- Culture Warrior: This is Not a Banksy
Thought-provoking piece on art, the art documentary, and specifically the Banksy film Exit Through the Gift Shop. - When Is a Musical Not a Musical?
I think Rosenbaum hits the nail on the head here with Godard – “But Godard’s critical influence on me and many others has stemmed in part from things he hasn’t been able to do as a director. Relative to his own models, he failed to make thrillers out of Breathless and Band of Outsiders, a war film of Les carabiniers, a melodrama of Contempt, science fiction of Alphaville and Anticipation (from the anthology film The Oldest Profession), or even Shakespeare of King Lear. Part of this failure is inadvertent, part deliberate and purposeful: an ability to take things apart and understand how they function isn’t always matched by an ability to put them back together again.” If you can put up with failure for the sake of experimentation (and somewhat solipsistic experimentation at that), you’ll like Godard. If you can’t, you won’t. It is pretty much that simple. - Observations on film art : Metropolis unbound
A great piece from David Bordwell about the Metropolis restoration. He discusses the shifts and additions to the narrative due to the new footage, then looks specifically at Lang’s use of cinematic space to drive both narrative and theme rather than relying on intertitles. - The overactors – Mad, bad, and dangerous to the scenery
“…even such self-aggrandising performances are still usually tuned to the key of supposed psychological realism; no matter how obvious or obnoxious, the actor is resolutely “in character” and therefore, somehow, inherently authentic. It seemingly matters little that Method’s furrowed-brow mumbling is, in its own way, as stylized as a kabuki mask. ” - Malick, Coppola could lead strong crop at Venice (or Toronto) for 2010
Here is hoping for Tree of Life for Tiff, but ather potentials on the fall festival circuit include Sofia Coppola’s Somewhere, Clint Eastwood’s Hereafter, Tom Hooper’s The King’s Speech, Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan, Anton Corbijn’s The American, Julian Schnabel’s Miral, Danny Boyle’s 127 Hours, John Cameron Mitchell’s Rabbit Hole, Bruce Robinson’s The Rum Diary, Robert Rodriguez’s Machete and Julie Taymor’s The Tempest. Screendaily mentions many, many more. - 15 Grossly Misleading Movie Posters
Movies are both an art form and a business, so while it’s the artist’s vision that dictates the direction, it is sadly entirely up to clean shaven men with business degrees to decide how to sell it. And while we understand it’s their job to twist the truth to maximize a movie’s appeal, sometimes they go completely insane and just start making shit up. Occasionally, they hit on a better idea than the movie ever did…
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