At Moving Image Source:
Robin Wood once wrote, "Any critic who is honest...is committed to self-exposure, a kind of public striptease." In keeping with that spirit...
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Thursday, June 17, 2010
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Reinterpreting the Gods
At Moving Image Source:
In the story of English-language film criticism, Robin Wood looms large. He was one of the first film critics to publish serious, book-length studies of individual directors, and also one of the first to get a job teaching at a university...
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In the story of English-language film criticism, Robin Wood looms large. He was one of the first film critics to publish serious, book-length studies of individual directors, and also one of the first to get a job teaching at a university...
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Thursday, June 10, 2010
Sturm und Drang und Irony
At The L Magazine dot com:
I don’t really know what they’re about,” my friend remarked, “I just know I really, really like them.” She was voicing a not uncommon reaction to the films and videos of Michael Robinson...
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I don’t really know what they’re about,” my friend remarked, “I just know I really, really like them.” She was voicing a not uncommon reaction to the films and videos of Michael Robinson...
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Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Bad Filmmaker Makes Bad Film About Good Filmmakers
At The L Magazine:
The American film avant-garde is in need of an approachable documentary that could make its staggering accomplishments more readily accessible to a wider audience. Or an erudite documentary that could spark discussion among those already in the know...
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The American film avant-garde is in need of an approachable documentary that could make its staggering accomplishments more readily accessible to a wider audience. Or an erudite documentary that could spark discussion among those already in the know...
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Friday, May 28, 2010
Enough with All the 60s Godard!
At The L Magazine dot com:
I have a friend who jokes, whenever another early Godard film is playing at Film Forum, “When is that series going to be over?”—as if Film Forum were running one continuous series of Godard films from the 60s...
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I have a friend who jokes, whenever another early Godard film is playing at Film Forum, “When is that series going to be over?”—as if Film Forum were running one continuous series of Godard films from the 60s...
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Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Dziga Amuck: Daffy Duck and the French New Wave's Marxist Spaghetti Western
At The L Magazine dot com:
Tonight, Light Industry is having a screening of the Dziga Vertov Group’s Wind from the East with Chuck Jones’s Duck Amuck—the kind of inspired curatorial pairing that sets the mind ablaze...
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Tonight, Light Industry is having a screening of the Dziga Vertov Group’s Wind from the East with Chuck Jones’s Duck Amuck—the kind of inspired curatorial pairing that sets the mind ablaze...
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Thursday, May 20, 2010
Call and Response: The Music Video and The Meme
At The L Magazine dot com:
The controversy surrounding M.I.A.'s "Born Free" video is a reminder that the music video is proving to be one of the most durable popular art forms of the late 20th/early 21st centuries. In 1985, J. Hoberman wrote, "The music video is the quintessential postmodern form—this week, anyway...
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The controversy surrounding M.I.A.'s "Born Free" video is a reminder that the music video is proving to be one of the most durable popular art forms of the late 20th/early 21st centuries. In 1985, J. Hoberman wrote, "The music video is the quintessential postmodern form—this week, anyway...
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