1998) is a comedy feature made for TV - the US Cable TV "Disney Channel". This produces a mountain of ...
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thebradstevens
Jun 4, 2005 5:15 pm
The Disney Channel has also produced some interesting films by Maggie Greenwald and Susan Seidelman....
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thebradstevens
Jun 4, 2005 5:19 pm
While reading THE GUARDIAN's review of Jung Chang's MAO: THE UNKNOWN STORY, I notced that the book's co-author was one Jon Halliday. In the review, Halliday is...
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MG4273@...
nzkpzq
Jun 4, 2005 7:38 pm
In a message dated 05-06-04 13:25:19 EDT, Brad Stevens writes: << The Disney Channel has also produced some interesting films by Maggie Greenwald and Susan...
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peckinpah20012000
peckinpah200...
Jun 4, 2005 8:24 pm
... It is. But Halliday is also an historian who has collaborated with Bruce Cummings on alternative readings of the Korean war. He also wrote the old BFI...
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hotlove666
Jun 4, 2005 9:32 pm
This is the only Panther movie I missed - in fact, I wasn't even aware I'd missed it. I was out of the country a lot the year it played. It's the last one made...
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David Ehrenstein
cellar47
Jun 4, 2005 10:03 pm
... Actually he didn't. What you're talking about here relatest to Edwards not only trying to minimize the impact of being forced to work with Sellers'...
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Jonathan Rosenbaum
dreyertati
Jun 4, 2005 10:47 pm
Halliday is also an historian who has collaborated with ... EMPIRICISM ... Apparently another factor--according to Paul Willemen--was Pasolini saying something...
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David Ehrenstein
cellar47
Jun 4, 2005 11:11 pm
... Pasolini spoke in defense of the police who were sent to put down May 68 demonstrators. Why? If you know Pasolini it was a typical gesture of solidarity...
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jpcoursodon
Jun 4, 2005 11:50 pm
... Anyway, there's a lot of Antonioni creeping in ... Dream of an intoxicated auteurist: Antonioni directs a Clouseau episode and in exchange Edwards directs...
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David Ehrenstein
cellar47
Jun 5, 2005 12:46 am
... I can easily imagine a Blake Edwards version of "Blow-Up." __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail Mobile Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Check email on...
27746
jpcoursodon
Jun 5, 2005 1:29 am
... such. JPC...
27747
David Ehrenstein
cellar47
Jun 5, 2005 1:55 am
... Well Julie Andrews does have a Jeanne Moreau side. Monica Vitti might be a stretch. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail...
27748
hotlove666
Jun 5, 2005 2:31 am
... Edwards has been thinking in his retirement about a female Clouseau (just hinted at in the last scene of Son, when the Daughter appears at the funeral and...
27749
Dan Sallitt
sallitt1
Jun 5, 2005 3:09 am
... I just revisited the Statement of Purpose and was relieved that a search for the word "visual" returned no matches. The recurring phrase is "film as art."...
27750
Dan Sallitt
sallitt1
Jun 5, 2005 3:13 am
... At the risk of sounding like a provocateur, WHO'S THAT KNOCKING AT MY DOOR is still the only Scorsese work that I would call an outright good film. - Dan...
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Matt Teichman
bufordrat
Jun 5, 2005 3:20 am
... Which Bazin text do you have in mind here? -Matt...
