Mike, Thanks for your post, but I wasn't intending that you should feel the need to post a retraction or apology. I did say that I didn't quite recognize my...
... True Fred, but what kicked this latest imbroglio off were your remarks about Walsh that gave no attention to his film's narratives in discussing what ...
The artistic value of plot is a burningly controversial issue. Most thinkers gravitate to one of two positions, about plot in books, films and comics: A) Plot,...
... There's also a position c) which doesn't give special privilege either to the existence of narrative OR the lack of same. This is where you'll find me most...
Thanks for a helpful attempt to clarify things, Mike. I'll take position "d," since David already claimed c for himself. My position is that the thing that...
... books, films ... are just ... (say, camera ... critic values). ... the creation ... Mike, your "either/or" categories are an over-simplification, and, as...
I noticed that Xploited Cinema website have some re-mastered Glauber Rocha titles for sale. I was wonders if anyone out there could confirm the Aspect Ratios...
... psychoanalysis of that, please!), re-watched a film that completely 'bowled me over' emotionally as a young cinephile: Ingmar Bergman's A PASSION aka THE...
Hi, Richard Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol (Black God, White Devil) is definitely 1:1,37, i.e., fullscreen. If the remasters you mention are from the brazilian...
It might be that 30 years from now you'll feel the same about the post-CRIES AND WHISPERS period as you feel about the pre-period now. Not necessarily a...
... classical style, his cutting and camera placement can't be faulted. And it's not a recruiting poster. Which is extraordinary in and of itself. I also think...
... impression ... narrative and ... EXCLUDING himself ... Well as a mere lurker, let me say that without the aesthetic sensibility of posters like Fred...
... post-CRIES AND WHISPERS period as you feel about the pre-period now. I would not be a bit surprised. ... everything else while the films in question have...
I agree with what Ruy says. I seem to remember the film was projected in 1.85:1 when I saw it at UCLA about 8 years ago, but the DVD is in Academy ratio and...
Homegirls - First off, happy new year to those for whom it is a new year. Second, cutting in the camera vs. camera/protection. Which was most common in the...
... most common in ... and still ... Well, first, it's nice to be a homegirl, Kevin. And Happy New Year to you too. I think you have this right above and in...
The Rocha family is working very hard in putting out great DVD editions of his entire oeuvre. Next in release are O DRAGÃO DA MALDADE CONTRA O SANTO GUERREIRO...
... art forms, poetry is purer than fiction, and music is the purest of all the arts. But what does it mean to be pure? Is purer art better art? ... of life;...
... He has very different ... And such ideas beame even more pronouned in "Der Leone Have Sept Cabecas" and "Severed Heads" (the first with Jean-Pierre Leaud,...
Re: Plot Wars - and Peace ... And above all dignity, always dignity. I am so glad that I did not have to endure such a "great" high school teacher. He reminds...
... Yes, of course. The point is that art is separate from life and can be recognized as such. ... So would I! ... abstract is descriptive. To refer to it as...
... Multiple CAMERAS is NOT the norm. Coverage typically denotes multiple angles - master, closer shots - the 2 shots and singles as Bordwell says (and now the...
... Hollywood's coverage ... cutting of this ... Stevens probably ... straightforward ... from every angle ... these angles? Because he didn't think of them? ...
... Naturally it's Bordwell who doesn't know what he's doing. I recall a CdC interview with Jerry Lewis where he traced his interest in becoming a filmmaker...
... as such. For me, art is not separate from life -- I come from a pragmatic/Deweyan position on this issue. ... Since it is not uncommon for people to...
... discards them. And I thought some of the interpretations he discarded were not too bad. ... (characteristically) overshot because he didn't know what he...
Friends, i am at Tokyo for my software job. here for work but practically clueless regarding anything else. any pointers on where to go buy manga /mizoguchi...
I just got my DVD set of Rivette's DUELLE and NORIOT in the mail. As several esteemed members of AFB have been telling us for three decades: these films are...
When he talked about the film a few years back, besides speaking about the Celtic mythological influences, Rivette mentioned that DUELLE was influenced by kung...
