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A D & Jeremy Talk about Movies: The Tree of Life

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A D & Jeremy Talk about Movies, A D Jameson, Andrei Tarkovsky, Andrew O'Hehir, Andy Goldsworthy, Barry Lyndon, Brad Pitt, Cannes, continuity editing, Culloden, Curtis White, Days of Heaven, dinosaurs, Douglas Trumbull, Ennio Morricone, George Lucas, Grimlock, Gummo, Haskell Wexler, Henry James, Jack Fisk, Jeremy M. Davies, Jessica Chastain, Lars von Trier, L’Eclisse, Leo Kottke, Linda Manz, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Martin Heidegger, Michael Bay, Michael Haneke, Miramax, Néstor Almendros, Ordet, Paul Kincaid, Pearl Harbor, Pocahontas, Raúl Ruiz, Samuel R. Delany, Saving Private Ryan, Sean Penn, Shakespeare in Love, Solaris, Stalker, Terrence Malick, The Lord of the Rings, The Mirror, The New World, The Queen, The Thin Red Line, The Tree of Life, The Wings of the Dove, Transformers, Werner Herzog, Winstanley, Yog-Sothoth on June 27, 2011 | 33 Comments »

[By now it was late. The three stars were dimpling the sky. The baby raccoon was crying for its milk (I’d taken in an orphan the week before). But Jeremy and I weren’t finished yet discussing the movies we’d just watched.] A D: You had a rather serious reaction to this one, Jeremy. Were you [...]

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It’s Not Time to DeListify

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Andrei Tarkovsky, Lukas Moodysson, Stanley Kubrick on December 16, 2010 | 24 Comments »

Andrei Tarkovsky’s Top Ten List : Le Journal d’un curé de campagne – Bresson, 1951 Winter Light – Bergman, 1962 Nazarin – Luis Bunel, 1959 Wild Strawberries – Bergman, 1957 City Lights – Charlie Chaplin, 1931 Ugetsu Monogatari – Mizoguchi, 1953 Seven Samurai – Kurosawa, 1954 Persona – Bergman, 1966 Mouchette – Bresson, 1967 Woman [...]

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“Fat, too, fool, hey?” – The Mind in Morning (Snow in film)

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 1978 Cincinnati Fiction Festival, Andrei Tarkovsky, Atom Egoyan, Butcher's Crossing, Carl Jung, Cormac McCarthy, Fargo, Greg Gerke, Harmonium, Heraclitus, Hunters in the Snow, James Joyce, John Gardner, John Madera, John Williams, Lydia Davis, Metaphor as Degeneration, Mirror, Nick Ripatrazone, Pablo Picasso, Pieter Bruegel, Rainer Maria Rilke, Robert Altman, Solaris, Stanely Kubrick, Steven Soderbergh, The Auroras of Autumn, The Pedersen Kid, The Snow Man, The Sweet Hereafter, This Solitude of Cataracts, Virginia Woolf, W.S. Merwin, Wallace Stevens, William Gass on November 23, 2010 | 19 Comments »

Having just reread William Gass’s “The Pedersen Kid” yesterday morning, I decided to do a study of associations–what my brain does as I read, what I think of, what I take away–though right there I sally and this Heraclitus quote, used as an epigraph in W.S. Merwin’s The Lice, drips back into my consciousness: All [...]

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Eight is Enough

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Abbas Kiarostami, Andrei Tarkovsky, Ingmar Bergman, John Cassavetes, Robert Altman, Robert Bresson, Stanely Kubrick, Yasujiro Ozu on September 27, 2010 | 23 Comments »

I love film. I want to pay tribute to eight film directors who have changed the way I see life. Robert Altman 1925-2006

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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 ‘Andrei Tarkovsky’

A D & Jeremy Talk about Movies: The Tree of Life

It’s Not Time to DeListify

“Fat, too, fool, hey?” – The Mind in Morning (Snow in film)

Eight is Enough

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

Brevity, Part 2: Long Takes

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