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Post by Michael on Mar 24, 2008 20:46:55 GMT
Use Netflix. Blockbuster is the end of cinema.
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Post by Kino on Mar 24, 2008 21:16:49 GMT
They schedule midterms in the evening? That's too bad. You never had any night classes? No. My latest class in all my years started at 2:30 pm. Latest final/midterm exam was 4:30 pm start-6:30 pm end. Night classes were only for master's classes and community classes. I've heard about The Terrorizer being Antonioniesque. Did you find it so? I think critics were linking some architectural shot design and storytelling strategies. Plot-wise, sounded, if anything, a little like Blowup. Critics go overboard w/ influences and such, though. Just wondering what you thought of it.
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Post by Capo on Mar 24, 2008 21:30:58 GMT
Critics do go overboard with influences. I also think they go overboard with intentions, too, as far as authorship goes. I don't think there's anything wrong with spotting and discussing similarities between works, though. Similarities can be intentional or unintentional, and I think it can be useful to link films to other films, thematically and stylistically.
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Post by svsg on Apr 21, 2008 6:21:45 GMT
Just finished watching Yi Yi. Excellent excellent stuff.
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Post by Kino on Apr 21, 2008 18:06:23 GMT
Just finished watching Yi Yi. Excellent excellent stuff. *Backflips in celebration* Finally someone on FCM other than Bobbyreed and I have seen it (as far as I know). Review coming up?
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Post by bobbyreed on Apr 22, 2008 1:35:06 GMT
Jake's also seen it, I think.
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Post by Kino on Apr 22, 2008 3:13:11 GMT
Even better!
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Post by svsg on Apr 22, 2008 5:03:33 GMT
*Backflips in celebration* Glad... after thoroughly pissing you off with my negative comments on Misoguchi Wouldn't call it a review, but here are my current thoughts on the film... Yang does not base this movie on an intricate plot or a story with something to find out about in the end. A simple family setting, invoking nostalgic memories about childhood, love and relationships. An important but obvious theme is the link between the generations, in terms of repeating experiences. I loved the cinematography and the use of colors, achieving grandness without being flashy. One visual style that jumped out was the use of partly transparent/reflective surfaces to achieve interesting effects. Not to mention long shots.
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Post by Kino on Apr 22, 2008 5:26:47 GMT
I was joking w/ the heart attack comment! LOL. Other than disagreeing about histrionic acting not suited for cinema, I don't think I took your comments all that personal. Now, if we were talking about Ozu, that'd be different. I admire Mizoguchi a lot, but sort of in a distanced way. Ozu, I'm totally for. There you might hurt my feelings so to speak. LOL.
Agreed. It's a wonderfully dense narrative, though. Novelistic in a fantastic way not as much as A Brighter Summer Day, though! Yang like Hou and Ozu don't point to plot points and or cause-effect chains with neon arrows like the way it's usually done. SpoilerTing-Ting not taking out the garbage turns out to have huge consequences, but it's not driven home with a hammer, ya knowSpoiler End. Stuff like that.
Yup. Striking without coming off pretentious.
Watched the Criterion DVD? Those reflections look so beautiful on it. The previous Fox Lorber DVD was horrible!
re: long shots
Lesson to filmmakers. Intimacy/privacy doesn't mean close-ups all the time!
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Post by svsg on Apr 22, 2008 5:35:38 GMT
Now, if we were talking about Ozu, that'd be different. I admire Mizoguchi a lot, but sort of in a distanced way. Ozu, I'm totally for. There you might hurt my feelings so to speak. LOL. I didn't know you were a fan of Ozu, Kino Ozu, lol I am yet to explore Ozu... will do sometime soon. Watched the Criterion DVD? Yup, luckily blockbuster had this version. I am tempted to watch ABSD, but I don't have your permission to watch a download
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Post by seyfried on Apr 22, 2008 5:50:51 GMT
Speaking of Ozu, I had the pleasure of watching the Tokyo-Ga recently. I emphatically recommend it.
(As well as Roland Barthes's Empire of Signs for anybody looking to get into [or out of] post-structuralism)
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Post by Kino on Apr 25, 2008 3:21:24 GMT
SVSG, which stories were your favorite in Yi Yi? What themes did you like/find?
I love the stuff involving N.J. the most - Ota and Sherry.
SpoilerLoved the concept of photographing the back of people's and heads and Yang-Yang's reason for it!
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Post by Kino on Apr 25, 2008 3:23:20 GMT
Speaking of Ozu, I had the pleasure of watching the Tokyo-Ga recently. I emphatically recommend it. I second that.
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Post by svsg on Apr 25, 2008 4:04:59 GMT
SVSG, which stories were your favorite in Yi Yi? What themes did you like/find? SPOILERS ALERTFavorite Stories1. Honesty of NJ and his whole relationship with the Japanese client. 2. NJ being put to tricky business situations in the last minute due to his goofy friends. 3. The daughter wearing the same dress (uniform?) all the time except for a brief period where she goes out with the guy. 4. The boy photographing mosquitoes 5. The boy being teased by older girls (including the opening scene). 6. The wife telling that she had nothing to tell her sick mother. 7. I liked the back of the head photographs that you mentioned, but I felt it was too profound for a kid to say. Still nice.
Didn't like: That someone will have a heart wrenching, devastating feeling 30 years after a relationship ended in TEENS! I can understand it had the relationship ended in adulthood.Favorite Themes: 1. Recurring experiences across generations. The father had the experiences that BOTH his children are experiencing in the present. 2. The boyfriend was never romantically interested in the girl. He goes back to her friend as soon they make up. Some relationships are not based on love right from the beginning, no matter what one person feels. 3. The daughter is the responsible person when the father goes away for work, the mother is dealing with mid life crisis, grandmother is sick, the brother is all too mischievous. Kind of depicts the burden on girls. Plus the heart breaks. 4. Someone may have married or have children, but still may be in love with someone else. NJ! 5. All it needs is sometime to totally bond with strangers, if they share a common thought process. Like NJ and his japanese client.
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Post by Capo on Apr 25, 2008 20:04:47 GMT
Didn't Like: That someone will have a heart wrenching, devastating feeling 30 years after a relationship ended in TEENS! I can understand it had the relationship ended in adulthood. I disagree, but then I'm automatically drawn towards that gesture of romanticism, be it plausible or not. There's no love like teenage love.
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Post by svsg on Apr 25, 2008 20:09:34 GMT
Disagreement aside, you've been reading major spoilers Now don't watch it until you no longer remember any of my spoilers I usually forget spoilers within a few minutes, but I do regret reading the spoiler of Funny Games. I haven't watched it and can't seem to forget it at all
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Post by Kino on Apr 25, 2008 20:48:54 GMT
SPOILERS ALERT
That's some real stuff. Brutally honest. I love it. LOL.
Kids can be extremely insightful and perceptive. I've been surprised many a time by children and what they say and observe.
I'm with Capo on this one.
Some adult relationships can be superifical and love/friendship between teens can be profound.
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Post by svsg on Apr 27, 2008 18:40:03 GMT
Some adult relationships can be superifical and love/friendship between teens can be profound. I just watched Manhattan, kind of touches upon the views of Capo and yours on this aspect. Interesting.
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Post by Kino on Apr 29, 2008 3:01:09 GMT
I just watched Manhattan, kind of touches upon the views of Capo and yours on this aspect. Interesting. Post a review? Don't tell me you've decided to stop writing reviews, too.
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Post by svsg on Jun 25, 2008 15:22:35 GMT
As for ABSD, it'll most likely be from a bootleg source. So it's best to suspend judgement on ABSD's audiovisual qualities for now. I guess it was a rip from VHS. Pretty low quality. I'd imagine the incredible chiaroscuro would still show through, Yes, very strikingly, but I had to google to find out what that meant, lol though, as will Yang's incredible blocking and compositional eye, too. This is the second time in two days that we are discussing blocking. That is something I have never noticed before. Hmmmm.........
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