re: Straubs. I actually don't see the fuss. From the half-dozen I've seen they seem very watchable and I can only imagine there being other reasons for the difficulty in presenting their work at the BFI. I've seen old arthouse 'classics' in old prints with four fucking people over the years. Seriously, what's the hold up?
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 5 May 2016 07:59 (seven years ago) link
I've been hot and cold on Costa, but i generally found Horse Money hypnotic on first viewing. I am gonna steer clear of the more "declamatory"/lengthy S-H films tho. That leaves enough for me to dip my toe.
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 5 May 2016 11:19 (seven years ago) link
S-H roundup, including link to Hoberman
https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-jean-marie-straub-and-daniele-huillet
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Friday, 6 May 2016 16:53 (seven years ago) link
and linking this Pinkerton piece on S-H because I walked out on History Lessons at the two-thirds mark last week, feeling Straub wouldn't mind. The Bach film was fine, though.
http://frieze.com/article/we-make-our-films-so-audiences-can-walk-out-them
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 19 May 2016 20:02 (seven years ago) link
Only the strong survive Straub-Huillet – and I wouldn’t have shirked the test for all the world.
#maMan
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 19 May 2016 20:14 (seven years ago) link
Although I was just talking abt my struggles with Brecht's prose on ILB.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 19 May 2016 20:15 (seven years ago) link
soliciting Straub / Huillet recomms for May (only seen Not Reconciled)
Read this as Straub / Huillet romcoms, which would be great.
Although, if anyone can recommend a good place to start with them, that would also be great.
― ed.b, Friday, 20 May 2016 19:18 (seven years ago) link
ed.b, if you still have access to a DVD machine capable of playing Region 2 DVDs, I would recommend this two disc set from New Wave films, which contains Straub-Huillet's biggest hit - Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach - and Sicilia!, which xyzzzz astutely recommended above.
Aren't all their films romances?
http://www.newwavefilms.co.uk/view-film-detail.html/?viewListing=Mjc=
― Chicamaw (Ward Fowler), Friday, 20 May 2016 19:36 (seven years ago) link
RIP Peter Hutton
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rM4V7lAy74M
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/27/movies/peter-hutton-filmmaker-with-austerely-romantic-worldview-dies-at-71.html
― helpless before THRILLARY (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 June 2016 16:47 (seven years ago) link
:(
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 28 June 2016 16:51 (seven years ago) link
Straub / Huillet retrospective at UC Berkeley, starts on Jan 26, until May 2017
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/program/not-reconciled-cinema-straub-huillet
― sbahnhof, Monday, 2 January 2017 05:41 (seven years ago) link
coming to America
https://thefilmstage.com/news/grasshopper-film-to-release-catalogue-of-legendary-filmmaking-duo-jean-marie-straub-and-daniele-huillet/
http://grasshopperfilm.com/film/straub-huillet-collection/
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 19:33 (six years ago) link
Yvonne Rainer recommendations?
https://www.filmlinc.org/series/talking-pictures-the-cinema-of-yvonne-rainer/#films
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 19 July 2017 19:53 (six years ago) link
Journey from Berlin is all I've seen - can't remember much about it, except thinking it was good.
Would so see Madame X. Ulrike Ottinger is really good.
Have fun!
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 19 July 2017 21:15 (six years ago) link
obit roundup for Paul Clipson
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/5371-the-daily-paul-clipson-1965-2018
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 18:24 (six years ago) link
RIP Jonas Mekas
http://gothamist.com/2019/01/23/jonas_mekas_avant-garde_film_auteur.php
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 17:15 (five years ago) link
re: the straub/huillet discussion upthread, full retro happening in london over the next three months: https://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/en/ver.cfm?fuseaction=events.detail&event_id=21471962&
― devvvine, Saturday, 2 March 2019 08:23 (five years ago) link
RIP Barbara Hammer
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/6250-barbara-hammer-s-legacy
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 18 March 2019 16:21 (five years ago) link
word seems to be spreading that straub has passed
― devvvine, Sunday, 20 November 2022 11:41 (one year ago) link
:-(
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 20 November 2022 12:59 (one year ago) link
Straub and Godard In the same year, damm. And Rest in Provocation.
― Ward Fowler, Sunday, 20 November 2022 14:00 (one year ago) link
RIP. I saw From the Cloud the the Resistance, Antigone and Machorka-Muff just this year. All amazing, and the first is so singular and strange.
― glumdalclitch, Sunday, 20 November 2022 15:58 (one year ago) link
Here's a lovely curated playlist of shorts:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5xOztE613KMOvfW_L5zaa6j3cdLUwO4c
― glumdalclitch, Sunday, 20 November 2022 16:07 (one year ago) link
I have more vivid memories of reading Richard Roud's Straub book than the films themselves, intriguing though they were.I should get around to watching Sicilia!, which James Quant of TIFF was always talking up.
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 21 November 2022 03:56 (one year ago) link
couple of days left to catch two, imo, unmissable online retrospectives of female experiemntal filmmakers:
ellie epp on ultra dogme: https://ultradogme.com/2023/08/18/ellie-epp/
jun kurosawa on equinox: https://equinox.film
― devvvine, Wednesday, 30 August 2023 12:24 (six months ago) link
👍
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 30 August 2023 12:55 (six months ago) link