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 [...]
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Arthur Penn’s Night Moves
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Annie Hall, Arthur Penn, Éric Rohmer, Billy Wilder, Bonnie and Clyde, Days of Heaven, Don't Look Now, Ernst Lubitsch, Francis Ford Coppola, Gene Hackman, John Boorman, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Melanie Griffith, My Night at Maud's, Nicolas Roeg, Night Moves, Point Blank, Robert Altman, Roger Ebert, Ross Macdonald, The Conversation, The Long Goodbye, The New Hollywood, Wes Anderson, William Wyler on September 30, 2010 | 10 Comments »
Uncover Your Tracks: A Preliminary Critique of James Wood’s How Fiction Works
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Aristotle, Ben Jonson, Don Quixote, Flarf, free indirect style, Gravity's Rainbow, Gustave Flaubert, How Fiction Works, James Cameron, James Wood, John Gardner, leitmotif, Madame Bovary, Night Moves, On Moral Fiction, rhetoric, Shakespeare, Shya Scanlon, The Red and the Black, Thomas Pynchon, Tristram Shandy, Wagner on January 27, 2010 | 41 Comments »
Shya posted something two days ago about James Wood’s How Fiction Works, in which Wood advocates the use of “free indirect style”: The entire book is built around a concept he calls “free indirect style,” which essentially refers to a prose style for which Gustave Flaubert is largely responsible. One of the hallmarks of this [...]
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