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...
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David Ehrenstein
cellar47
Jan 1, 2007 4:14 pm
... 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 ...
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MG4273@...
nzkpzq
Jan 1, 2007 5:56 pm
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,...
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David Ehrenstein
cellar47
Jan 1, 2007 6:45 pm
... 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...
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Fred Camper
fredcamper
Jan 1, 2007 7:22 pm
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...
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jpcoursodon
Jan 1, 2007 11:46 pm
... books, films ... are just ... (say, camera ... critic values). ... the creation ... Mike, your "either/or" categories are an over-simplification, and, as...
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richardwaddel74
Jan 2, 2007 12:47 am
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...
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Brian Dauth
cinebklyn
Jan 2, 2007 1:08 am
... 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...
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ruygardnier
Jan 2, 2007 1:14 am
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...
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jpcoursodon
Jan 2, 2007 2:33 am
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...
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Brian Dauth
cinebklyn
Jan 2, 2007 2:38 am
... 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...
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scotchbrm
Jan 2, 2007 4:56 am
... impression ... narrative and ... EXCLUDING himself ... Well as a mere lurker, let me say that without the aesthetic sensibility of posters like Fred...
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Brian Charles Dauth
cinebklyn
Jan 2, 2007 4:58 am
... 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...
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peterhenne
Jan 2, 2007 5:24 am
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...
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LiLiPUT1@...
scil1973
Jan 2, 2007 10:00 am
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...
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Blake Lucas
lukethedealer12
Jan 2, 2007 10:38 am
... 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...
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ruygardnier
Jan 2, 2007 11:33 am
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...
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Brian Charles Dauth
cinebklyn
Jan 2, 2007 12:30 pm
... 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;...
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David Ehrenstein
cellar47
Jan 2, 2007 2:04 pm
... 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,...
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Rick
viajenuevo
Jan 2, 2007 3:32 pm
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...
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scotchbrm
Jan 2, 2007 5:27 pm
... 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...
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samfilms2003
Jan 2, 2007 5:56 pm
... 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...
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jess_l_amortell
Jan 2, 2007 6:13 pm
... Hollywood's coverage ... cutting of this ... Stevens probably ... straightforward ... from every angle ... these angles? Because he didn't think of them? ...
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David Ehrenstein
cellar47
Jan 2, 2007 7:15 pm
... 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...
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Brian Dauth
cinebklyn
Jan 2, 2007 9:07 pm
... 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...
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Brian Dauth
cinebklyn
Jan 2, 2007 9:22 pm
... discards them. And I thought some of the interpretations he discarded were not too bad. ... (characteristically) overshot because he didn't know what he...
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Ram Shankar
r_ram_shankar
Jan 3, 2007 5:28 am
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...
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Adrian Martin
apmartin90
Jan 3, 2007 10:05 am
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...
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Jonathan Takagi
jontakagi
Jan 3, 2007 10:17 am
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...
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C.P. Czarnecki
cp_czarnecki
Jan 3, 2007 11:14 am
Where exactly can one get a copy of DUELLE and NOROIT? Amazon.fr doesn't seem to have the DVD set....