Saw it at the Miami Film festival and thought it was incredible. Yeah, it absolutely deserves more attention. Kids have unlimited information at the tips of their fingers with absolutely nowhere to turn to and no one to trust. I spoke with the producer about how it’s having such a hard time finding distribution but hopefully in time people will get a chance to see it.
I was serious when I said that’s too many already, Griffith was an outright RACIST. Yeah, it’s good to see one or two to get any idea of his conitnuity, but that’s it. Don’t wate time watching Griffith when theres so much else out there. He’s been mummified by Americans as some god in filmmaking because his films were insanely popular. Don’t perpetuate it.
Griffith didn’t invent the close up either. It’s the bullshit (and apparantly extremely successful) remains of his self-aggrandizing promotion. He claimed he created a lot of things. He was simply part of a large commercial engine, more of his prints were in circulation so it’s really easy to “pinpoint” the use of a particular shot scale. I didn’t mean the content of his films were racist, I mean Griffith was a racist, and it’s not like some hidden secret only revealed through an interpretation of his films. He was an outspoken racist. He perpetuates the stereotype because he had an idea that his films WERE historical accuracy and the universal language (a myth). Showing black raping white was used as just another type of manipulaton, another reason to not let blacks be free.
Favorite Movie Trailers over 3 years ago
Contempt without a doubt is my favorite.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IT7P7ijpAPY
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Afterschool about 3 years ago
Saw it at the Miami Film festival and thought it was incredible. Yeah, it absolutely deserves more attention. Kids have unlimited information at the tips of their fingers with absolutely nowhere to turn to and no one to trust. I spoke with the producer about how it’s having such a hard time finding distribution but hopefully in time people will get a chance to see it.
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What 2008 film deserves the Criterion treatment? about 3 years ago
Hunger absolutely
Afterschool
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Essential Griffith about 3 years ago
That’s already too many.
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Essential Griffith about 3 years ago
I was serious when I said that’s too many already, Griffith was an outright RACIST. Yeah, it’s good to see one or two to get any idea of his conitnuity, but that’s it. Don’t wate time watching Griffith when theres so much else out there. He’s been mummified by Americans as some god in filmmaking because his films were insanely popular. Don’t perpetuate it.
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Essential Griffith about 3 years ago
Griffith didn’t invent the close up either. It’s the bullshit (and apparantly extremely successful) remains of his self-aggrandizing promotion. He claimed he created a lot of things. He was simply part of a large commercial engine, more of his prints were in circulation so it’s really easy to “pinpoint” the use of a particular shot scale. I didn’t mean the content of his films were racist, I mean Griffith was a racist, and it’s not like some hidden secret only revealed through an interpretation of his films. He was an outspoken racist. He perpetuates the stereotype because he had an idea that his films WERE historical accuracy and the universal language (a myth). Showing black raping white was used as just another type of manipulaton, another reason to not let blacks be free.
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Late Godard? about 3 years ago
You can’t go wrong with anything, but try Passion, Nouvelle Vague, Hélas pour moi JLG/JLG: Self-Portrait
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Late Godard? about 3 years ago
You can’t go wrong with anything, but try Passion, Nouvelle Vague, Hélas pour moi JLG/JLG: Self-Portrait
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Au hasard Balthazar almost 3 years ago
It’s a tricky film, like all Bresson, because much of you doesn’t want to trust the images at face value, but the images are all that’s there
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Out 1 over 2 years ago
It’s on Karagarga, the private torrent tracker site. Although I imagine that if any of you guys are members you probably know this anyway.
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