tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580771530471531574.post2671822969370243787..comments2023-07-12T09:16:45.437-04:00Comments on The Cinema: Language and ImagesTed Pigeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04789041055263853568noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580771530471531574.post-13733703653361592862007-08-15T11:55:00.000-04:002007-08-15T11:55:00.000-04:00I've always wondered if you can tell by Woody Alle...I've always wondered if you can tell by Woody Allen's expression at the end of <B>Hannah and Her Sisters</B> what his character makes of the announcement of Dianne Wiest's pregnancy. Does he think it's a miracle, since he had been declared sterile? Does he think she's cheating on him or does he just not care and is delighted no matter what the truth is?Edward Copelandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12463676135131274426noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580771530471531574.post-75205475066878872702007-08-14T21:23:00.000-04:002007-08-14T21:23:00.000-04:00Sort of channels what really struck me with my las...Sort of channels what really struck me with my last few "experiences" in DV/HD--Miami Vice, The New World, and of course, Inland Empire. I know Lynch has gushed about how DV has overwhelmed him with an experience of rejuvenation and I recall Thoret's SoS article where he talked about how Mann's film captured "A flash of lightning that stripes the sky, a palm tree that bends under the weight of the wind and an incandescent night that Mann’s camera relentlessly pursues convey the feeling of a hallucinatory film where man and nature dissolve in each other, quivering with the same tragic breath." I think some of our greatest contemporary filmmakers are allowing themselves to experience a renaissance of expressionist malleability because the medium as opposed to being exposed (fuck off, Greenaway) in a sense of operatic contingency and encompassment is actually being liberated of such a once-inevitable artificiality. It's kind of sexy, if you know what I mean. Ah...sort of rambling.<BR/><BR/>Anyway, that last paragraph--oh, man--post that to some book lovers and, whew, put on some "Street Fighting Man"...well, you get the point. <BR/><BR/>"Indeed, all truly meaningful speech is inherently creative, using established words in ways they have never quite been used before, and thus altering, ever so slightly, the whole webwork of the language."<BR/><BR/>The only part I sort of disagree on (gah, the whole "truly" throws it off)Austintationhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08852471677134619719noreply@blogger.com