just went up—well, Part One did, in which Matt Rowan asks me questions about my first book (Amazing Adult Fantasy), G.I. Joe, geek culture, Ota Benga, Ayn Rand, George Orwell, and bad writing habits; we also discuss Curtis White, Theodor Adorno, Viktor Shklovsky, and ninjas, among other things. [Update: Part Two, which focuses more on [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Agnès Varda’
What’s So New about New Wave?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Agnès Varda, Blondie, Caroline Coon, Devo, Duran Duran, François Truffaut, garage rock, Gary Numan, glam, Jacques Rivette, Jean Luc Godard, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Malcolm McLaren, Minimalism, Mod, New New Wave, New Wave Coffee, Post-Punk Revival, power pop, punk, Sex Pistols, synthrock, Talking Heads, Television, The B-52's, The Boomtown Rats, The Human League, The Nouvelle Vague, The Only Ones, The Pretenders, The Stranglers on December 12, 2010 | 4 Comments »
I’ve outlined some of the following in my Looking at Movements series of posts (more of which are forthcoming), but here I want to examine the New Wave tradition exclusively, and from a different direction. I’m increasingly fascinated by how that simple two-word term has been used over the past 50 years to describe [...]
In Memory of William Lubtchansky
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Agnès Varda, Bulle Ogier, Claude Lanzmann, Danièlle Huillet, Dziga Vertov Group, François Truffaut, Jacques Rivette, Jean Luc Godard, Jean-Marie Straub, Juliet Berto, Philippe Garrel, William Lubtchansky on May 8, 2010 | 5 Comments »
26 October 1937 – 4 May 2010. William Lubtchansky was one of the greatest cinematographers of our time, and of any time. He shot films for Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Rivette, Agnès Varda, Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub, François Truffaut, Claude Lanzmann, Philippe Garrel, and many others. Among his many accomplishments was helping to “romanticize” the [...]
Some Thoughts on Agnès Varda’s “Vagabond”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Agnès Varda, Citizen Kane, Cléo from 5 to 7, formalism, French New Wave, Left Bank, Nouvelle Vague, Orson Welles, realism, Rive Gauche, Sandrine Bonnaire, Sans toi ni loit, The Beaches of Agnes, The Gleaners and I, Vagabond on February 5, 2010 | 10 Comments »
Vagabond (Sans toi ni loit), is a 1985 film by the Belgian director Agnès Varda. Varda was part of the French New Wave (with Godard, Truffaut, Rohmer, Chabrol, and Rivette), although her first film predates that movement; some critics regard her as belonging more specifically to the simultaneous Rive Gauche (Left Bank) movement (alongside Alain [...]
My Favorite New Movies of 2009
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Agnès Varda, Andrzej Wajda, Antichrist, Bill Murray, Bradley Beesley, Bright Star, Bruno Delbonnel, Chaos Reigns, Chris Marker, Christian Petzold, Christmas on Mars, Christoph Waltz, David Mamet, David Yates, Fanny Brawne, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Frank Miller, George Salisbury, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Hayao Miyazaki, Il Divo, Inglourious Basterds, J.J. Abrams, Jane Campion, Jerichow, John Keats, Katyń, Lars von Trier, Les Plages d’Agnès, Mike Stoklasa, Nicolas Roeg, Nightwatching, Oren Peli, Paolo Sorrentino, Paranormal Activity, Peter Greenaway, Ponyo, Puffball, Quentin Tarantino, Redbelt, Rembrandt, Richard Kelly, Ricky Jay, Rita Tushingham, sexism, Star Trek, Star Wars: The Phantom Menace Review, The Beaches of Agnes, The Box, The Spirit, torture porn, Tsai Ming-Liang, Visage (Face), Watchmen, Wayne Coyne, Wes Anderson, Whatever Works, Woody Allen, Zack Snyder on December 31, 2009 | 21 Comments »
[Update: 2010 is here] Here are my favorite new movies of 2009, like you care. I’m drawing from the films I saw in the theater this year, some of which were “officially” released a year or two ago. But they’re all new. …So, Mr. Cranky, what did you like?
Invisible cinema: 7 p., cuis., s. de b.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Agnès Varda, essay, film, house, invisible cinema, Luca Dipierro, naked body on November 12, 2009 | 6 Comments »
7 p., cuis., s. de b. … a saisir Agnès Varda directed this short in 1984. Sept pieces, cuisine, salle de bains …a saisir (Seven Rooms, Kitchen, Bathroom …a Bargain) is a film about a house. It’s an essay, in the erratic sense of the word, about time and space. The camera moves in the rooms [...]
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