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Style as Imitation

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A Clockwork Orange, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Amy Hempel, Andy Kubert, Ann Beattie, apple pie, Bernard Herrmann, Bill Sienkiewicz, Brazil, Carole Maso, Charles Shultz, Chris Claremont, Citizen Kane, Dan Green, David Bowie, Donald Barthelme, Douglas Adams, fine art vs. craft, Frank Miller, Franz Kline, Fresh Air, Henry Darger, Ira Glass, Joy Williams, Kathy Acker, Kurt Vonnegut, Lloyd Alexander, Marc Silvestri, Margaret Atwood, Margaret Weiss and Tracy Hickman, Michael Nyman, Nadia Boulanger, Nintendo Power, NPR, Orson Welles, Peter David, Peter Greenaway, Philip Glass, Prospero's Books, Raymond Carver, Ronald Sukenick, Sacha Vierney, Samuel Beckett, Shakespeare, Stanley Kubrick, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Terry Gilliam, The Empire Strikes Back, The Legend of Zelda, The Lord of the Rings, Thomas Pynchon, William Gaddis, Wolverine, X-Men on December 1, 2010 | 15 Comments »

1. My father, who once trained as a baker, taught me when I was a kid how to bake an apple pie. I don’t know where he got the original recipe from; I highly doubt that he invented it. Certainly he didn’t invent the idea of baking pies. And he didn’t invent the idea of [...]

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Reading Frank Miller’s Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, part 5

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Batman, Batman: Dead End, Corto Maltese, David Letterman, Frank Miller, Hugo Pratt, Neal Adams, Orson Welles, Ronald Reagan, Superman, The Dark Knight Returns, The Lady from Shanghai on April 14, 2010 | 11 Comments »

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Some Thoughts on Agnès Varda’s “Vagabond”

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Agnès Varda, Citizen Kane, Cléo from 5 to 7, formalism, French New Wave, Left Bank, Nouvelle Vague, Orson Welles, realism, Rive Gauche, Sandrine Bonnaire, Sans toi ni loit, The Beaches of Agnes, The Gleaners and I, Vagabond on February 5, 2010 | 10 Comments »

Vagabond (Sans toi ni loit), is a 1985 film by the Belgian director Agnès Varda. Varda was part of the French New Wave (with Godard, Truffaut, Rohmer, Chabrol, and Rivette), although her first film predates that movement; some critics regard her as belonging more specifically to the simultaneous Rive Gauche (Left Bank) movement (alongside Alain [...]

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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 ‘Orson Welles’

Style as Imitation

Reading Frank Miller’s Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, part 5

Some Thoughts on Agnès Varda’s “Vagabond”

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

Brevity, Part 2: Long Takes

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