Woody Allen once said that art is entertainment for intellectuals…
That statement didn’t really do it for me when I first heard it, but I find myself agreeing more and more as I get wiser. Us cinephiliac smart-asses are just harder to please!
My name’s Peet Gelderblom. By day, I direct for a production company in Amsterdam. By night, I draw a weekly webcomic called Directorama, which chronicles the afterlife of a pantheon of legendary directors duking it out for artistic supremacy. Among many other auteurs, it stars Ingmar Bergman, Alfred Hitchcock, Francois Truffaut and Alan Smithee. Read it at www.directorama.net.
Actually, Francisco: De Palma has always regretted he changed things around at the last moment of post-production. The director himself is dissatisfied with the theatrical cut of Raising Cain. So this is not about me knowing better. It’s about finding out what the filmmaker’s original vision was like and get insight into his creative process. You don’t have to watch the re-cut, of course, but you might enjoy checking out the video essay, which is a summation of its findings.
Yes, Drunken Father Figure of Old: I’m the one (I can’t believe I typed that). This project started purely to satisfy my own curiosity, and then evolved when Press Play showed interest in publishing it as a piece of criticism. It’s an experiment, available for a limited time. No one’s making money on it. A link has been sent to mr. De Palma. I sincerely hope he will one day re-edit the film himself. He certainly entertained the thought in interviews (his editor even suggested it), but usually the man prefers to look ahead. That’s why I gave it a shot.
Mubi has actually featured some of my “real work”, Francisco. Not that it would be of interest to you.
It says so in the video essay, Ben: De Palma discussed the matter in interviews, most extensively in a French interview book that’s currently out of print. The writer of that book gave me first-hand information. I also had a second draft of the screenplay at my disposal that was very informative, even if it contains sections he would later improve or decide to omit.
Film: Is it art or entertainment? over 3 years ago
Woody Allen once said that art is entertainment for intellectuals…
That statement didn’t really do it for me when I first heard it, but I find myself agreeing more and more as I get wiser. Us cinephiliac smart-asses are just harder to please!
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New to The Auteurs? You Belong Here over 3 years ago
My name’s Peet Gelderblom. By day, I direct for a production company in Amsterdam. By night, I draw a weekly webcomic called Directorama, which chronicles the afterlife of a pantheon of legendary directors duking it out for artistic supremacy. Among many other auteurs, it stars Ingmar Bergman, Alfred Hitchcock, Francois Truffaut and Alan Smithee. Read it at www.directorama.net.
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Favorite auteurs missing from the profile selection box. over 2 years ago
Jonathan Glazer!
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Raising Cain Re-Cut 4 months ago
Actually, Francisco: De Palma has always regretted he changed things around at the last moment of post-production. The director himself is dissatisfied with the theatrical cut of Raising Cain. So this is not about me knowing better. It’s about finding out what the filmmaker’s original vision was like and get insight into his creative process. You don’t have to watch the re-cut, of course, but you might enjoy checking out the video essay, which is a summation of its findings.
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Raising Cain Re-Cut 4 months ago
Yes, Drunken Father Figure of Old: I’m the one (I can’t believe I typed that). This project started purely to satisfy my own curiosity, and then evolved when Press Play showed interest in publishing it as a piece of criticism. It’s an experiment, available for a limited time. No one’s making money on it. A link has been sent to mr. De Palma. I sincerely hope he will one day re-edit the film himself. He certainly entertained the thought in interviews (his editor even suggested it), but usually the man prefers to look ahead. That’s why I gave it a shot.
Mubi has actually featured some of my “real work”, Francisco. Not that it would be of interest to you.
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Raising Cain Re-Cut 4 months ago
It says so in the video essay, Ben: De Palma discussed the matter in interviews, most extensively in a French interview book that’s currently out of print. The writer of that book gave me first-hand information. I also had a second draft of the screenplay at my disposal that was very informative, even if it contains sections he would later improve or decide to omit.
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Raising Cain Re-Cut 4 months ago
Dude: The scenes of the first half are the same but in a different order. Nothing is left out.
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Raising Cain Re-Cut 4 months ago
It was a pdf-scan of the original, including handwritten notes, provided to me by someone close to the source.
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