tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35348238.post3176960702737888139..comments2024-03-28T11:25:51.846+01:00Comments on Unspoken Cinema: Slow films, easy life (Sight&Sound)BenoitRouillyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13525748892885946674noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35348238.post-62179928463686805322012-03-16T10:46:19.841+01:002012-03-16T10:46:19.841+01:00Nick James : "[..] In terms of time and conte...Nick James : "[..] In terms of time and contemplation maybe we're all losing something we'll end up missing in the long run."<br /><br />Elegy for Analogue. Editorial (<i>Sight and Sound</i>; April 2012)HarryTuttlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10721542203087536185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35348238.post-68786114513976005552011-11-30T00:29:25.478+01:002011-11-30T00:29:25.478+01:00"Critics are suspicious of a primarily, but n..."Critics are suspicious of a primarily, but not exclusively Hollywood-influenced popular cinema that seems committed to producing increasing numbers of films that prioritise both spectacle over substance, and high-speed violence without any ethical perspective of the consequences to the human body, in an attempt to make ever increasing amounts of money. According to this perspective, slow, HarryTuttlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10721542203087536185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35348238.post-45563734369883458372011-03-09T13:38:46.642+01:002011-03-09T13:38:46.642+01:00Appeal to authority (Fallacy)<a href="http://www.fallacyfiles.org/authorit.html" rel="nofollow">Appeal to authority (Fallacy)</a>HarryTuttlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10721542203087536185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35348238.post-48085747602207743182011-03-09T12:59:25.803+01:002011-03-09T12:59:25.803+01:00Just happened upon this doctrinaire pronouncing-fr...Just happened upon this doctrinaire pronouncing-from-on-high ... heavens, I bet you're a laugh at dinner parties, mate. Though somehow, I rather suspect you're not invited to many ...<br /><br />For what it's worth, I happen to agree with James - who never denied that some great works are born out of the very conditions you celebrate; but merely noted that the style has ossified into Shane Danielsenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04195822939647892472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35348238.post-61029943195114229622011-03-09T12:39:40.414+01:002011-03-09T12:39:40.414+01:00I don't know where the author of this blog com...I don't know where the author of this blog comes from but just in case - does he know it is the editor of one of the most respectable film magazines in the Western world he is talking about? It is not "banter", but his vast experience in the industry he is drawing upon, smth the author of this post would never be able to achieve. And the never-ending protestant lament on "it&#Livahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16067040984422002995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35348238.post-41809303401502691712011-01-17T15:14:42.731+01:002011-01-17T15:14:42.731+01:00Zach Campbell : "For I have also sat in on th...Zach Campbell : "For I have also sat in on the contemplative films of authors I've loved, as with Tsai Ming-liang in Goodbye Dragon Inn, or Claire Denis with L'Intrus, and thought to myself: 'This doesn't seem rich, heady, risk-taking, or beautiful so much as it seems a bit stale, predictable, hitting only pre-approved notes.' I will go to the mat, anytime, for Tsai and HarryTuttlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10721542203087536185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35348238.post-4255097821383139172011-01-07T08:20:43.018+01:002011-01-07T08:20:43.018+01:00Typical speech of a demagogue. I can tell you don&...Typical speech of a demagogue. I can tell you don't know much about "Art" if you think that the greatest artists in History have made their masterpieces to meet the current needs of their contemporary demographics.<br />Making good art isn't about ending up on the best-sellers list of commercial books, or the billboard chart of most popular songs... <br />Manet was rejected whenHarryTuttlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10721542203087536185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35348238.post-89318276299415603622011-01-07T03:46:25.359+01:002011-01-07T03:46:25.359+01:00The emperor has no clothes.
To begin with, if you...The emperor has no clothes.<br /><br />To begin with, if you make "art" solely for yourself, it ain't. Art, that is. It is to art as masturbation is to actual sex. It's narcissism and arrogance.<br /><br />Art is a collaborative process between creator and audience; it's a conversation. To have a conversation, you must:<br /><br />a) speak the same language, and<br />b) S.M. Stirlinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18091131550027851275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35348238.post-22213733138049285042010-12-28T19:12:15.579+01:002010-12-28T19:12:15.579+01:00Jonathan Romney : "In recent issues of this m...Jonathan Romney : "In recent issues of this magazine, Nick James has commented sceptically on the reverence accorded tto such cinema, and on the assumption - not uncommon on the festival circuit - that cinephilia is synonymous with a commitment to it. True, staking one's colours to austere cinema can allow critics to flaunt their aesthetic and moral seriousness. But it is also HarryTuttlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10721542203087536185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35348238.post-36728179255286910142010-09-16T22:43:55.537+02:002010-09-16T22:43:55.537+02:00Dostoyevsky had talent to begin with. Imposing res...Dostoyevsky had talent to begin with. Imposing restrictions on talent-less people will never give you great art... It's not the restriction itself that produces greatness. It's the artist him/herself, regardless for any restrictions imposed.<br /><br />Do you think the reason Tarkovsky or Tarr are better than other lesser "slow films" is because they were formated/restricted by HarryTuttlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10721542203087536185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35348238.post-21589832023740050832010-09-16T18:40:16.562+02:002010-09-16T18:40:16.562+02:00Also , the seeming contempt for some cine-literate...Also , the seeming contempt for some cine-literate guys for even mainstream art films like "There will be blood " or David Fincher's work is of no use for the future of cinema I think ,I think that sometimes making some kind of restrictions imposed on the filmmaker in order not to indulge too much in his own inflated sense of his talents , even Doestoevsky has written some of his Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09179687563562733092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35348238.post-5610384246707257612010-09-16T18:32:56.696+02:002010-09-16T18:32:56.696+02:00Actually ,I was rather irritated of the mocking at...Actually ,I was rather irritated of the mocking attitude of the very few ( 6 or 7 persons ) who was attending the screening with me ( a promotional DVD screening at Alexandria Film Fest. ) , I felt irritated not because I liked the film ( It actually didn't register for me ,which was a response I had for many so called "contemplative films " before , but I when I came to revisit Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09179687563562733092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35348238.post-84103732685865580392010-09-16T17:08:43.791+02:002010-09-16T17:08:43.791+02:00Defending contemplative cinema that doesn't be...Defending contemplative cinema that doesn't beg the spectator to be entertained is more "conformist" than to long for the good old films that used to "reward" the spectator for his/her patience after a slow scene with a "punchy scene"?<br /><br />In our era, doing "narrative cinema" is being conformist. Not the other way round. Did you read the HarryTuttlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10721542203087536185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35348238.post-74661080833506918172010-09-16T03:43:45.746+02:002010-09-16T03:43:45.746+02:00I have just seen the film that initiated that disc...I have just seen the film that initiated that discussion at that sigh't and sound issue today , the Turkish film "Honey" that winner of this year's Berlin Golden Bear , I find the passage to be truly representative of what i concluded while seeing the film , I am avid fan of most of the films of Tarkovsky , Tarr , Ceylan ,etc... , but for example , when u have that loooooong Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09179687563562733092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35348238.post-49944210807312767412010-06-13T20:41:15.803+02:002010-06-13T20:41:15.803+02:00"Her genius, with her slow, steady, held fram..."Her genius, with her slow, steady, held frames, is to allow the viewer to dream the Fernsehturm; to enter it without hurry, without expectation, and to accept, as we do in a dream, a different experience of time, and a different relationship to everyday objects. [..] Time slows, then slips its loop altogether. The restaurant revolves, but we are outside of time - observers in space, with a HarryTuttlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10721542203087536185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35348238.post-43633275360323364272010-05-14T07:27:11.132+02:002010-05-14T07:27:11.132+02:00Yeah I wholeheartedly agree with you there. It is ...Yeah I wholeheartedly agree with you there. It is depressing to see that even the creators themselves, the big players of the industry, the educators are thus disillusioned and populist. <br />I've learnt over the years that filmmakers are not necessarily the best spokespersons of cinema in general.<br /><br />Besides, art cinema doesn't have to be distributed, to foster a large audience.HarryTuttlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10721542203087536185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35348238.post-22248830245448472602010-05-12T20:52:37.706+02:002010-05-12T20:52:37.706+02:00This reminds me a recent conversation I've had...This reminds me a recent conversation I've had with a college professor.<br />Long Story Short: I'm in a course called artistic studies, and we do study Cinema. We the students visited a production studio and met the persons behind the project. They're established and make movies with a certain regularity - and quality. The persons behind the project said to us that is impossible to Surrealist Cientisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05279524767802282273noreply@blogger.com