Vinyl is heavy and Vitti is forever #15
Vinyl Is Heavy (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
by Ryland Walker Knight —Use two hands
Walker Knight
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Jeanne Dielman: Solitude's a fortress?
Vinyl Is Heavy (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
by Ryland Walker Knight —The lid! It took Danny some time to get me this copy of Criterion's beautiful new edition of Akerman's masterpiece, and then it took me a little time to get my image-essay together. But I have, now, with another assist from Danny on the gif-making, and you can take a look by clicking here . As I looked for these images these past weeks, I noticed how, for...
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Viewing Log #19: Sea salt swordfish [11/2/09 - 11/8/09]
Vinyl Is Heavy (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
by Ryland Walker Knight — Beaming and leaning Last Year at Marienbad [Alain Resnais, 1961] # I could watch this movie a million times. A lot funnier than I remembered, though I remembered it being funny, I think. Another reason to own a Blu-ray player, no doubt. I wrote a smarter, funnier response over here . City of Sadness [Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1989] Not quite the emotional experience...
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Alain à la recherche #1: Marienbad
Vinyl Is Heavy (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
by Ryland Walker Knight [The Resnais series playing at the PFA this month and next is part of a broader, traveling retrospective with a concurrent run in Chicago at the Gene Siskel Film Center and a proposed stop at the newly renovated Museum of the Moving Image in early 2010.] This was the third time I've seen Marienbad . As with the first, and the second, it feels like the first time...
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Convergence for how air can hang (11/4/09)
Vinyl Is Heavy (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
by Ryland Walker Knight —The thick of it rings a round ringing
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Represent Repertory #1: Fight sadness
Vinyl Is Heavy (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
by Ryland Walker Knight The day after I returned to the Bay Area, I saw the new PFA film calendar online and tweeted twice ( 1 , 2 ) about it. But that doesn't quite do justice to how cool a "Welcome Home!" these next two, final months of 2009 promise to be in my backyard cinematheque. A year ago I had quite a time covering the PFA, indulging in almost everything available by...
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Flare it, flip it, crack and burn it. More 'Formers.
Vinyl Is Heavy (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
by Ryland Walker Knight :: —Quick, erase it! Danny helped me out a ton with this latest image-essay, primarily by putting together some animated gifs. You can find the piece at The Auteurs Notebook . Danny asked me to make one for him after that "study in orange" I posted here earlier in the month as prelude to the home-format release of Bay's big bad sandbox of hate and...