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 films that consist primarily of the beautiful things. So here is a start at such a list. (And...
View ArticleIn Memory of Maria Schneider
1952–2011 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...
View ArticleI 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 Maria Schneider!)Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: Audi,...
View ArticleSomething Else Unknown: Richard Froude
“I want to think of this work as contoured. I want it to rise and fall.”* Richard Froude, born in London, moved to the US in August 2002 at age 23. I was 24, having just moved back to New Orleans from...
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