Posts tagged cinema
Fellini on Fellini, A Director's Notebook 1969
“Fellini discusses his views of making motion pictures and his unorthodox procedures. He seeks inspiration in various out of the way places. During this film viewers go with him to the Coliseum at night, on a subway ride past Roman ruins, to the Appian Way, to a slaughterhouse, and on a visit to Marcello Mastroianni’s house. Fellini also is seen in his own office interviewing a series of unusual characters seeking work or his help.” Via Cinephilia.
Classic and Contemporary Russian Cinema Cinema Free Online - Dangerous Minds reports that Russian studio Mosfilm is offering a wide selection of titles on their youtube channel, subtitled in English they’re sourced from high quality digital re-masters.
Jean-Luc Godard
Roger Ebert, Film Criticism Is Dying? Not Online
“The Web and HTML have been a godsend for film criticism. The best single film criticism site is arguably davidbordwell.net, featuring the Good Doctor Bordwell and his wife Kristin Thompson. Their names are known from their textbooks, studied in every film school in the world. But they are not users of the obscurantist gobbledygook employed by academics who, frankly, cannot really write. They communicate in prose as clear as running water. I suppose such textbook authors in their 60s are the poster children for Old Media, but Mr. Bordwell and Ms. Thompson are Exhibit A of Renewed Media. It is hard to simply write about the visual strategies of the Japanese master Yasujiro Ozu, so on a recent blog Mr. Bordwell used frame grabs to explain why Mr. Ozu is so deep while apparently so limited in his framing.”
Europa Film Archives - Free access to dozens of rare cinematic treasures from various European film archives and libraries in full screen mode. Collection includes various obscure animated films, erotic saucy shorts, documentaries, industrial experimental and more from 1895 - the present. Collection is vast and includes items like a, 1896 Fairground Programme from The George Williams Collection, a 1908 tram tour of Barcelona, and more. My only bitch is on the soundtracks, not sure how or why contemporary music was added to the silent shorts.
La Nouvelle Vague. Iconic New Wave Photographs by Raymond Cauchetier. At the James Hyman Gallery in London from July 14 to August 28 - From the exhibition;”François Truffaut and Denys Clerval with the camera crew on the set of Baiser volés (Stolen Kisses, dir. Truffaut, 1968) in Paris. Baiser voles (Stolen Kisses) continues the story of recurrent character Antoine Doinel, whom Truffaut had previously depicted in Les quatre cents coups (The 400 Blows) and the short film Antoine et Colette (Antoine and Colette).”
