November 2011
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“The Birth of a Nation demands to be seen and discussed — you can’t understand...”
– Dave Kehr
Nov 28th
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Arlo Guthrie performing Alice’s Restaurant (2005), with clips from the movie (1969)
Nov 24th
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Nov 23rd
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Did timely films, like Alfred Hitchcock’s “Foreign Correspondent” (1940), prepare Americans for war?
Nov 21st
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“The Tree of Life” (2011) is like a essay on biology photographed by a poet. Watch it in high-definition, if you watch it at all.
Nov 16th
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A delightful example why you cannot shoot too much footage: ”Bust Your Knee Caps” by Pomplamoose
Nov 9th
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Is Kevin Smith’s “Red State” (2011) fundamentally an action movie, horror flick, or parable?
Nov 7th
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Nov 6th
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supercut →
noun \ˈsü-pər-kət\ — A fast-paced montage of short video clips that obsessively isolates a single element from its source, usually a word, phrase, or cliche from film and TV. Supercut.org collects every known example of the video remix meme.
Nov 4th
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“montage is the nerve of cinema…. to determine the nature of montage is to...”
– Sergei Eisenstein
Nov 4th
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David Lynch’s ”Blue Velvet“(1986) is a small town windswept with the seeds of “Twin Peaks” (1990).
Nov 3rd