Video Sundays. Twin Trailers To The Death
Ryland Walker KnightTurns out Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis are each starring in a romantic comedy in 2011 with the same exact ethical conundrum at its crux.
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Video Sundays. Cabaret Cinema
Daniel KasmanFour clips from the cinema of cabaret: Chabrol, Godard, Sternerg, Sirk.
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Video Sundays: Cinema Lives On (Through Modern Mad Men)
Daniel KasmanBelow: Jean-Louis Barrault in Jean Renoir's Le testament du Docteur Cordelier (1959); cinematography by Georges Leclerc. Below: Denis Lavant in Leos Carax's Merde, part of Tokyo! (2008); cinematography
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Video Sundays. From Hollywood to New German Cinema, The Impressionist Whirligig Camera
Daniel KasmanFrom Vincente Minnelli's Madame Bovary (1949); featuring Jennifer Jones; cinematography by Robert H Planck. From F.W. Fassbinder's Martha (1974); featuring Margit Carstensen and Karlheinz Böhm; cinematography
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Video Sundays: Music Videos by An Older Generation
Daniel KasmanNowadays, music videos done by noted auteurs are hardly a rare thing: Wong Kar-wai, David Lynch, Claire Denis, and Philippe Grandrieux have made them, among many others. Far rarer are filmmakers who
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Video Sundays: For That One Second, the Look in Grace Kelly's Eyes, the Movement of Her Head
Daniel KasmanFrom John Ford's Mogambo (1953). Featuring Grace Kelly, Clark Gable, and Eva Gardner. Cinematography by Robert Surtees and Freddia Young.
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Video Sundays: Tunnel Vision
Daniel Kasman(It should be noted—and enjoyed!—that such a recursive path can obviously be diverted at any point, such as the example here which branches off from the 5th video above.)
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Video Sundays: The Rhythm of the Night
Daniel KasmanDancing defines the night: late night exhaustion, exultation, revere. Stay aloof or dive in as far as one can go. Corona-Denis-Lavant + Björk-Corona-Jimmy Cliff-Pialat-Depardieu-Pailhas (For Le
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Video Sundays, The Art of the Trailer Edition: "The Crazies" vs. "Green Zone"
Daniel KasmanThe answer comes from the kinds of space these trailers decide to show. While the bulk of the drama and action of The Crazies seems limited to smaller-budgeted horror setups—stuck in a house, stuck in
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Video Sundays: Flip Six Three Hole, or Football and The Great American Pastiche
Daniel KasmanIf only Robert Altman knew what his satire of football and war in MASH would bring us in the post-modern age...
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Video Sundays: The Modern Charade Continued, Video Games Edition
Daniel KasmanLast month (with Jerry Lewis and Michelangelo Antonioni) we noted the art cinema trope (#2301 for those counting) of characters learning to live in the modern world by accepting and taking part in an imaginary
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Video Sundays: Auteur Pantomime in the Years 1961-2
Daniel Kasman(1) Agnès Varda and Jean-Luc Godard: (2) Jerry Lewis: