[Last weekend, en route to Madagascar, Jeremy M. Davies swung by my Chicago atelier to hear my neighbor perform Mahler’s "Quartet for Strings and Piano in A Minor" on his singing saw. Fifteen minutes in, two other friends stopped by, bearing bootleg DVDs of three new films: Midnight in Paris, The Tree of Life, and [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Annie Hall’
Art as Inheritance, part 3: Reverse Chronology
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 2000AD, 500 Days of Summer, 5x2, Alan Moore, Annie Hall, Atom Egoyan, Bakha satang (Peppermint Candy), Betrayal (play), C. H. Sisson, Charlie Kaufman, Christopher Homm, Christopher Nolan, Coldplay, David Bordwell, David Hugh Jones, Dead Island, Doom House, Edward Lewis Wallant, ER, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, François Ozon, Gaspar Noé, George Furth, George S. Kaufman, Goodbye to the Past, Happy End, Harold Pinter, Iain M. Banks, Irréversible, Jamie Thraves, Jane Campion, Jay DiPietro, Jean Epstein, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Jonathan Nolan, Kenneth Biller, Kurt Vonnegut, La glace à trois faces, Lee Chang-dong, Leon Prochnik's short film The Existentialist, Luis Buñuel, Marc Webb, Martin Amis, Memento, Merrily We Roll Along, Michel Gondry, Mike White, Mood House, Moss Hart, Oldrich Lipský, Peter and Vandy, Pull My Daisy, Quantum Leap, reverse chronology, Russell Banks, Sealab 2021, Seinfeld, Shrabster, Slaughterhouse-five, Spike Jonez, Star Trek: Voyager, Stephen Sondheim, Techland, The Bridge at San Luis Rey, The Human Season, The Pet Shop Boys, The Pharcyde, The Reversible Man, The Sweet Hereafter, The X-Files, Thornton Wilder, Time's Arrow, Two Friends, Use of Weapons, W. R. Burnett, Woody Allen on May 25, 2011 | 19 Comments »
I’ve been doing some research into reverse chronology (for the follow-up to my post “From ‘Doom House’ to ‘Mood House’”), and I thought I’d compile the results here. Reverse chronology is probably as old as narration itself. Once one has the idea of telling a story forward, it’s a simple enough matter to tell it [...]
Arthur Penn’s Night Moves
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Robert Altman, Don't Look Now, Nicolas Roeg, Wes Anderson, Bonnie and Clyde, Arthur Penn, Night Moves, Roger Ebert, The Long Goodbye, Point Blank, Days of Heaven, Annie Hall, John Boorman, Gene Hackman, Éric Rohmer, My Night at Maud's, Melanie Griffith, The Conversation, William Wyler, Ernst Lubitsch, Billy Wilder, The New Hollywood, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Ross Macdonald, Francis Ford Coppola on September 30, 2010 | 10 Comments »
Well, Arthur Penn died. He was of course a great director. And of course everyone will be talking about how great Bonnie and Clyde (1967) is—and it is great. It’s one of the most important of American films; along with John Boorman’s Point Blank (1967), it essentially kick-started 1970s cinema, and that decade’s auteur-driven New [...]