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The Surly Scurrier
Former programming director for the Austin Film Society and journo for The Austin Chronicle
Rating System:
5 stars – Personal Canon
4 stars – Masterpiece
3 stars – Good
2 stars – Fair
1 star – Poor
My favorited films are purposefully restricted to 100 and generally highlight lesser-known stuff.
What are your thoughts on Straub/Huillet? From The Clouds is a real masterpiece, they are masters of language pushing through there normal diction in Clouds by reaching subconsciousness association as I remember them. Eugene Green had this great quote from an interview I cant seem to separate from the work, "I think, historically, the cinema was born in the late 19th century in an attempt to recover the old value of speech—that is to say, the ability to designate elements of the material world (le mot) like this so that the signs that identify them have their own identity and at the same time the unspeakable mystery of the thing designated, including its spiritual dimension... For this reason, I would define cinema as "the word made image," I'm not to sure but I believe this is somewhat clarifying for Sraub/Huilllet in how we take on there images and discourse they are hard to clarify I'd be really interested in your thoughts on the film?
I just watched my third Straub/Huillet film tonight (Othon). I think it turned my world upside down.
The write up by Tag Gallagher is beautiful now I feel I have to start a Straub/Huillet viewing spree. Could you point me to Othon? I do know if you are looking for Death of Empedocles thats on kg and I saw a film of theirs upcoming in the directors cup not sure which one :)
And if you don't have a KG account, I'd be more than happy to get you one, Jerry.
you should post your top ten french films I'm sure it'd be interesting like which is your favorite Pialat ? (:
ahh you see it would have been years before I would consider seeing Touches pas au grisbi overlooking it as a common janus film. I also need to catch up on my Rohmer and Charbol.
Yep-I quit the thread once they denied a blue-eyed Comanche chief is not a reference to Quannah Parker. You can lead a horse to water, but unfortunately you can't drown it.
Sexual politics so hard, it makes my head hurt. A blip in the brief few years that marked Tourneur’s access to B+/A- studio production Obviously a huge commercial failure as marked by its 77 minute… read review
Citizen Kane was the perfect “greatest movie of all time” for a period when cinema history was young and limited and could be fully grasped. CK could be placed in a context in which it was fully understood… read review
Imagine the five seasons of The Wire condensed to 80 minutes and set in rural Kansas in the 1870s. Tourneur is the king of elliptical filmmaking, maybe even more so than Rossellini. What’s so extraordinary… read review
Fantasies for the deployed working man. X, Z, and H are Sons of Man, and the narrator is Satan. If I didn’t speak Spanish, I would have put masking tape on the screen to hide the subtitles (and missed… read review
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