― theodore fogelsanger, Thursday, 20 November 2003 15:59 (twenty years ago) link
― man, Thursday, 20 November 2003 16:01 (twenty years ago) link
― amateur!st (amateurist), Thursday, 20 November 2003 18:22 (twenty years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 20 November 2003 18:22 (twenty years ago) link
― amateur!st (amateurist), Thursday, 20 November 2003 18:23 (twenty years ago) link
― amateur!st (amateurist), Thursday, 20 November 2003 18:24 (twenty years ago) link
(apologies...)
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 20 November 2003 18:24 (twenty years ago) link
― amateur!st (amateurist), Thursday, 20 November 2003 18:26 (twenty years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 20 November 2003 18:28 (twenty years ago) link
― amateur!st (amateurist), Thursday, 20 November 2003 18:29 (twenty years ago) link
― Girolamo Savonarola, Thursday, 20 November 2003 21:32 (twenty years ago) link
what do people think of "blow up"? who else has read j. hoberman's piece on its enormous success?
― amateur!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 05:37 (twenty years ago) link
― ryan (ryan), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 05:41 (twenty years ago) link
― amateur!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 05:45 (twenty years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 07:31 (twenty years ago) link
― Enrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 07:36 (twenty years ago) link
do you mean gillian hills or jane birkin????
― amateur!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 08:02 (twenty years ago) link
― Enrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 08:08 (twenty years ago) link
― amateur!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 08:13 (twenty years ago) link
― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Friday, 10 September 2004 04:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 10 September 2004 04:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan I. (Dan I.), Friday, 10 September 2004 07:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dead Man, Friday, 10 September 2004 10:38 (nineteen years ago) link
we've dealt with this, upthread.
no it's not getting a release. someone copied me the japanese dvd.
― amateur!!st, Friday, 10 September 2004 16:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― todd swiss (eliti), Friday, 10 September 2004 16:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!st, Friday, 10 September 2004 16:46 (nineteen years ago) link
i will have to look into this.
― todd swiss (eliti), Friday, 10 September 2004 16:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!st, Friday, 10 September 2004 17:23 (nineteen years ago) link
:P
― Dan I., Friday, 10 September 2004 20:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 10 September 2004 20:57 (nineteen years ago) link
This wins!
― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Sunday, 12 September 2004 05:02 (nineteen years ago) link
For sure. Also Rossellini's General Della Rovere. Um, and Along Came Jones, I suppose.
― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Sunday, 12 September 2004 05:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Sunday, 12 September 2004 05:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Sunday, 12 September 2004 05:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Sunday, 12 September 2004 06:07 (nineteen years ago) link
I'm just in love with the SOUND and COLOR of the film. All those clanging and wheezing oil rigs and freighters, that industrial machinery interrupting everybody's conversations at every turn. That big belch of steam that erupts at the beginning of the film, when the two men are trying to have a conversation. The juxtaposition of the idyllic story of the tropical island that the Vitti character tells her son at the end of the movie, with the ugly gaseous drilling fields she leads him past. The grey colors of the cityscape (physically painted to look that way - no filters here). The fog.
― Reed Moore (diamond), Sunday, 12 September 2004 06:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Sunday, 12 September 2004 06:25 (nineteen years ago) link
His whole thing in that classic string of mid-60s films is basically good ol' bourgeois alienation and pretense -- how banal, right? -- but I think he's basically the master. His characters have a bit more depth and range of emotion than, say, the Bergman depressoids.
― Reed Moore (diamond), Sunday, 12 September 2004 06:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tonight at ten (kenan), Sunday, 12 September 2004 06:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Sunday, 12 September 2004 07:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― Reed Moore (diamond), Sunday, 12 September 2004 07:09 (nineteen years ago) link
i guess a semi-exception is in red desert, where vitti's character makes several abortive attempts to explain her feelings (to her husband's friend and to a stranger IIRC). these scenes were difficult for me. the monologues have the unconnected quality of genuine desperation and confusion, and i experience feelings similar to when a certain friend pours out her angst for the umpteenth time... i wanted to be sympathetic but i was more pitying and a bit fed-up. i say "semi-exception" because while the character is unusually talkative for antonioni, it's not clear she's communicating anything at all.
ok, so antonioni's "theme" is the difficulty of communication between human beings in the modern world. well that's how many people have chosen to read it, anyway. it's become cant. i think people see an antonioni movie now expecting it to be "about" this. but i suspect that this "reading" is just a reduction, just an attempt to fill in spaces left by the elliptical narration and presentation of character. a way of reducing the film to an assimilable statement abt modern life. when--as i noted above--for me antonioni films are more (to be vulgar) mood pieces than anything else. if such visual phenomena as characters bobbing in and out of frame in patterns that have no obvious thematic meaning but tons of graphic dynamism can be considered contributors to mood.
― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Sunday, 12 September 2004 07:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Sunday, 12 September 2004 07:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tonight at ten (kenan), Sunday, 12 September 2004 07:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tonight at ten (kenan), Sunday, 12 September 2004 07:27 (nineteen years ago) link
fellini is always pretty obvious. take la strada. please.
― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Sunday, 12 September 2004 07:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tonight at ten (kenan), Sunday, 12 September 2004 07:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tonight at ten (kenan), Sunday, 12 September 2004 07:33 (nineteen years ago) link