tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11704331.post6354670225841094499..comments2023-11-05T03:12:10.925-06:00Comments on Renegade Eye: Movie RoundupFrank Partisanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03536211653082893030noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11704331.post-70941874342933039372008-09-02T21:05:00.000-05:002008-09-02T21:05:00.000-05:00Ducky: With digital photography available in cell ...Ducky: With digital photography available in cell phones, still photography is having a revolution, because it's so democratic, and a crisis if you are professional. Nobody is impressed with darkrooms anymore. Look what Myspace has done with portraiture.<BR/><BR/>Digital movie cameras are changing aesthetics as well. Youth watch Youtube, rather than TV as their parents did.<BR/><BR/>For now cinema is dominated by older directors as Woody Allen. When you go to the cinema, it's still movies as you know it.<BR/><BR/>When you watch a music video, you take montage for granted. <BR/><BR/>Montage is the perfect form for postmodernism.Frank Partisanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03536211653082893030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11704331.post-59012395543691082112008-09-02T07:29:00.000-05:002008-09-02T07:29:00.000-05:00ren, you need to take a look at Soviet silent era ...ren, you need to take a look at Soviet silent era films. Dziga Verta, Eisenstein, Dovzhenko etc.<BR/><BR/> They defined montage editing among other advances. <BR/><BR/> It isn't well realized how radical the advances in various arts were in the early days of the soviet revolution.<BR/><BR/> It's interesting that under the capitalist studio system America managed to drag up the rear of film making nations.Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11704331.post-47144543223559735092008-09-02T01:17:00.000-05:002008-09-02T01:17:00.000-05:00Ducky: On the left, the biggest impact they made i...Ducky: On the left, the biggest impact they made in film, was in the area of writing. That is why 1940s movies were generally better written than 1950s movies.Frank Partisanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03536211653082893030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11704331.post-74076074692537673022008-09-01T10:26:00.000-05:002008-09-01T10:26:00.000-05:00Since Ren is commenting on film, time to get serio...Since Ren is commenting on film, time to get serious and get into solid leftist points of view.<BR/><BR/>Most of the remaining films of Chris Marker (except "Grin Without a Cat", damnit) have been released recently in very good prints.<BR/><BR/>I consider anything by Marker to be well worthwhile but I would especially draw attention to "The Last Bolshevik", his study of Aleksandr Medvedkin. "The Sixth Side of the Pentagon" is a good place to start if you are not familiar with Marker or "La Jetee" his homage to Hitchcock's "Vertigo".<BR/><BR/>Also finally available outside institutional screening are Fred Wiseman's documentaries. Brilliant all but some suggestions:<BR/>"High School" - Wiseman only used non-diegetic sound once, when he opened his look at the American high school to Otis Redding's "Dock of the Bay". Shattering.<BR/><BR/>"Welfare" - The monumental difficulty of administering a system as complex as public welfare. A film that would give honest right wingers pause when they criticize the system for flaws.<BR/><BR/>"Belfast Maine" - Beautiful takes of a baker early in the morning stocking the shelves and the process in a packaged fish plant say as much about labor as a lot of Engels.<BR/>Can you make a visually stimulating moving film sequence of a man making chocolate donuts in near silence? If you are the genius that is Fred Wiseman, yes.<BR/><BR/>Two of the greatest film makers you've probably never seen.Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11704331.post-40752929618879328602008-09-01T10:17:00.000-05:002008-09-01T10:17:00.000-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11704331.post-75195073240483943162008-08-30T00:48:00.000-05:002008-08-30T00:48:00.000-05:00Farida: I hope you visit often. I'm sure we'll be...Farida: I hope you visit often. I'm sure we'll be talking about Afghanistan here.<BR/><BR/>Vicky: Many on the left, particularly left liberals, are clueless about fascism.Frank Partisanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03536211653082893030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11704331.post-50669195291209658512008-08-29T14:39:00.000-05:002008-08-29T14:39:00.000-05:00Nice to see someone on the left not labelling The ...Nice to see someone on the left not labelling The Dark Knight as fascist propaganda :)Vickyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15275560997065901132noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11704331.post-60708283371753422682008-08-24T02:54:00.000-05:002008-08-24T02:54:00.000-05:00hi there!i've watched some short parts of the dark...hi there!<BR/>i've watched some short parts of the dark knight on satellite but not the complete one, actually i'm not interested in that so much.<BR/>thank u for visiting my blog.<BR/>hope to be ur friend.<BR/>bye 4 nowFaridahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05173667540762545750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11704331.post-33443116932145709632008-08-24T00:51:00.000-05:002008-08-24T00:51:00.000-05:00Maria TeresaWoody Allen likes Barcelona, almost as...Maria Teresa<BR/><BR/>Woody Allen likes Barcelona, almost as much as New York.Frank Partisanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03536211653082893030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11704331.post-38064275136499033922008-08-23T17:44:00.000-05:002008-08-23T17:44:00.000-05:00In each of these films there are several of my fav...In each of these films there are several of my favorite actors and actresses, I am sure that I like everything.<BR/>I like them more when passing through cable TV, in cinemas long cold, I do not like to go to the movies alone, so I hope another year or so to see them on television via satellite or cable and feel VO Spanish with subtitles<BR/>Tonight I saw "How to kill your neighbor's dog" by Kenneth Branagh<BR/>Lynn Redgrave<BR/>Robin Wright Penn<BR/>I love cinemaUnahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11259832598217276587noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11704331.post-53564549275510919602008-08-23T03:01:00.000-05:002008-08-23T03:01:00.000-05:00Ducky: I think Batman played straightman to Joker....Ducky: I think Batman played straightman to Joker. Bale atleast was someone who couldn't upstage Ledger. Ledger has best actor wrapped up this year.<BR/><BR/>The director directed in 2000 "Memento." That was interesting.<BR/><BR/>Considering what is produced, with even the art films trite, atleast this Batman touched on some moral dillemas.<BR/><BR/>Several screenings can be found at www.filmmetro.com. You need to register to get tix.Frank Partisanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03536211653082893030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11704331.post-69246393857077957942008-08-22T17:42:00.000-05:002008-08-22T17:42:00.000-05:00I can't wait to see a number of these. Maybe one o...I can't wait to see a number of these. Maybe one of them this weekend...hope you are well. Thanks for the review. Lucky you that you get to see the previews.Mariamariacuchitahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16795651584150694329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11704331.post-59132024173659604742008-08-22T07:42:00.000-05:002008-08-22T07:42:00.000-05:00I can't say I though much of the Dark Knight. It h...I can't say I though much of the Dark Knight. It had some severe problems.<BR/><BR/>1. Muddled script - Very contrived. It did stage a perfect resolution of the Prisoner's Dilemma which would have been worth highlighting in today's foreign policy standoffs but it was just busy to get on to the next special effect.<BR/><BR/>2. Lousy composition -- Notice that for a film that had a fair amount of dialogue that all you ever get filmed are reversals with a boring background? Was there a two shot in the entire film? No, and that's because Christian Bale is a freaking joke as an actor. Can't afford to put him in a scene where he might need to actually react.<BR/><BR/>3. When the Heath Ledger tells Batman "We need the each other" a good script would have replied "I wish I could quit you".<BR/><BR/> The pencil bit was very derivative. To see it done with serious style, only with a chopstick, try Takeshi Kitano's masterpiece, "Hana-Bi".<BR/><BR/> As for me, if the Joker leads a chase through town causing mayhem and killing cops and he's lying in the street, I don't arrest him. I blow his head in half. <BR/><BR/> Anyway, technically this film was crap. Primarily because the director is a no talent geek making films for bored suburban white bread.Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.com