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Jaspar Lamar Crabb

13May12

YOU are the GUESS THE FILM Master!

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Emery Snyder

9May12

Very nice, the lipstick reflection from Spirit of the Beehive's one of my all time favorite shots in cinematic history....

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Hey, Let's see, I think a film by Christian Petzold is a must, as he's one of the founders the 'movement'. 'Yella' is probably the quintessential Petzold film, in terms of both aesthetics and politics. And it happens to star his favorite leading lady, Nina Hoss. Though you can't go wrong with a couple of others from him. I would have suggested Maria Speth's 'The Days Between', but I see that you're already familiar with it. Great film. You could select one of Maren Ade's two emotionally intimate features, 'The Forest for the Trees' and 'Everyone Else'. It's likely that once you see one you'll want to get a hold of the other. I love the near-Bressonian rigor of Thomas Arslan's work, of which 'Dealer' is the one I revisited most recently and was quite impressed by it. It's the first in a trilogy about migrants. You could also take a look at Ulrich Köhler's 'Windows on Monday', where, much like a number of other Berlin School films, including Köhler's debut 'Bungalow', a pervasive sense of existential ennui abounds. I think that's four or five right there, which is what you were looking for. I hope you get a chance to see them soon. And feel free to share any thoughts you might have. I'm intrigued by your rating of Kaul's 'The Gaze'. I've more or less avoided it thus far, a mistake perhaps. // Ciao.

localdjango

8May12

Thanks Arsaib. So I’m going to watch Yella, Everyone Else, The Dealer, Bungalow and a film by Angela Schanelec just because I think I have many of her films so I might as well. Judging from your list “Passing Summer” is ranked high so possibly that? I was also looking at “Places in the City”. As for Kaul, I feel like I saw a different film from everyone else here, I thought it was great. Maybe people didn’t like Shekhar Kapur who knows. I liked it better than Bresson’s adaptation, maybe that’s blasphemy but so be it. In all its thematic and formal complexity it somehow felt amorphous. It really spoke to Kaul’s premise that film is a temporal medium. Positioning objects within a neutral space and introducing randomness; he ordered his cameraman not look through the lens to avoid an impulsive appropriation of space based on the old dichotomy of the profane and the sacred. The notion that the cinematic process is a function of time, establishing a certain rhythm through duration. It actually reminded me of Renais’ “Muriel” in a way but maybe that’s a superficial likeness. Memories flowing through dark passages and hollow modernist spaces with relics of the past scattered throughout. She a possession among others, containing multitudes and signifying a mystery, given emphasis through gorgeous chiaroscuro lighting. It’s just been released on DVD so maybe now’s the opportune moment.
Arsaib

8May12

You comments have certainly piqued my interest further. Thanks! I like the Bresson film, but at the same time I believe that he did better. It's indeed interesting that Kaul did not regard Bresson as as a 'visual artist', at least not in the conventional sense. As for Schanelec, you can pick one that's easily accessible to you. I probably do prefer 'Passing Summer', but not by much.