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Early American Cinema in Transition: Story, Style, and Filmmaking, 1907-1913 (Wisconsin Studies in Film, Kristin Thompson, Supervising Editor; David Bordwell and Vance Kepley, Jr., General Editors)
scanners (Free subscription) | yesterday
... about on this blog since it started in 2005, but more eloquently expressed than usual. And as David Bordwell writes (in response to this ) at his blog, film criticism is always dying, never quite dead. But, David says, criticism takes many forms (reviewing being only the most familiar). What matters is not so much taste, or passion, or even writing style -- but an ability to...
Self-Styled Siren (Free subscription) | 02/23/2010
... students, film bloggers of every stripe, preservationists like Eddie Muller, and scholars like David Bordwell write about preservation. Tinky Weisblat, a food blogger with an interest in film, showed up and turned in a great couple of posts. We had Dennis Nyback, who actually projected nitrate film, tell us about it. And we had people who were willing to open their wallets in these...
WEBS OF SIGNIFICANCE (Free subscription) | 02/21/2010
... admission receipts..." The above words are to found on the first page of the first chapter of David Bordwell' s Planet Hong Kong: Popular Cinema and the Art of Entertainment (Harvard University Press, 2000). And although they seem to belie it, their author did in fact realize full well even then -- and increasingly in the 21st century -- that "the Hong Kong...
Ferdy on Films, etc. (Free subscription) | 02/22/2010
... support of the National Film Preservation Foundation’s executive director Annette Melville and David Wells, who posted the great pictures and short films on the blogathon’s Facebook fan page. But the truth is as Ryan said: the entire film community embraced this cause. The blogathon ads Greg made were plastered all over the blogosphere, and we got shout-outs from James Wolcott at Vanity...
She Haunts the Roads (Free subscription) | 02/14/2010
“The classical narrative cinema – paradigmatically, studio feature filmmaking in Hollywood since 1920 – rests upon particular assumptions about narrative structure, cinematic style and spectatorial activity… the art cinema defines itself explicitly against the classical narrative mode.” - David Bordwell The mainstream Hollywood feature film and the art cinema...
scanners (Free subscription) | 02/11/2010
... style and technique.¹ André Bazin and the late Eric Rohmer, especially, championed the moral as well as aesthetic superiority of mise en scéne over montage, of Hawksian "invisible cutting" over Eisensteinian editing, and of deep-focus over a more selective, shallow depth-of-field. Bazin praised directors such as Orson Welles and William Wyler (in conducting with cinematographer Gregg Toland)...
scanners (Free subscription) | 02/03/2010
Traditionally (or, perhaps a better word is "statistically"), in order for film to win the Best Picture, it has to also receive director, screenplay, editing and acting nominations. Of the ten BP nominees this year, only "The Hurt Locker,"...