For the tenth edition of Film Art: An Introduction, David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson are partnering with Criterion to present Connect Film, an hour-long set of twenty videos on various aspects of filmmaking addressed in the now-classic textbook. Above: "Elliptical Editing in Vagabond (1985)." Kristin Thompson: "Most of the other Connect examples illustrate the chapters on the four types of film technique: mise-en-scene, cinematography, editing, and sound. There's also a short documentary about digital animation."
More books. You may remember that Dave Kehr is quite an admirer of the writing of Arlene Croce, a dance critic for the New Yorker from 1973 to 1998. She's also the author of The Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers Book and, in the new issue of the New York Review of Books, she reviews Todd Decker's Music Makes Me: Fred Astaire and Jazz and Kathleen Riley's The Astaires: Fred and Adele. As the Boston Globe's Mark Feeney writes,...
More books. You may remember that Dave Kehr is quite an admirer of the writing of Arlene Croce, a dance critic for the New Yorker from 1973 to 1998. She's also the author of The Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers Book and, in the new issue of the New York Review of Books, she reviews Todd Decker's Music Makes Me: Fred Astaire and Jazz and Kathleen Riley's The Astaires: Fred and Adele. As the Boston Globe's Mark Feeney writes,...
- 3/19/2012
- MUBI
Sofia Coppola's familiar tale of a lost and lonely Hollywood actor is brought to life by two superb central performances
Writing to his agent in 1936, F Scott Fitzgerald claimed that back in 1920 he'd attempted to persuade Dw Griffith, then the world's most famous movie director, that "people were so interested in Hollywood that there was money to be made in a picture about that and romance in the studio". Griffith, however, "was immediately contemptuous of it", and despite the success four years later of the comedy Merton of the Movies, Hollywood was reluctant to look seriously at itself. Well, things certainly began to change shortly thereafter. In 1937 there was A Star is Born, one of the most downbeat movies about success in Tinseltown, and then came several major novels, including Fitzgerald's unfinished and posthumously published The Last Tycoon and two highly critical works of fiction by friends of his:...
Writing to his agent in 1936, F Scott Fitzgerald claimed that back in 1920 he'd attempted to persuade Dw Griffith, then the world's most famous movie director, that "people were so interested in Hollywood that there was money to be made in a picture about that and romance in the studio". Griffith, however, "was immediately contemptuous of it", and despite the success four years later of the comedy Merton of the Movies, Hollywood was reluctant to look seriously at itself. Well, things certainly began to change shortly thereafter. In 1937 there was A Star is Born, one of the most downbeat movies about success in Tinseltown, and then came several major novels, including Fitzgerald's unfinished and posthumously published The Last Tycoon and two highly critical works of fiction by friends of his:...
- 12/12/2010
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
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