Having just reread William Gass’s “The Pedersen Kid” yesterday morning, I decided to do a study of associations–what my brain does as I read, what I think of, what I take away–though right there I sally and this Heraclitus quote, used as an epigraph in W.S. Merwin’s The Lice, drips back into my consciousness: All [...]
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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 »
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 [...]
Eight is Enough
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Abbas Kiarostami, Andrei Tarkovsky, Ingmar Bergman, John Cassavetes, Robert Altman, Robert Bresson, Stanely Kubrick, Yasujiro Ozu on September 27, 2010 | 23 Comments »
I love film. I want to pay tribute to eight film directors who have changed the way I see life. Robert Altman 1925-2006
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 [...]
Top Films of the Decade
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged David Lynch, Lars von Trier, Michael Haneke, Robert Altman, Sidney Lumet, Todd Field on December 18, 2009 | 31 Comments »
In March 2002 I woke up one morning in a trailer in the south of France, near the city of Carpentras. I worked on a fully organic farm (nothing mechanical, horse-drawn tills). There were no entertainment devices, save a transistor radio that picked up a plethora of European and Russian stations at night before evaporating [...]
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