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Chantal Akerman: 10 Essential Films. I wrote this for @BFI, before NO HOME MOVIE is released on Friday: bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/n…
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Michael Ewins
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Michael Ewins
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Histoire(s) du cinephiles des follies. Writing about Akerman, tweeting about Keanu.
Stratford-upon-Avon Katılım Ocak 2009
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Write it as it’s happening, while reflecting on the moment of the film: its textures and rhythms, symbols and clichés, how it interacts with other texts, and how all of this is being passed through you, into you, to be carried out into your day, your week, the years of your life.
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The most honest thing you can do as a critic is be honest with yourself. Interrogate your insides, the way the film resides in you, what you find there and how it’s working on you. Stay at the scene of your unfolding reaction, include that.
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If, as a critic, you are trying to help “paint the picture of what an audience can anticipate,” you will not be worth reading. That’s marketing, of which there is already plenty. Don’t project. Reflect. You’ve just had an embodied encounter with a work of art, so relate that.
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We’ve legit lost the plot. I honestly have zero idea what people are looking for these days but there needs to be a major shift in criticism. The movie I saw was well written, well directed, beautifully shot, insanely well performed and the sound was amazing. Are we “film” critics or not. We’re supposed to help paint the picture of what an audience can anticipate and this score is not even close to that picture, objectively.
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@ryanhasbadtaste He specifically attributes that concept to his ten-year-old, so not quite sure what the issue is here…
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i read the opening of transcription and lerner saying by the end of paragraph one that sitting backwards on a train was like traveling into the past had me putting that back on the shelf.
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@Iacobus_81 Do you know where I can see this, and others by Anne Rees-Mogg? I know Macbeth, A Tragedy and Welcome/Adieu are on BFI Player, but the rest are no longer available to stream. Equally, links on Lux are now dead. Thanks.
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@FilmLandEmpire I’d highly recommend chronological viewing with Wiseman. High School is a perfect introduction.
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So hey I have this crazy friend who’s definitely not me and who’s never seen any film by Frederick Wiseman. Mubi has a whole bunch of them, which one is a good start for me? I mean, him!
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How many films aside from Psycho have been repurposed or referenced in other major artworks (especially in mediums other than film)? And what is it about Psycho that continually draws us back to make more out of it? I’d kind of argue the ‘remake’ falls into this category too.
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I'm looking for these films for research but can't locate them via my usual sources. If anyone has copies, I'd appreciate it! boxd.it/T6jYC
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Extremely exciting that @SecondRunDVD are releasing Kazuo Hara’s EXTREME PRIVATE EROS, one of the best Japanese films of the 1970s, and one of the best documentaries ever made.
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@WillSloanEsq Requiem For A Village, The United States of America, My Father, Always Love Your Man, Grey Gardens, Semiotics of the Kitchen, Welfare, Overlord, French Connection II.
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Best movies of 1975? Obviously there's Jeanne Dielman, Nashville, Jaws, Barry Lyndon. Can't forget India Song, Love and Death, Mirror, The Passenger. Salo! Monty Python and the Holy Grail! Can't forget Shivers. Mandingo. Framed. Xala. Sholay! Terror of Mechagodzilla! Dolemite!!!
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@thamosdeaf This really nails the appeal of this certain kind of movie. There’s little I love more in cinema than two hours of people looking through boxes and slides and photographs.
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Rewatching Spotlight. One of my favorite elements of this film is being ensconced in a more fully analog environment in which information is more patiently sought out and more rewarding to have found.
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the final scene of Welfare remains one of the most stunning scenes i've ever seen in a film. simply jaw-dropping. RIP to the master of masters. youtube.com/watch?v=cPyMWM…
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The way Bud Cort (as the Bond Company Stooge gone pirate) says "We fuckin' stole it, man" when Goldblum asks him about the espresso machine in Life Aquatic-- one of my favorite line readings in all of Wes. RIP
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I can't pick a favourite Wiseman film, but the last hour of BALLET, when the company are on tour across Europe, is like nothing else in his body of work - a coming-of-age in miniature, probably the greatest ever depiction of something we see rarely: hard work paying off.
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Hard to imagine a world without Frederick Wiseman pointing his camera at it. You'll read a lot today about his intelligence, integrity, ethics, the intense labour of his process and commitment to showing things as they truly are. But his films are also really, really funny.
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In memory and honor of Frederick Wiseman, who took hold of a still-young format and, guided from the start by an unyielding sense of principle, made a body of work so original, idea-rich, and unified that it seems foreordained—a historic fusion of investigation and the inner life
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@roryisconfused His conversations with Anne Carson are brilliant.
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Please recommend classic Michael Silverblatt bookworm episodes to listen to while I jog 🙏
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@thesongcave I would read a new edition of that book every year, and wish for more years. That's the thing about Silverblatt, he introduces you to impossible numbers of books to read in a lifetime, then asks you to slow down, to meet him at his level of generous closeness. He was a wizard.
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I don't know Bookworm's broadcast/access history in the UK, but I discovered it late thanks to @thesongcave's publication of conversations with Berger, Sontag, Sebald, DFW, Paley (+ more). That's a reference book for the ages, and covers barely a sneeze of the show's output.
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Silverblatt’s attention and inquiry were peerless, which means he talked to everybody. Whenever I discover a new writer, I go to Bookworm and find them in Michael's corner, waiting to hear *him* speak, to have their work opened up and elucidated. Interlocution became criticism.
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