[This post began as a response to some comments made by Douglas Storm on Amber's most recent post.] The name “Viktor Shklovsky” comes up a lot at this site (I’m guilty of mentioning it in perhaps half of my posts), and one might wonder why the man and his work matters. Below, I’ll try and [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Roger Ebert’
A D & Jeremy Talk about Movies—Extra: Linda’s Voice-Over Narration in Days of Heaven
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Days of Heaven, Linda Manz, Roger Ebert, Terrence Malick, The Tree of Life on June 28, 2011 | 13 Comments »
I’ve been teaching Days of Heaven on and off for a several years now, and I transcribed Linda Manz‘s voice-over narration because I couldn’t find it online anywhere. Besides being one of the most extraordinary aspects of the film, it ranks as some of the finest poetry of the past 35 years. Director Terrence Malick [...]
In Memory of Maria Schneider
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bernardo Bertolucci, Jack Nicholson, Last Tango in Paris, Maria Schneider, Marlon Brando, Michelangelo Antonioni, Roger Ebert, The Passenger on February 4, 2011 | 8 Comments »
Maria Schneider, the female lead in two of my all-time favorite films, Bernardo Bertolucci’s Last Tango in Paris (1972) and Michelangelo Antonioni’s The Passenger (1975), died yesterday from cancer. This depresses me quite a bit, actually—Schneider was a tremendous actor who never really got the credit she deserved for her remarkable performances in each of [...]
Why Do You Need So Many Cinemas?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged AKJAK, animutation, Billy Joel, Brian Eno, Can Dialectics Break Bricks?, cinema, David Bordwell, David Lynch, détournement, Film Art, Flash animation, Frank Film, Frank Mouris, George Lucas, James Earl Jones, Joseph Cornell, Judson Laipply, Kanye West, Kristin Thompson, Len Lye, Lisa Schwarzbaum, Lumière Brothers, Mike Stoklasa, Neil Cicierega, Onion AV Club, René Viénet, Roger Ebert, scott mccloud, Situationist International, Stan Brakhage, Star Wars, Terry Gilliam, Thomas Edison, Understanding Comics, Vader Sessions, Weezer, YouTube on January 30, 2011 | 9 Comments »
In my last post on this topic, I argued that cinema can be redefined as “the cinematic arts,” which would include not only movies and short films, but also music videos, commercials, TV programs, experimental film and video, installation art, video games, Flash animations, animated gifs, and even “nonelectrical” forms of moving images, such as [...]
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 1970s vs. the 2000s (in Hollywood film, at least)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 1970s cinema, 2000s cinema, David Bordwell, Hollywood, Kristin Thompson, Paul Kincaid, Pauline Kael, Peter Biskind, Roger Ebert, Roman Jakobson, the dominant, The New Hollywood on October 24, 2010 | 24 Comments »
Paul’s post “Science in the Ghetto” got me thinking about the infantilizing of Hollywood movies. I wanted to see if reality matches my impression (which is that Hollywood films these days are less oriented toward adult audiences), so I gathered the lists of the top-ten grossing English-language films for each year of the 1970s and [...]
Arthur Penn’s Night Moves
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Robert Altman, Don't Look Now, Nicolas Roeg, Wes Anderson, Bonnie and Clyde, Arthur Penn, Night Moves, Roger Ebert, The Long Goodbye, Point Blank, Days of Heaven, Annie Hall, John Boorman, Gene Hackman, Éric Rohmer, My Night at Maud's, Melanie Griffith, The Conversation, William Wyler, Ernst Lubitsch, Billy Wilder, The New Hollywood, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Ross Macdonald, Francis Ford Coppola 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 [...]
Art as Experience
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Allan Kaprow, Arnold Schoenberg, Art Institute of Chicago, atonal music, conceptual art, Dar Williams, Elvis Presley, Happenings, Jackson Pollock, James Franco, John Cage, John Dewey, Marcel Duchamp, Mark Rothko, Meet Joe Black, Out One, performance art, Roger Ebert, Space Invaders, the dominant, Video Games, Yves Klein on April 28, 2010 | 18 Comments »
In the comments section of my last post, Can Video Games Be Art?, I sketched out a definition of art as experience, or even as an attitude, rather than as a thing or a collection of things (see here and here). At the risk of repeating myself, I’d like expound on that position, in case [...]
Can Video Games Be Art?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Roger Ebert, Video Games on April 21, 2010 | 24 Comments »
So Roger Ebert has once again thrown down the Gauntlet, insisting that video games are not art—and what’s more, that they can NEVER be art. Obviously he’s being heavy-handed, and a bit of a firebrand. I swear I can hear his chuckling clear across town! I have discovered a truly marvelous proof that Ebert is [...]
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