... I could not help but be reminded of the infamous statement by Karlheinz Stockhausen reported in the Sept 19 '01 _NYT_. He said, What happened there...
I'm picking up one small point out of Jaime's fascinating and passionate post, but, as the man says, it's late. ... For me, there is real satisfaction in...
After the early screening of Orson Welles' THE TRIAL on September 22nd, at the Makor Center, I will be discussing the film with the audience. Please attend if...
... it, ... I think clearly there was an established canon among what were considered serious film critics (who, essentially were liberal humanists, both...
... Good point; I guess I was mainly thinking of "Dirty Harry" (which I like quite a bit.) But Siegel's purported comment, "I can't imagine what my ...
... I think the distinction is that in Sunrise, it's a personal relationship tht had been damaged and is relying on the emotional ties of the two individuals...
... like ... what my ... personal politics ... Dirty Harry was extremely controverial in the wonderfully-polarized Nixon years. I know Siegel took great...
... <j_christley@y...> wrote: I might say, for instance, that a lot of films ... to ... I do think it's self-evident that we can comprehend a lot about an ...
... I won't get into the Schindler's List question right now, but I'll say for the record that I think A.I. is a masterpiece, and that looking at a bunch of...
David wrote: "But Duchamp proved that anything can be art." I think Duchamp proved that anything someone chooses to present as art is art, something that could...
Can't say I ... I didn't think THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS was a 'bad' film -- it wound up on my best-of-the-year list -- but I'm still trying to analyse my intensely...
... after ... in ... 1952 ... contents ... The Dec. 1959 Cahiers contains interesting articles in which Louis Marcorelles and Claude Gauteur comment on the...
Jake T. Wilson said, I didn't think THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS was a 'bad' film -- it wound up on my best-of-the-year list -- but I'm still trying to analyse my ...
Dan wrote (981): "...one who works primarily with, through, and about cinema conventions and the relative nature of realism. In some ways I think he's more...
... I just accidentally deleted a response that I had written and don't have time to write it all out again, but the gist of it was this: I can see the Kubrick...
Zach Cambell wrote: I can see the Kubrick connection you mention (I hadn't thought about it in terms of Anderson's work before, so it's interesting), but I...
To Dan, the musical analogy is one I have used myself: that film form functions a bit the way music does. But though I like a lot of popular music, and have...
... Well, you could think of it the other way around, as a children's book (maybe a teen-age child's book) invaded by trauma. Anderson leads with the fable,...
... I'd certainly give it one "creepy" at least. I rejected the request to sloppily embrace a character as dubious, in some respects, as Royal (the admittedly...
... Yeah, I think so. It's really hard to write something good about a film one dislikes - or, rather, you never really know whether you've written anything...
... That kind of ending is very Hawksian, actually - it's just that in RED RIVER he wandered into different areas of moral conflict than usual. There was some...
... No, I think you're right! I don't remember the shot in question, but in general I think that Warhol is intentionally neglectful of the beauty of the...
... I chose pop music, not because of its complexity, but because many pop music fans require a meaningful interaction between lyrics and music, and I don't,...
... Yes, but many opera fans, and presumably many of the original Bach Cantata hearers, do and did require a meaningful interaction between lyrics and music,...
... I feel as if the presentation of the moral issues in RED RIVER is full of cracks and fissures, to use the quaint lit-crit phrase. Brennan helps Dunson gun...
... Right on. Which is why I have trouble trying to grasp what everyone means by "experimental film" as opposed to what the great filmmakers do in the outer...
... I'm not sure if I'm following this discussion accurately but I'd like to point out that Warhol's "intentionally neglectful" approach to cinematography (I...
