Father of a former student at NYU’s Tisch school of cinema studies. He’s introduced me to the world of art films beginning with Ordet five years ago and Satantango last March. I’m building off of the Criterion “Essential Art House Collection” and branching into New Wave, neorealists, and the wonders of Tarr, Tarkovsky, Ceylan and others.
I blog at http://www.churbuck.com/wordpress but don’t venture into film criticism if I can help myself.
Mikel: Three Monkees IS a masterpiece tale of infidelity and sexual intrigue -- but I prefer Climates for its cinematic love of sky and landscape. Ceylan continues to grow on me as a favorite contemporary auteur.
Ceylan won me over with his amazing landscape shots — his photography has an amazing affect on this, his first HD film. The shots in the east, when he is standing at a railing with a winter landscape… read review
My first Tarkovsy was Andrei Rublev, but Ivan’s Childhood is definitely what I would recommend as a “beginner’s introduction to Tarkovsky”
Scenes that hit me — the shot from the boots, across… read review
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