... I agree with you that the value of non-story elements in movies does not depend on how they elucidate the story. But, as regards your analogy, I don't...
... Grigori Kozintsev agreed. In his "Tragedy of Space", je discussed at length the differencs between presenting Shakespeare on stage and on film. He felt...
... The dolly in on the TV set in "All That Heaven ... And sometimes it isn't. ... Which is my point. For you the narrative is a "second-class citizen" of art....
... the ... character ... But Brando's performance makes perfect sense in terms of the structure that the film ended up having (which may or may not be the ...
... I am very suspicious of this kind of generalization in the arts, and this specific statement is not true of some of the very greatest theater work I've...
Such as artfully placed anachronisms. Paradjanov would place a single, relatively small emblem of the modern world in his period films, such as an umbrella in...
... It's also fairly basic post-modernism. See Derek Jarman's "Edward II" and Tom Kalin's "Swoon." __________________________________________________ Do You...
Getting back to Brad's elegant dispatch of post-modernism in post 35741, the very last thing you could say about Paradjanov's and Jarman's anachronisms is that...
... And Demy's"Peau D'Ane" where Delphine Seyrig's Fairy Godmother arives by helicopter. Just got ahold of a DVD of Demy's "Lady Oscar" -- which I haven't seen...
... The continuing "dialogue de sourds" between ... I don't see any of my exchanges as escalating, I was trying to ask Brian bigger questions on how he views...
... I think there's a good case to be made for relegating narrative (or at least "story," as opposed to "plot") to this status. A story can be useful in...
... to ... I ... keep ... This ... ultimately I ... But you will agree that Brian's hatred of Night Moves is so intense that he's not likely to "consider" your...
... Narrative is an artform (or artistic practice) without its own medium or material. From my POV this is basically the crux of (e.g.) Fred's distanciation...
... Well, I get that. But for my part, I'm not annoyed by the attitudes you've expressed but rather by the film itself, which I just don't think supports the...
... But such details,lefft free-floating and "Unencumbered" by narrative are. . .meaningless. "Sans Soleil" is a "recit" as is "Man With a Movie Camera" and...
... BALDERDASH! It has MANY mediums and MANY kinds of material. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail...
... Media essentialism has been a productive strategy but it's superstition to make it more than that. (Not accusing anyone here of that superstition, but...
... But none "its own." I'm not knocking narrative as an entity or narratives in general, David--you may recall my own lengthy debates with Fred and others on...
... Hold on. It should be clear that I wasn't using "narrative" to mean something as general as "principle of organization," though the term certainly has been...
... I don't think it's just a "productive strategy." At some level it has to be descriptively accurate--e.g. sculptures can't have long paragraphs, music...
After Harry leaves his girlfriend (Teri Garr), he is on a ?subway train / bus that has (IMO) an unusually small window (or reflection, or whatever) framing his...
... Sometime the filmmaker just doesn't have the money to create historically correct production design, and gleefully fashions his film accordingly--witness...
That seems to involve the constraints of the media rather than essentialism. The sort of thing I'm thinking of is taking the idea that because the standard...
Also available are Ishmael Bernal's "Relasyon" (An Affair, 1982; one of his best), Lino Brocka's "Macho Dancer" (1988; not one of his best--but second-best ...
