“I want to think of this work as contoured. I want it to rise and fall.”* Richard Froude, born in…
I know I prefer auto ads when they swipe from Antonioni films
From Yahoo Mail: Cf. Antonioni’s 1975 masterpiece The Passenger: (Notice how this clip’s presented by Audi? Even horrible corporations love…
In Memory of Maria Schneider
Maria Schneider, the female lead in two of my all-time favorite films, Bernardo Bertolucci’s Last Tango in Paris (1972) and…
Brevity, Part 2: Long Takes
Some of us have been discussing long takes in movies, and John mentioned that he’d like seeing a list of…