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| bartist |
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Quote: I may be confusing terms here. The whole stadium sequence is one uninterrupted take that apparently was a logistical nightmare and I have no idea how it was filmed. It and the one in Atonement are both about five minutes long. The famous tracking shot in Goodfellas is three minutes long, while the one that opens The Player is almost eight minutes long, and the one that opens Russian Ark is 96 minutes long .
Heh! Goodfellas is the one that stands out, for me. Didn't pull me out of the film or seem stunt-like.
Found Rope funny, but slight. Stagey stuff rarely excites me in a film. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 9:20 am |
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Japanese directors like Ozu and Mizoguchi tended to use very long takes by American standards. Ozu also liked to use a stationary camera.
I wonder how long is the opening shot in Play Time? |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 7:43 pm |
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Syd, you were thinking about South American films.
Here are a few suggestions:
La Cienaga -- Argentinian drama
Brazil: Vidas Secas, Central Station, City of God, Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands, Bye Bye Brazil
God and the Devil in Land of Sun; Black God White Devil
Venezuela - Araya a salt marsh doc.
Colombia - Wind Journeys
Chile: The Battle of Chile doc about the events leading up to the Pinochet coup
Cuba(?): Memories of Underdevelopment (Cuban New Wave); I Am Cuba
I haven't seen Macunaima or Vidas Secas. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Thu May 03, 2012 11:43 am |
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| Fans of Mad Men may be seduced (as I was) by the presence of Jon Hamm into watching a dreary exercise in unadulterated grimness called Stolen. Resist the urge. Hamm is just fine as a detective whose son has been missing for nine years and starts investigating a cold case involving a child's death some 50 years ago, but the movie is just sad, sad, sad from beginning to end. No. |
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| Ghulam |
| Posted: Thu May 03, 2012 9:43 pm |
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| Spielberg's War Horse is a crushing bore. |
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| whiskeypriest |
| Posted: Fri May 04, 2012 8:26 am |
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Ghulam wrote: Spielberg's War Horse is a crushing bore. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Fri May 04, 2012 8:47 am |
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I considered responding, but when opinions are that far apart, there's not much to say. If someone says they love The English Patient I'm not going to succeed in showing them why they should hate it. Likewise here, in the opposite direction.
Would like to know, however, whether Ghulam's "crushing" rather than the more common "crashing" bore comment was a neologism or just a typo. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Fri May 04, 2012 9:03 am |
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| It might not be that the neo, as gisms go - I've heard "crushing bore" used, with the connotation that it was so dull as to crush the spirit. |
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| Ghulam |
| Posted: Fri May 04, 2012 2:52 pm |
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billyweeds wrote:
Would like to know, however, whether Ghulam's "crushing" rather than the more common "crashing" bore comment was a neologism or just a typo.
"Crushing bore" produced about 33,500,000 results on Google. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Fri May 04, 2012 4:59 pm |
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And the definition was: Spielberg's War Horse. 
I haven't seen the movie, but as i concluded a long time ago (and I'm pretty sure I commented here about it), Spielberg is an excellent cinematic technician but he is not an artist as far as story telling goes. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Fri May 04, 2012 5:04 pm |
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| Maybe this is a British rather than an American saying. As a Canadian I always heard the term "crushing bore". I know I've heard crashing bore, but it always seemed strange to me. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Fri May 04, 2012 5:14 pm |
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| I knew Spielberg had two films out in 2011. And I kept thinking that Hugo was a Spielberg film, even after I saw it. I'm not interested in War Horse. And whatever happened to TinTin? Seemed to disappear without much interest. Did anyone see that? |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Fri May 04, 2012 9:35 pm |
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| I saw Tintin in 3D and enjoyed it. Nothing great, but fun. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Fri May 04, 2012 10:05 pm |
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| I liked Tintin quite a bit. |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Sat May 05, 2012 9:31 am |
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Watched The Secret in their Eyes again and found it better on second viewing. And, yes, I have no freaking idea how they shot that stadium scene, unless cameramen are now equipped with wings or antigravity sleds.
Sandoval is a very funny character, from his unlikely fake departments when he answers the phone to his various misadventures with Benjamin. Syd's review should prompt a re-viewing of this fine movie, which works as a buddy story, a romance, a legal thriller, and an existential parable. Four for the price of one. |
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