Analysis & Commentary and Bela Tarr Rick on 26 Sep 2007
I must admit, I’m a sucker for a long take . . . I love the long crane shot that opens The Player, and that masterful Steadycam that follows Ray Liotta through the bar in Goodfellas. The opening shot of Werckmeister Harmonies is like that, it’s one long take, ten minutes twenty seconds, to be [...]
Review Rick on 13 Sep 2007
Songlian’s world is all angles, all carved space. She exists caged, framed by doorways and courtyard walls. She has been de-classed by the death of her tea-merchant father, sold into marriage by her step-mother. She is fourth mistress, the latest, youngest and prettiest wife of a powerful master.
We are drawn into this world, slowly and [...]
Analysis & Commentary Rick on 11 Sep 2007
If you want to buy Dog the Bounty Hunter a T-shirt, don’t get one with a chicken or a dragon or some other animal on it. The only likenesses he’ll wear on his shirt are of Jesus or Harley Davidsons.
And that–but of course!–pretty much describes Dog’s aesthetics, Jesus and Harleys (presumably in that order, because [...]
Analysis & Commentary Rick on 05 Sep 2007
How come in this record Hollywood Summer I can’t find two films I’d watch again? Rhetorical question, of course . . . But finally, some interesting-looking Hollywood product on the horizon, including at least two westerns: James Mangold’s 3:10 to Yuma and Andrew Dominik’s The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.
3:10 to [...]
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