Peter Greenway’s film A Zed & Two Noughts (A.K.A. Z00) [1985] begins with a swan crashing into a car, killing two people. The driver survives, but lives the remainder of the film as an amputee having lost her right leg. By film’s end, the amputee decides to remove her one remaining leg and falls in [...]
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We would gladly have repainted the trees and the sky
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged amputee, car crash, David Cronenbrg, direction, disability, dissociation, eye, flower, L'iceberg, love, narrative, Peter Greenaway, space, torpedo, Writing, Zombie on December 14, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Billy Wilder on “The Lubitsch Touch”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Billy Wilder, cinema, Ernst Lubitsch, narrative, The Lubitsch Touch on July 31, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Besides being totally charming, the above clip’s worth watching for its lesson in narrative economy. (I just showed my girlfriend Heaven Can Wait (1943), so Lubitsch and his storytelling mastery is much on my mind.)
A D & Jeremy Talk about Movies: Source Code, Friends, Woody Allen, The Man from London, Sucker Punch, Zardoz, Tron, Willow, and Shoot ‘Em Up
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A D & Jeremy Talk about Movies, A D Jameson, AMC River East 21, Applebee's, Avatar, Bass/Rankin, Béla Tarr, Chad and Jeremy, Cindy Morgan, cinema, cineplexes, Duncan Jones, Eastern Promises, Elliot Gould, film distribution, films, Fox & Obel, Friends (TV show), Hollywood, James Bell, Jeremy M. Davies, Jim Jarmusch, Joel Schumacher, John Boorman, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Justin, Legend (film), Marshall McLuhan, Monica Bellucci, movies, narrative, Nth Man: The Ultimate Ninja, Sherlock Holmes, Shoji Ueda, Shoot ‘Em Up, Sight and Sound, Source Code, Sucker Punch, Television, The Last Unicorn, The Man from London, The NeverEnding Story, Thor, Tilda Swinton, To the Bracken Fields, Tron, Tron Legacy, Warebi no kou, Wendy Carlos, Willow, Woody Allen, Zack Snyder, Zardoz on May 16, 2011 | 16 Comments »
[Last weekend, while en route to Abu Dhabi, my good friend Jeremy swung by my cold-water Chicago flat. After a lengthy Indian-wrestling match, we headed downtown to the AMC River East 21, where we caught a screening of Duncan Jones’s latest film, Source Code. Two hours later, expelled into the brisk April evening, we hunkered [...]
Schrödinger’s Laura
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Clifton Webb, Dana Andrews, David Lynch, Dorothy Adams, Gene Tierney, Inception, Judith Anderson, Laura, Lost, mnemonics, narrative, Otto Preminger, plot, Roger Ebert, Schrödinger's cat, Twin Peaks, Vera Caspary, Vincent Price, X-Men on December 21, 2010 | 7 Comments »
I had a stray thought recently about Otto Preminger’s classic 1944 noir Laura (1944), based on Vera Caspary’s 1943 novel of the same name. The film’s first half revolves around the murder of the title character, although of course it’s more complicated than that. And I’d like to argue that it’s slightly more complicated than [...]
The family showroom
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged narrative, performance, video on May 29, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Guy Ben Ner’s excellent video Stealing Beauty (2007, about 18 minutes) was featured in an architecture talk that my husband attended. When he came home I was eager to hear about what invited speaker Vito Acconci had to say. The reply? “Forget Acconci, watch this!” In the video the narrative imitates a typical American sitcom, [...]
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