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Savannah Film Festival Update

Nov 03, 2005 01:13

Movies Watched (Between Oct. 27 and Nov. 2, 2005)
Le Croisment (The Crossing) (Brad Jayne, 2004) [13 min. short -- SFF]
Crumb (Terry Zwigoff, 1994)
Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944)
The Graduate (Mike Nichols, 1967) *
Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir, 1937) *
The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (Werner Herzog, 1974)
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Replies, Replies life_boy November 4 2005, 05:08:24 UTC

cajunvoodoo: "Do you like any of [Hitchcock's] films?"

Yes. I haven't seen all 37 of them; I think I've seen 12. Rope (1948) and Strangers on a Train (1951) are probably my two favorites (for now). I don't have cable but TCM almost makes me want to throw down for it. I was looking through their schedule today and there are all kinds of good things on there -- even some films I can't get ahold of very easily like Sunrise, The Magnificent Ambersons, or The Conformist. When me and Betsy spend time in Tupelo over the holidays, I will probably be filling up blank VHS tapes with lots of goodies to take home.

whycantiforget: "...I'd suggest watching M by Fritz Lang."

I actually watched it for my first time last week. It is very good. I think I prefer Metropolis but they are both great pieces of work. The story was very well-told and some of the shots were simply incredible. The last few scenes were more moving than I was expecting.

whycantiwait: "...do you have any idea how I can get ahold of this film, Le Mepris, before ( ... )

Re: Replies, Replies whycantiforget November 5 2005, 16:00:56 UTC

Thanks, I'll find it by hook or by crook. If not I'll figure it out somehow. Le Mepris was the first film we watched in class which was back in early September, how someone is supposed to remember a film they watched three months ago well enough to write a paper on it is beyond me but hey what're you gonna do?

I saw Le Mepris and Bande a Part and I'm supposed to write a two page paper on how Godard "situates his cinema, in the two Godard films we've seen, to the past history of the cinema and in particular to the work of Fritz Lang, especially M." Zuh? Any idea what he can possibly mean because everyone I've read that to has agree with me that that sentence makes absolutely no sense.

From what I've seen, I'm not much of a Godard fan either. What are the three films of his that you have seen? Opinion, thoughts, etc?

Re: Replies, Replies life_boy November 6 2005, 18:50:47 UTC

Well, at least you have seen the film. It sounded as if he just through the paper out there. I would definately want to rewatch it before writing anything on it, but in a pinch you can bullshit something.

...write a two page paper on how Godard "situates his cinema, in the two Godard films we've seen, to the past history of the cinema and in particular to the work of Fritz Lang, especially M."

That sentance is kind of silly - which is fitting for a paper on Godard. I've seen Breathless (1959), Band of Outsiders (1964) and My Life to Live (1962). Not having seen Le Mepris I don't have much room to think in terms of that paper topic. Godard's cinema is alwasy incredibly self-conscious; he will often be making little connections to other movies (ex: in My Life to Live Ana goes to the theater and watches Carl Dryer's The Passion of Joan of Arc; the Bogart movie poster on the wall in Breathless) and is often consciously moving against ways people are used to seeing the action of films take place. I don't remember anything ( ... )

Re: Replies, Replies whycantiforget November 7 2005, 03:52:16 UTC

Luckily someone else in my class was able to give me a copy of Le Mepris and I'm almost done with the paper. Everything I've written is bullshit that I don't believe but whatever, at least I'm handing it in. There's only one copy of the movie in the library and I put a hold out on it awhile ago but whoever had it before me decided to be an inconsiderate prick and never got around to turning it back in ( ... )

Re: Replies, Replies life_boy November 7 2005, 05:06:05 UTC

"In film school, did they talk about Cinemascope alot?"I'm still in (film) school. Actually, here at SCAD (Savannah College of Art & Design), the emphasis is mainly technical. There are only a handful of classes that have anything to do with cinema appreciation, theory or analysis. There's also only one film history class (which I have yet to take). So, I haven't heard Cinemascope talked about much because we don't really talk about movies that much. I'm in a class called the Language of Cinema right now, and the emphasis in discussion is more on message and how a filmmaker uses the medium to say whatever he's trying to say. It is interesting. I imagine Cinemascope is something that is discussed because either A) there's some dumb people who wonder why their widescreen DVD "makes the picture so small and cuts off the top and bottom of the frame", or B) there's people who are really interested in shooting 2.35:1 because Wes Anderson does, or C) the teachers don't realize what other teachers teach and think they skip over ( ... )

Re: Replies, Replies life_boy November 7 2005, 05:07:11 UTC

And Werner Herzog has become one of my favorite filmmakers.

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