(1967)

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Perfect movie
mrdonleone13 March 2019
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This movie is really perfect I mean that the actors in the movie and the soundtrack even though the soundtrack is the same song over and over again it Remains The Perfect movie you wonder what the movie is about two after a certain time but then you start to discover the year it is written by m in your face like a dog going to attack you on top of a hill and you say 1933 what could it be about and then you discover hey yes is the year that Hitler got elected and maybe this means something in my friend she said hey this might be that the war is beginning but that might very well not be it I don't believe it because I was no water every 1933 but that is because I studied history you know history is important to understand the present and the future coming fourth out of the history of the modern Daze man yes yes yes that is it and we needs to understand what this movie is about if you could think of it longer about all the possibilities we have in life if we go to the left turn to the right of the year the same music over again and we wonder the music that we hear does it represent life the way we live is all of a living the same way is everyday the same thing that we live it makes us Wonder yes yes but what a great movie I gave it a tan 10 because of the genius I would even give it to 9 and then maybe I changed my opinion into a 9 because it's a really great movie everybody should see if at 4 minutes in a day everybody can see it who doesn't have four minutes really that is the perfect the movie is it's minimal ization it is a great idea this year or so great yes and that is all I have to say about this movie
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'Historic' Documentary
Tornado_Sam6 July 2020
Joyce Wieland's "1933" (made in 1967, confusingly enough) appears to be a callback to the historic period of the 30's, in how it presents its single scene. This is done to create a certain atmosphere that creates context for the title, so that, as Wieland would have you think, the audience is led to believe they're watching a documentation made in 1933, rather than 1967. Yet, and despite what the viewer wants to think, the clip presented as a loop in this four-minute film is indeed a creation of the director's, and hence no such thing: to be truly made the year of the film's title, it would have to be a piece of found archive footage.

"1933" consists of a simple shot of a street with pedestrians and trucks moving by the camera. However, instead of making this scene a straightforward presentation as in Wieland's other film "Sailboat" (1967), the filmmaker instead speeds up the film (like the antique film projectors are notorious for doing) and turns it to sepia tones in order to create an atmosphere of the 1930's. The only available copy on YouTube has an added soundtrack with music, which further brings out the vibes of that period in history (even if it probably wasn't Wieland's original soundtrack). An interesting example of atmosphere in a film, if not an especially exceptional work otherwise.
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