The first establishing shot in the film follows a subjective shot, consistent with Bergman form that emphasizes subjective experience even while thematically concerned with big ideas like God. Persons, characters,…
Something must be a “satire” if it’s somewhere between difficult and impossible to suspend disbelief. (This is the case with that great satire, Dr. Strangelove.) With Her, the futuristic trajectory of where…
Again, von Trier seems intent on punishing a women, although this is no secret to him or anyone else. But much more than Dogville or Melancholia, Dancer in the Dark seems so intent on…
The diegesis is overtly artificial, with no pretense at realism but does something like “cinemize” the stage. Performance and mise-en-scene are highlighted; lighting, for example, changes when the narration announces…
Easily among the slowest of them all. Tarkovsky’s films are few, and it’s fairly easy to mark out their shared formal features and formal progress. As long as Andrei Rublev is, its…
In Praise of Slowness: How a Worldwide Movement is Challenging the Cult of Speed, Carl Honoré This is a journalistic, well, journey along the lines of Joshua Foer’s Moonwalking With Einstein.…
Cornelia Klecker. “Mind-Tricking Narratives: Between Classical and Art-Cinema Narration.” Poetics Today, Vol. 34, No. 1/2 (Spring/Summer 2013): 119-146. For my purposes, I’ll skip to the parts that relate to art cinema.…
Chuu, Sharon et al. “Exploring Art Film Audiences: A Marketing Analysis.” Journal of Promotion Management Vol. 15, No. 1/2 (2009): 212-228. The study reveals no real surprises, mainly demonstrating by quantitative…
“Doing time: ‘slow cinema’ at the AV Festival,” Henry K. Miller, BFI Sight & Sound Miller differentiates these films (also from the titular AV Festival) from those of Hitchcock right…
“‘Slow cinema’ fights back against Bourne’s supremacy,” Sukhdev Sandhu, The Guardian Essay/report has to do with the AV Festival 12, a film festival in the UK that touts films that are…
The Death of Classical Cinema: Hitchcock, Lang, Minnelli, by Joe McElhaney McElhaney doesn’t really posit a definitive death of classical cinema (one can just imagine how the publishers wanted this…
“In the art cinema, for instance, shifts between ‘objective’ action and ‘subjective’ moments are often not signaled by the narration. This creates a suppressed gap which we retrospectively try to…
Precious Bodily Fluids 