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What do people think of this? Plus, Chancellor Katehi and Hitchcock’s The Birds

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, Alfred Hitchcock, Andrew Wyeth, Chancellor Katehi, Christina's World, Declaration of Indepedence, Georges Seurat, John Trumball, Lt. John Pike, Occupy Wall Street, Pepper Spray, The Birds, The Birds ending, UC-David pepper-spray on November 21, 2011 | 3 Comments »

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Phil Spector and John Lennon holding the careers of Skeesy (Scorsese) and DeNiro in the palms of their hands

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Be My Baby, John Lennon, Martin Scorsese, Mean Streets, Phil Spector, Psycho, Robert De Niro, Skeesy, The Ronettes on September 4, 2011 | 6 Comments »

This is the funniest thing I’ve seen since two shoes were thrown at Bush. “Who is this guy Skeesy?” is my new mantra. Phil’s John Lennon impression is also top-notch, as are his remarks on Brian Wilson. One of the most fascinating people of our time. The remarks on “edit films” and Hitchcock are a [...]

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The cover of Roxane Gay’s AYITI reminds me of the opening credits for PANIC ROOM

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Alfred Hitchcock, AYITI, David Fincher, North by Northwest, Panic Room, René Magritte, Roxane Gay, Saul Bass, Voice of Space on August 16, 2011 | 5 Comments »

Which is also to say—

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Announcing the Summer 2011 Issue of Requited

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Alexis MacKenzie, Alfred Hitchcock, Alyse Knorr, Anne Elizabeth Moore, Antonello da Messina, Ben Slotzky, Bowstring, Carl Baratta, Clarence Schmidt, Dalkey Archive Press, Epic of Gilgamesh, Eric Ellingson, Federico Fellin, Hyon Jung Kim, J. A. Tyler, Janet Leigh, Jess Upshaw Glass, Josh Collins, Kate Martin Rowe, Kristy Bowen, Mark Rappaport, Martha Rose Shulman, Michelangelo Antonioni, Molly Gaudry, Monica Gomery, Nicelle Davis, Philip Glass, Psycho, Requited Journal, Rich Ives, Shushan Avagyan, Simon A. Smith, Steve Katz, Suzanne Scanlon, Viktor Shklovsky on July 1, 2011 | 2 Comments »

The Summer 2011 issue of Requited is now online. It features: fiction by Josh Collins, Jess Upshaw Glass, Suzanne Scanlon, Ben Slotzky, and Simon A. Smith; poetry by Kristy Bowen, Nicelle Davis, Eric Ellingson, Molly Gaudry, Monica Gomery, Rich Ives, Alyse Knorr, Kate Martin Rowe, and J. A. Tyler; essays by Steve Katz, Mark Rappaport, [...]

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Brevity, Part 3: Long Takes Continued (well, they’re long)

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Abbas Kiarostami, Alfred Hitchcock, André Bazin, Andrei Tarkovsky, Arthur Penn, At Land, Avatar, Barbara Loden, Blow Up My Town, Blow-Out, Blowup, Bonnie and Clyde, Brian DePalma, Carbondale, Carol Reed, Chantal Akerman, Conjoined Dislocations, Delphine Seyrig, Elaine May, Film About a Woman Who..., Goodfellas, India Song, James Cameron, Je Tu Il Elle, Jeanne Dielman, John Cage, Kathryn Bigelow, Lev Kuleshov, Marguerite Duras, Martin Scorsese, Marva Nabili, Maya Deren, Median Shot Length, Meshes of the Afternoon, Michelangelo Antonioni, Mikey and Nickey, Nicolas Cage, Northeastern Pennsylvania, Orson Welles, Raging Bull, Robert Altman, Rope, Sally Potter, Samira Makhmalbaf, Scranton, Snake Eyes, Stalker, Strange Days, Taxi Driver, The Apple, The Hurt Locker, The Player, The Sealed Soil, The Tango Lesson, The Third Man, Touch of Evil, VALIE EXPORT, Wanda, Warren Beatty, Yvonne Rainer on January 10, 2010 | 8 Comments »

While writing my previous post, I grew aware that I wasn’t mentioning any women filmmakers. So I’d like to add something addressing that (because of course one can find numerous examples). And along the way, I’ll also try to say more in general about the power—and limitations—of the long take.

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Brevity, Part 2: Long Takes

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A Clockwork Orange, Aleksandr Sokurov, Alfred Hitchcock, André Bazin, Andrei Tarkovsky, Andy Warhol, Anthony Burgess, Béla Tarr, Bullets Over Broadway, cinema, Colossal Youth, Conversazioni in Sicilia, Criterion Collection, Danièle Huillet's, Edie Sedgwick, Elio Vittorini, Funny Games, Goodbye Dragon Inn, Hollis Frampton, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Jack Warden, Jean-Marie Straub, Jennifer Tilly, Joe Viterelli, John Cusack, Kuei-Mei Yang, Landscapes in the Mist, long take, Michael Haneke, Michael Snow, Michelangelo Antonioni, Miklós Jancsó, My Life as McDull, Nostalghia, Orson Welles, Pedro Costa, Peter Jackson, Red Psalm, Robert Altman, Rope, Russian Ark, Sean Astin, Shiang-chyi Chen, Sicilia!, Stalker, Stanley Kubrick, The Hole, The Lord of the Rings, The Mirror, The Passenger, The Player, The Shining, Theodoros Angelopoulos, Three Times, Toe Yuen, Touch of Evil, Trilogy The Weeping Meadow, Tsai Ming-Liang, Vinyl, Wavelength, Werckmeister Harmonies, Woody Allen on January 8, 2010 | 24 Comments »

Some of us have been discussing long takes in movies, and John mentioned that he’d like seeing a list of films that consist primarily of the beautiful things. So here is a start at such a list. (And here is another one, which like this list embeds many YouTube clips, such as the magnificent opening [...]

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Posts Tagged ‘Alfred Hitchcock’

What do people think of this? Plus, Chancellor Katehi and Hitchcock’s The Birds

Phil Spector and John Lennon holding the careers of Skeesy (Scorsese) and DeNiro in the palms of their hands

The cover of Roxane Gay’s AYITI reminds me of the opening credits for PANIC ROOM

Announcing the Summer 2011 Issue of Requited

Brevity, Part 3: Long Takes Continued (well, they’re long)

Brevity, Part 2: Long Takes

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