... but also because it is being undermined by everyone who can press play on a DVD player and who roam the internet hailing hacks like George Lucas, Quentin...
... linked ... therefore ... milieux ... Just a footnote: The theory of "decor" in Minnelli was elaborated first by Jean Douchet in a series of articles in...
... me ... of ... conflict is ... shocked ... one ... laugh, ... freedom to ... characters' ... for ... actually ... see it. ... This reminds me of the time I...
... Two ... MGM ... sequences ... The reasons why MGM restores footage from some films but not from others remain a mystery to me. BRIGADOON and THE BANDWAGON...
... Two ... MGM ... sequences ... David Raksin's score for Two Weeks has been released on CD and contains cues that are not heard in the released film. ... ...
If auteurism makes sense it has to on some level acknowledge that film is a collaborative medium. There are simply too many decisions to be made for the...
Teaching, as most of you know, is an education. In my part of the world, due to the limited availability of Spanish translations of traditional film...
... This post by John M. is not only very sensible and historically aware, but also a beginning at a way of establishing lines of communication among the ...
... Is this true? POTEMKIN still places in the Sight and Sound top 10 regularly, and MANN does not. Certainly auteurist writing has made more of Murnau's...
... I remember in junior high I had an English teacher, in his thirties, who strained to talk what he thought was contemporary "jive" in order to "reach" us,...
... Wellmany of us did, but amidst the din of cultural/ideological battle subtleties were hard to hear. After all, Kael wans't objecting to Sarris' liking for...
... I like NORTH TO ALASKA! But I'd guess that Kael praised it by calling it "enjoyable nonsense" or "likable trash" or some other such phrase. I think this...
... And here we get to the heart of the matter. Kael treats DePalma like art - and prefers him to his acknowledgedmaster, Alfred Hitchcock. One could go on for...
... It would be absolutely wrong to say Bresson hated theatre. How could he? He was a man of broad and deep culture. My friend who spent hours in his study...
... That's because Kael never had any overall view of the cinema, save for what appealed to her on a day-to-day basis. She claimed to be able to recognize...
... day. Not to me, David--I love NORTH TO ALASKA. My favorite comedy Western ever. It's at once raucous and sophisticated--and full of charm. And I object...
... Hey, don't et me wrong -- I like lots of hathaway. And Ilove Capucine. But "North to Alakska" didn't impress me all that much. It's not"Hatari!" -- which ...
... of ... way ... was ... of ... I'll reply to all of this together, as quickly as I can, if it's OK. First, to Bill--thanks for acknowledging me. I do...
... film ... Good point. I just read an interview with Peter Jackson and his wife Fran Walsh. Walsh mentioned that Peter seemed happier shooting KING KONG...
Well I don't see the point of sending Murnau up against Eisenstein or vice versa. It's not like Murnau was making the prototype of "Gerry" ;-) In fact...
Here's a little postscript about the Seven Men From Now restoration & preservation. No changes, as I said, though Budd Boetticher would love to have had the...
... I’ll admit I’ve seen better days, but I was born in the 60s and was a teenager in the 70s. I guess I will have to increase the spa sessions to twice a...
... I don't think one can say with precision that dialogue and performance were part of the concept of mise-en-scene in 1958 (four years after Truffaut's "A...
... the most ... organization. ... Are you sure about this, Dan? I have never had that impression. "Mise-en-scene" (to put in the scene, as I understand it)...
... Don't know if I have a lot to add. I think that the kind of art appreciation that we talk about here is something we develop as adults, mostly. Way...
One of the points of the "politique des auteurs" that apparently didn't translate well into its english form (well, not exactly english, but frenglish would be...
... part, with exceptions, the term was used to describe visual organization. When I read the Rohmer piece I feel he is pressing at a seam (Kevin John will let...
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