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Bio Peek : Ingmar Bergman

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:53:27 GMT

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Bergman stormed both the Academy Awards ceremonies and world's top film festivals with each of his films year after year. Three of his films won the Oscars for the Best Foreign Films - Virgin Spring in 1961, Through A Glass Darkly in 1962, and Fanny and Alexander in 1984. He was honoured with the Irving Thalberg Memorial Award by the Academy in 1971. But, ask any Film and Television Institute graduate and he would swear by the magic of Bergman in films like Summer with Monika (1953), Smiles of a Summer Night (1955), The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries (1957) Persona (1966), Cries and Whispers (1973), Autumn Sonata ( 1978). He directed a total of 62 films and 170 plays, giving world cinema actors like Liv Ullman, Max von Sydow.

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RIP: film director Michelangelo Antonioni

Wed, 01 Aug 2007 15:29:41 GMT

clipped by: Mohir
clipper's remarks: 2 great directors on the same day

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RIP: film director Michelangelo Antonioni

The 94-year-old director died in Rome on the same day as Ingmar Bergman:

Tall, cerebral and resolutely serious, Mr. Antonioni harkens back to a time in the middle of the last century when cinema-going was an intellectual pursuit, when purposely opaque passages in famously difficult films spurred long nights of smoky argument at sidewalk cafes, and when fashionable directors like Mr. Antonioni, Alain Resnais and Jean-Luc Godard were chased down the Cannes waterfront by camera-wielding cineastes demanding to know what on earth they meant by their latest outrage.

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Tarkovsky wiki : join & contribute!

Sat, 14 Jul 2007 19:50:36 GMT

clipped by: anatolant
clipper's remarks: new addition to Tarkovsky Pages @ http://film.vtheatre.net/tarkovsky.html

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Tarkovsky 75
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tarkovsky : time-pressure

Sat, 14 Jul 2007 18:12:57 GMT

clipped by: anatolant
clipper's remarks: deleuzian POV? film.vtheatre.net/tarkovsky.html

Clip Source: www.horschamp.qc.ca

Tarkovsky explains that editing cannot be the dominant structural element of a film, as the protagonists of Soviet montage cinema (Kuleshov and Eisenstein) maintained in the 1920’s. The film image comes into being during shooting, and exists within the frame. As Donato Totaro explains, editing brings together shots which are already filled with time (1992, 24). The function of editing is to organize the time-images into a wave structure inherent to film, that is, the time-pressure wave. Tarkovsky’s concept of time-pressure is like a meteorological time-front that propagates from shot-to-shot and throughout the film, or a cardiopulmonary time-pulse that thrust against the arterial walls of the scenes, bringing temporal oxygenation to the shots and overall meaning to the film-form.

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blogs'07

Mon, 18 Jun 2007 17:06:15 GMT

clipped by: anatolant
clipper's remarks: anatolant.tumblr.com -- Anatoly's all blogs

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Wings of Desire..Wim Wenders a film genius..

Wed, 13 Jun 2007 23:31:12 GMT

clipped by: TJColatrella
clipper's remarks: I loved this film by Wim Wenders, who also did Paris Texas, and The American Friend with Dennis Hooper, and Ry Cooder's the Bela Vista Social Club the rebirth of Cubano, club music..Wender's short for The PBS Blues series was also genius and on a favorite of mine the great blessed Blind Willie Johnson..

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Tags: wim wenders, film, art, movies, peter falk, ry cooder, love, photography, angels

8 1/2 notes...

Thu, 29 Mar 2007 14:41:26 GMT

clipped by: sting_crawler
clipper's remarks: This could be a good reminder for all of us about life!

Clip Source: en.wikipedia.org

During production, Fellini handwrote a note to himself and attached it to the camera below the viewfinder so that he would constantly see it when filming. It stated, "Ricordati che è un film comico." ("Remember, this is a comedy.").

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Akira Kurosawa's Dreams - 8 Short Films

Sat, 24 Mar 2007 01:45:27 GMT

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Akira Kurosawa's Dreams consists of eight short films based on actual dreams of the director:

"Sunshine Through the Rain," features a young boy sneaking off into the forest on a rainy day to watch a procession of enchanted foxes. [WATCH!]

The Peach Orchard," a slightly older boy witnesses tree spirits performing a delicate dance. [WATCH! Part 1 ~ Part 2]

Weary travelers in "The Blizzard" face the elemental wrath of a snow enchantress. [WATCH! Part 1 ~ Part 2]

The Tunnel" finds a military officer haunted by the ghosts of his dead regiment. [WATCH! Part 1 ~ Part 2]

"Crows," an art aficionado literally walks into the paintings of Vincent Van Gogh (played by Martin Scorsese). [WATCH! Part 1 ~ Part 2]

"Mount Fuji in Red" is a fantastical cautionary tale about the hazards of nuclear power. [WATCH!]

"The Weeping Demon" portrays a similar story. [WATCH! Part 1 | Part 2]

"Village of the Watermills" brings the film to a quiet, pastoral end. [WATCH! Part 1 | Part 2]

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Buddhists, Existentialists and Situationists: Waking up in Waking Life

Thu, 28 Dec 2006 19:33:58 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "Richard Linklater's 2002 film Waking Life is all about dreaming, and how we can sometimes control our dreams when they're lucid. Yet it's also about some broad philosophical issues, including one of the oldest philosophical conundrums, the distinction between appearance and reality."

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This whole idea of "waking up" is a key idea in a number of philosophies explored in the film. In ancient Eastern philosophy - the Indian Vedanta philosophy of the Upanishads, Taoism, and Buddhism - the key to waking up is Enlightenment and a correct understanding of the relation of the self to the external world. In existentialism, we have to wake up to our personal freedom and our responsibility for creating our own selves and lives. And in the situationism of Guy Debord and others, we have to wake up from the sugar-coated spell of consumer society.

Our first wake up call is that from attachment to the past, to the ego as an individual and unconnected entity, and to material things over the spiritual unity of the universe. This call awakens us to our connection to everything around us, and to a meaningful life.⁽¹⁾

The second wake up call in Waking Life comes from existentialism, especially Jean-Paul Sartre's notions that we are condemned to be free, and that if we make excuses for our not having this freedom, we are living in bad faith. Sartre distinguished in-itself physical being, like that of rocks, which have no consciousness and thus no freedom, from for-itself conscious being, which we human beings have. As in-itself beings, we are fundamentally free to make our own choices, to chart our own course in life. Brute matter may frustrate our plans, yet we always have a choice. We are thrown into this world, and it's up to us to do the best job we can at creating our selves, much as an artist strives to paint an evocative painting, or a sculptor chisels away at a mass of rock to create a compelling statue.

Tags: buddhism, existentialism, situationalism, lucid dreams, dreaming, film

Art or Porn: Can you tell the difference?

Wed, 13 Sep 2006 16:00:07 GMT

clipped by: haraya
clipper's remarks: I correctly answered 7 out of 10. That'll do, I guess.

More film quizzes can be found here: http://film.guardian.co.uk/games/ This site is so much fun!

Clip Source: film.guardian.co.uk

The Good Old Naughty Days is a smorgasbord of amateur porn from cinema's infancy. But can you tell it apart from the highest expressions of the seventh art? Have a look at these ten pictures, and for each case answer one simple question: art, or porn?

		1. A young filly, glimpsed in her undies through the keyhole. Is it art (Claude Chabrol's 1959 À Double Tour)? Or porn?

			Porn
			Art

		2. More through-the-keyhole fun. Is it art (Jacques Tati's 1953 film M Hulot's Holiday)? Or porn?

			Porn
			Art

		3. A convivial scene, and no mistake. Again: art (Buster Keaton's Our Hospitality, 1923)? Or porn?

			Art
			Porn

		4. A glimpse of stocking. Is it art (Marlene Dietrich in 1930's The Blue Angel)? Or porn?

			Art
			Porn

		5. Bad habits. Art (Audrey Hepburn and Peggy Ashcroft in The Nun's Story, 1959)? Or porn?

			Art
			Porn

		6. Can this sort of thing really be art (Kurosawa's Scandal, 1950)? Or is it porn?

			Porn
			Art

		7. Is this saucy young lady the silver screen icon Louise Brooks? Or is this just yet more porn?

			Porn
			Art

		8. Do you recognise this lady as the great comic actor of silent cinema Mabel Normand? Or is she a dilettante of the early porn scene?

			Art
			Porn

		9. Nothing too scandalous here ... yet. Is this about to degenerate into art (Pandora's Box, 1929)? Or porn?

			Porn
			Art

		10. A femme-bot with pointy conical breasts. Art (Fritz Lang's Metropolis, 1926)? Or porn?

			Art
			Porn

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History of Cinema by Decade

Fri, 31 Mar 2006 00:09:15 GMT

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Clip Source: www.filmsite.org

The History of Motion Pictures
- By Decade -

Pre-1920s Film History

Early Cinematic Origins, the Infancy of Film

1920s Film History

The Pre-Talkies and Silent Era

1930s Film History

The Talkies, the Growth of the Studios and 'The Golden Age of Hollywood'

1940s Film History

The War and Post-War Years, the Beginnings of Film Noir

1950s Film History

The Cold War and Post-Classical Era, the Era of Epic Films and the Threat of Television

1960s Film History

The End of the Hollywood Studio System, and the Era of Independent, Underground Cinema

1970s Film History

The Last Golden Age of American Cinema (the American "New Wave"), and the Advent of the Block-buster Film

1980s Film History

Teen-Oriented Angst Films, and the Dawn of the Sequel, with More Blockbusters

1990s Film History

The Era of Mainstream Films and Alternative or Independent ("Indie") Cinema; and the Rise of Computer-Generated Films; also the Decade of Remakes, Re-releases, and More Sequels

2000s Films

The New Millenium, an Age of Advanced Special Effects, and the Search for the Perfect Blockbuster

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