Little Murders is one of the greatest films of the 1970s—nay, of all time!—and anyone who doesn’t watch it is a scoundrel. “What’s it about?” you ask. Warily.
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Feature Friday: “Little Murders” (1971)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Alan Arkin, Carnal Knowledge, Cerebus, Dave Sim, Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Feature Friday, Gordon Willis, Jean Luc Godard, Jules Feiffer, Little Murders, Roger Ebert, The Phantom Tollbooth on March 16, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Bressonmania
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Andrew O'Hehir, Au Hasard Balthazar, cleveland cinematheque, gene siskel film center, george eastman house, harvard film archive, Indiewire, Jean Luc Godard, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Kent Jones, L'Argent, Lars von Trier, Leo Tolstoy, Michael Haneke, northwest film forum, Notes on the Cinematographer, pacific film archive, Robert Bresson, Robert Bresson Retrospective, Salon, The Forged Coupon on January 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The Robert Bresson Retrospective is at the Film Forum right now. But it is going to other venues in the US and Canada as well: The Bresson retrospective opens this week at Film Forum in New York; Jan. 19 at the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley, Calif.; Jan. 20 at the Harvard Film Archive in [...]
What Were You Doing in 1979? (part 1)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 1979, Afrika Bambaataa, ambient music, Art Garfunkel, “Da Ya Think I’m Sexy?”, “Rapper’s Delight”, Bad Timing, Blood and Guts in High School, Brian Eno, David Bowie, DJ Kool Herc, Fear of Music, George Lucas, Jean Luc Godard, Jenny Holzer, John Lennon, Kathy Acker, Lodger, Manhattan, McDonald’s Happy Meal, Music for Airports, New Romantic, New Wave, One Trick Pony, Paul Simon, Rod Stewart, Sauve Qui Peut (La Vie), Scary Monsters (And Super Freaks), Sony Walkman, Stanely Kubrick, Stardust Memories, Sugarhill Gang, Talking Heads, The Empire Strikes Back, The Shining, Truisms, Universal Zulu Nation, What Were You Doing in 1979?, Woody Allen on May 5, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Paul Simon was making One Trick Pony. Art Garfunkel was starring in Nicolas Roeg’s Bad Timing.
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 [...]
Seventeen Ways of Criticizing Inception (AKA, All Knowledge Isn’t Equal)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Steve Katz, Jean Luc Godard, Greg Gerke, Rose Alley, Jeremy M. Davies, Harry Mathews, Frank Miller, Hollis Frampton, Batman, Frank Kermode, Susan Sontag, James Peterson, Peter Wyngarde, The Sense of an Ending, Alain Resnais, Inception, Jack Horkheimer, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, David Bordwell, Kristin Thompson, Banksy, Tao Lin, Ari Up, Zorn's Lemma, Against Interpretation, Annette Atkins, teaching history backwards, mnemonics, Jonah Berger, Alan T. Sorensen, Scott J. Rasmussen, "Can Negative Publicity Help?", Peyton Reed, Down with Love, Last Year at Marienbad, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Mai 68, Film Art, Britney Spears on November 14, 2010 | 10 Comments »
[This can be considered a response to this post, and its comments thread.] 1. You’ve just become the fiction editor of a small journal. You open your email and see that you’ve received 1,000 unsolicited submissions. The first ten were sent by: Carlos Shirley Jeanne Goss Jack Livingston Christine Stribling Melissa Mathieu Benjamin Tatro Tao [...]
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 [...]
Brevity, part 7: Slow Motion
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Andrew & Lana Wachowski, Andy Warhol, Arthur Penn, Blake Edwards, Brian De Palma, Bullet-Time, David Lynch, Douglas Gordon, Dziga Vertov, Eadweard Muybridge, Erik Satie, Godfrey Reggio, Interpol, Jean Cocteau, Jean Luc Godard, Jean Vigo, John Woo, Joseph Cornell, Kar Wai Wong, Kenneth Anger, Martin Scorsese, Maya Deren, overcranking, Pixies, René Clair, Rouben Mamoulian, Sam Peckinpah, slow motion, Stanley Kubrick, Tim Macmillan, Time-Slice, undercranking, Velouria, Wes Anderson, Zack Snyder, zoopraxiscope on March 9, 2010 | 10 Comments »
Note: This post is partly a reply to a question someone asked me, back-channel, about slow motion, but also partly due to my general interest in how time works in narrative, and in brevity and stasis (and “the ongoing”). Slow motion is created by presenting film footage at a slower rate than it was shot [...]
Tiny Shocks: Uncovering the Reductive Plot of James Wood’s How Fiction Works
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Ann Quin, B.S. Johnson, Breathless (1960), Breathless (1983), Chekhov, Cthulhu, Curtis White, Flaubert, G.I. Joe, Hamlet, Henry James, How Fiction Works, James Wood, Jean Luc Godard, Jean-François Lyotard, John Gardner, John Ruskin, Last Tango in Paris, Les Carabiniers, Madame Bovary, Nabokov, ostranenie (enstrangement), Saul Bellow, The 400 Blows, The Concept of Character in Fiction, The Middle Mind, Theodore Adorno, Theory of Prose, Three Blondes and Death, Tripticks, Viktor Shklovsky, Watchmen, William H. Gass, Yuriy Tarnawsky on January 31, 2010 | 42 Comments »
[Update: As if this post weren't long enough, there's now a Part 2.] On January 22, I read Shya Scanlon’s post “The Dull King”; on January 25 I read his second post “Cover Your Tracks.” Both were about reading James Wood’s How Fiction Works. Before that I’d heard of James Wood but hadn’t read anything [...]
Break Every Rule, Part 2
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Andrey Tarkovsky, AVA, Break Every Rule, Carole Maso, he American Woman in the Chinese Hat, James Joyce, Jean Luc Godard, Lyric Novel, Rainer Maria Rilke, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, Virginia Woolf on November 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Whereas the first chapter of Carole Maso’s Break Every Rule (I wrote about it HERE) is a kind of travelogue where cities or towns in Rhode Island, New Jersey, New York, and Massachusetts, as well as in France, inspire reveries on home and language, the second chapter unfolds much differently. “Notes of a Lyric Artist [...]
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