I don't know if Fred has addressed this already since I am behind on reading recent posts, but I think I can speak for Fred in noting that he doesn't consider...
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David Ehrenstein
cellar47
Sep 28, 2006 11:15 pm
... A great many others are of this opinion and include Mankiewicz in the put-down. The general feeling is that laike samll children films should be seen and...
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Jack Angstreich
jackangstreich
Sep 28, 2006 11:17 pm
I don't think Sontag can comfortably be embraced by auteurists. Sontag seems to me to instantiate the modernist, high-art approach of one of her mentors,...
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Michael E. Kerpan, Jr.
michaelkerpan
Sep 29, 2006 12:13 am
... Maybe Sontag simply went to the films she enjoyed most. I see nothing in the definition of "auteurist" that mandates anyone to like or dislike of any...
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Brian Charles Dauth
cinebklyn
Sep 29, 2006 4:05 am
... Fred wrote a superb post that makes an excellent case for Mankiewicz. It is # 3567. I often read it before a bout of Mankiewicz viewing to sharpen my ...
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Noel Vera
noelbotevera
Sep 29, 2006 8:16 am
An article on the film (re-released in Manila last week): http://movies.groups.yahoo.com/group/noelmoviereviews/message/601 Critic After Dark: a Review of...
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r_ram_shankar
Sep 29, 2006 9:20 am
... I feel that just "paintings that move" answer (someone pointed out that there is no camera movement in Eisenstein's, here the objects move, but I suppose...
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Fred Camper
fredcamper
Sep 29, 2006 2:16 pm
... No, you're not; Jack has represented my views quite well here. I'm neither a great supporter of nor particularly hostile to Sturges and Wilder, both of...
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Fred Camper
fredcamper
Sep 29, 2006 2:22 pm
... Most email programs will save "sent" messages and you should be able to repost from your "sent" folder, and those that don't can usually be set to save...
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Rick
viajenuevo
Sep 29, 2006 3:09 pm
... Interesting. There is a similar moment in the Wilder-scripted "Ninotchka" when Garbo, trying on a fancy Parisian hat, looks in the mirror and realizes she...
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Jonathan Rosenbaum
dreyertati
Sep 29, 2006 4:37 pm
... Sontag seems to me to instantiate the modernist, high-art approach of one of her mentors, Annette Michelson, but, even in that regard, she mainly ignored...
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Matt Teichman
bufordrat
Sep 29, 2006 6:23 pm
... I haven't seen _An American Tragedy_, so perhaps I'll refer to that scene from _The Scarlet Empress_ (since you mentioned it as an example of the same...
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Matt Teichman
bufordrat
Sep 29, 2006 6:26 pm
Well-put. The only thing more sinister than a snob is a half-assed snob. -Matt...
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Matt Teichman
bufordrat
Sep 29, 2006 6:31 pm
I intended the "half-assed snob" post only as a comment on the cultural phenomenon in general, not as a comment on Sontag (on whom I am in no position to...
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Matt Teichman
bufordrat
Sep 29, 2006 6:39 pm
... A few things, since this is one of my favorite Frampton films (although I've only had the pleasure of seeing it once): It is indeed a great example of a...
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samfilms2003
Sep 29, 2006 7:03 pm
... Well I would put up Brakhage's hand painted films in response; and if you felt them limiting point out there relation to his photographed films, which over...
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Dan Sallitt
sallitt1
Sep 29, 2006 7:25 pm
... I was referring to this idea that I've put forward a few times: that perhaps art has to be formally devious in order to defeat the mind's natural tendency...
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samfilms2003
Sep 29, 2006 10:42 pm
... It's a wonderful analogy, valid or not ! ... I'm not even sure I know my psychological terrain that well ;-) I'll try & get in touch with it (hope it...
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Dan Sallitt
sallitt1
Sep 30, 2006 12:34 am
... Well, I was just thinking about what would happen if context were removed, which is not too far-fetched. In other words, you get the pictorial qualities...
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David Ehrenstein
cellar47
Sep 30, 2006 12:55 am
... Well what you're describing is the way the film looks RIGHT NOW! ... Dietrich has emotions? I think not. Emotions are indicated as presumably belonging to...
40857
jpcoursodon
Sep 30, 2006 1:55 am
... Isn't it more like the locomotive of his train of images and sounds? After all, they have to be moved along somehow... It doesn't bother me at all to...
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scotchbrm
Sep 30, 2006 4:33 pm
... and ... Dan, this is intriguing, beautifully said, rings true. Experience itself is probably pre-narrative – it grabs our senses, then the emotions,...
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C.P. Czarnecki
cp_czarnecki
Sep 30, 2006 4:40 pm
What has interested me for a while now is to what extent Martin Scorsese used the Schrader and Zimmerman scripts for TAXI DRIVER and THE KING OF COMEDY. On...
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Matt Teichman
bufordrat
Sep 30, 2006 5:07 pm
... I'm still unclear as to what you have in mind re: removing the narrative context. Do you mean something like screening only the wedding scene? So that a...
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david hare
flixyflox
Sep 30, 2006 5:12 pm
... Given the entire wedding sequence which begins with a track from the Empress and is seemingly entirely illuminated by thousands of candles Sternberg's...
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r_ram_shankar
Oct 1, 2006 2:03 am
... The point about me raising an objection does not exist at the moment (as I have not seen any of what you have said as of now and unfortunately not possibly...
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David Ehrenstein
cellar47
Oct 1, 2006 2:08 am
I get the impression that on films he takes no script credit for the dialogue is by and large unaltered -- his chief contribution being interpretation. Of...
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Marc Raymond
mraymond_1918
Oct 1, 2006 4:01 am
In the case of TAXI DRIVER, much has been written about the two auteurs of the film (or four, according to Jonathan Rosenbaum, who includes De Niro and ...
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Marc Raymond
mraymond_1918
Oct 1, 2006 4:10 am
Sorry, I sent the first response too early. To continue... As for THE KING OF COMEDY, there is much less written, no doubt becasue of the film's lower profile,...
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C.P. Czarnecki
cp_czarnecki
Oct 1, 2006 10:21 am
... I would say TAXI DRIVER has much more in common with Scorsese's oeuvre than with Schrader's. Schrader always likes to tell his Bresson story, where he met...
