Daniel Smith Posted January 7, 2008 Share Posted January 7, 2008 Hi. I'm writing up a simple 1000 word report based on La Haine. Here is the project brief: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bas/file.php.doc I'm not asking anyone to do it for me or anything all I'm asking for is perhaps some usefull sources of information for listing. Be it from DVD's, web sites, books or whatever. Reason being I have to write this in the typical degree style format (listing all references) The problem I have is that I learnt everything about this film from my teacher back in college. I don't know of any good sources. (And I can't go listing my teacher 20 different times..) Any help with this will be appreciated. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonathan Bowerbank Posted January 7, 2008 Share Posted January 7, 2008 Oh wow, I didn't even realize it was out on Criterion DVD...sweeeeeet I saw this film a couple years after it was made, and it had quite an effect on me as a youngin'. It really appealed to my generation and demographic of the time, musically and in the film references it made (the obvious one being "Taxi Driver"). And coming off of the "new generation" in filmmaking (ie Tarantino among others) it fit right in, even though it was a French product. Looks like I'll be Netflixing this one :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Bill Totolo Posted January 8, 2008 Premium Member Share Posted January 8, 2008 Funny, just watched this a couple times over the weekend. The commentary is very detailed, perhaps you can reference that and the films it borrows from? Obvious influences are anything in the Spike Lee catalogue as well as Scorcese's "Mean Streets". Jodie Foster does a lengthy introduction on the Criterion disc where she drops a lot of film references. I'm sure you can get some mileage out of that. Post that report when you're done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Baker Posted January 8, 2008 Share Posted January 8, 2008 You'll have no problem finding bibliography (and interesting reads) on this film. There's been quite a bit written on it. Head down to the school library and start searching under La Haine, Mathieu Kassovitz, and banlieue. I know you'll come up with more than you need and some new ideas. I looked at your brief and it appears you have to do both a historical context and media context. Start here: Oxford Journal of French Studies Vol. 61 No. 4 Wasn't La Haine shown at the Tate Modern this summer? Check what Paul Goodwin has written (Goldsmiths) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Hawkins Posted January 8, 2008 Share Posted January 8, 2008 Go to the BFI library in Tottenham Court Road - they've got loads of books and film magazines from years back, just tell the person at the desk what film you're looking for and they'll print you out a list of everything they have on that film - Got me through my degree! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Smith Posted January 10, 2008 Author Share Posted January 10, 2008 Thanks. I'll check out that BFI library at some point... shame I couldn't for this (not in London right now) but it sounds interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krystian Ramlogan Posted January 13, 2008 Share Posted January 13, 2008 La Haine. Studied that film for my Film Directing Class. I found some influences by Scorcese, and interestingly enough at the time, Raging Bull. Perhaps it was the Cinematography, particularly the B&W, use of Space, Composition, and the long take. Great Film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sinisa.kukic Posted February 9, 2008 Share Posted February 9, 2008 a great film. have you seen I Am Cuba (1964) shot by sergei urusevsky? photographically, i think, la haine was influenced by it a great deal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Damien Bhatti Posted April 15, 2008 Premium Member Share Posted April 15, 2008 What are peoples opinions about the symbolism of the cow that Vinz (sic?) sees throughout the film...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Nik Samal Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 yehhhh i always wondered about that bloody cow. and years later i still haven't figure it out! luckily i have the short term memory of a fish so it won't stress me out and i will forget about the cow by the end of this message. it reminded me of a few years ago, maybe even around the time i first watched the film, and in manchester, some art students had placed these full sized model cows around the town. was pretty cool. yeh this message has no relevence in it what so ever, but i think writing an essay on la haine in college was the first time i ever had a problem trying to take stuff out to keep to the word count. so much to write about peace Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Vincent Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 Sorry slightly late replying to this, but if memory serves me correctly J.Forbes writes some articles/papers on La Heine. I also like the cow motif, still wondering what significance it has if any.. Ill think about it.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrizio De Sica Posted April 22, 2008 Share Posted April 22, 2008 You can enter in touch with Mathieu. He's poster at www.dvinfo.net. I've already seen him to discuss with David Mullen there. About this forum too. No nice words added actually. :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Green Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 What are peoples opinions about the symbolism of the cow that Vinz (sic?) sees throughout the film...? When they were filming La Haine, the banlieue (which, I'm told, comes from the word 'banished') they shot in had a circus camped in the fields next to it with camels and lamas just walking around with the 'projects' behind them. Kassovitz thought this was visually unusual and looked to him like a scene from a Fellini movie. He also says in the film's commentary that there's an old French saying, 'mort aux vaches!', which means 'kill the cows' (literally, death to the cows) - in the UK a similar thing would be 'kill the pigs!' - the cow in the film represents this saying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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