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Post by Kino on Sept 25, 2008 20:38:16 GMT
Ramin Bahrani (1975- ) Man Push Cart (3.9 stars) Chop Shop (3.9 stars)
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Post by jrod on Apr 21, 2009 1:42:22 GMT
Chop Shop  Man Push Cart Dogs  Bad Conversation (0) visited Man Push Cart and loved it almost as much as Chop Shop...2 short films on the dvd too. Good stuff. Bahrani is definately tabbed as a director to watch in my mind. |
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Post by Kino on Apr 21, 2009 19:52:38 GMT
He's really on a roll. I think Goodbye Solo (3.8-3.9 rating) is right up there with Cart and Shop.
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Post by jrod on Aug 27, 2009 6:29:29 GMT
He's really on a roll. I think Goodbye Solo (3.8-3.9 rating) is right up there with Cart and Shop. finally saw it...didnt dig it as much as the other two, but I really cant get enough of Bahrani's style. Its also amazing how he is consistently getting such wonderful performances from (i hate this term) "non-actors" i give it a |
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Post by svsg on Sept 27, 2009 2:44:41 GMT
Kino,jrod,
Would you recommend his movies for all, or at least me? I see that "chop shop" and "man push cart" are on netflix streaming.
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Post by Kino on Sept 27, 2009 3:00:34 GMT
Kino,jrod, Would you recommend his movies for all, or at least me? I see that "chop shop" and "man push cart" are on netflix streaming. I recommend his films to everyone. He's one of America's best directors. Man Push Cart is a great place to start. |
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Post by svsg on Sept 27, 2009 3:02:16 GMT
Thanks! didn't expect you to login so soon to reply  |
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Post by Omar on Sept 27, 2009 19:45:17 GMT
I am getting Netflix now through X-Box Live as of two days ago. I noticed both "Chop Shop" and "Man Push Cart" on there (didn't know it was the same filmmaker). I have no choice to check it out now. Watch this space.
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Post by jrod on Sept 29, 2009 23:18:04 GMT
Kino,jrod, Would you recommend his movies for all, or at least me? I see that "chop shop" and "man push cart" are on netflix streaming. I recommend his films to everyone. He's one of America's best directors. Man Push Cart is a great place to start. yeah, watch them as soon as you can. I don't think you'll be disappointed. |
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Post by svsg on Oct 9, 2009 4:19:18 GMT
Man Push Cart  I could never get used to the constant switching back and forth between documentary-like realism and conventional drama. |
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Post by Kino on Oct 9, 2009 4:25:15 GMT
Man Push Cart I could never get used to the constant switching back and forth between documentary-like realism and conventional drama. The film was pretty seamless to me. I didn't get a sense of switching between two modes or styles. |
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Post by svsg on Oct 9, 2009 4:35:12 GMT
The scenes of the streets, him pushing the cart, people buying coffee etc, looked as real as he would shoot a real person on the street, like a candid camera, which is what I referred to as documentary-like realism. I don't know if that is the case, but he seemed to use ambient sounds too. On the other hand, the scenes with the girl, the cat, flashback of the past story etc, which while they were good, clearly resembled filmed fictional drama, like most movies we watch.
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Post by Kino on Oct 9, 2009 4:48:44 GMT
The scenes of the streets, him pushing the cart, people buying coffee etc, looked as real as he would shoot a real person on the street, like a candid camera, which is what I referred to as documentary-like realism. I don't know if that is the case, but he seemed to use ambient sounds too. On the other hand, the scenes with the girl, the cat, flashback of the past story etc, which while they were good, clearly resembled filmed fictional drama, like most movies we watch. That's my recollection of the techniques as well, but while they were different styles literally...what I meant by my earlier statement about not switching between modes or "styles" was that it didn't feel like two different movies in one which I'm not saying you were saying. Despite using different styles (technique-wise) literally, the overall feel of Man Push Cart felt like one film, one mode, one "style." Lots of movies are like that though. For example, shooting things very classically, but then going handheld and frenetic with action scenes or scenes with high emotional stakes. Revolutionary Road was like that, I think. As the film progressed, either they switched over to handheld or the handheld shooting got more frenetic. Kiarostami and Mohsen Makhmalbaf are interesting cases. Their styles are what nearly everyone would call neorealist but there's a lot of artifice and reflexivity in some of their films. On paper, one would think that they'd be jarring or incongrous elements in one film, but Kiarostami and Makhmalbaf make it work. |
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Post by jrod on Apr 9, 2010 23:14:15 GMT
go to youtube and check out his new short, Plastic Bag. Narrated by herzog.
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