Premium Member Jeff Bernstein Posted May 2, 2023 Author Premium Member Share Posted May 2, 2023 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Jeff Bernstein Posted May 2, 2023 Author Premium Member Share Posted May 2, 2023 (edited) Roger Deakins : Genius Move (32:15) Red Lens Flare, as if radiating from the killer as an aura of power. Edited May 2, 2023 by Jeff Bernstein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Jeff Bernstein Posted May 2, 2023 Author Premium Member Share Posted May 2, 2023 (edited) For Fun : Moving Camera Shadow Psycho (1960), 11:15, bottom right. Halloween (1978), 4:09, on the right wall. The Thing (1982), 15:07, between the right doorframe and the refrigerator. Fargo, 33:37, bottom right corner. Edited May 2, 2023 by Jeff Bernstein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Jeff Bernstein Posted May 3, 2023 Author Premium Member Share Posted May 3, 2023 Kurosawa Fargo, 30:22–32:45. Chasing after witnesses to eliminate them recalls The Hidden Fortress (1958), 1:24:14–1:26:07 : Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Jeff Bernstein Posted May 3, 2023 Author Premium Member Share Posted May 3, 2023 Billy Wilder and John F. Seitz (31:34) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Jeff Bernstein Posted May 3, 2023 Author Premium Member Share Posted May 3, 2023 (edited) The Wedding Ring. (33:56) Her first shot. Edited May 3, 2023 by Jeff Bernstein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Jeff Bernstein Posted May 3, 2023 Author Premium Member Share Posted May 3, 2023 (edited) Return of The Blue The Conformist (1970), 1:25:35. Vittorio Storaro Die bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant (1972), 4:24. Michael Ballhaus The Thing (1982), 1:29:55. Dean Cundy Fargo, 35:07. Roger Deakins EWS, 56:28. Kubrick/Larry Smith Edited May 3, 2023 by Jeff Bernstein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Jeff Bernstein Posted May 3, 2023 Author Premium Member Share Posted May 3, 2023 The Wedding Ring. (49:35). A potential suitor is on the telephone. This time we see the husband's wedding ring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Jeff Bernstein Posted May 3, 2023 Author Premium Member Share Posted May 3, 2023 (35:44) Rare shot of religiosity in Fargo? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Jeff Bernstein Posted May 3, 2023 Author Premium Member Share Posted May 3, 2023 (edited) The Mist. Throne of Blood (1957), 22:29 Edited May 3, 2023 by Jeff Bernstein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Jeff Bernstein Posted May 3, 2023 Author Premium Member Share Posted May 3, 2023 “Stan, I’m thinking we should offer them half a million.” (45:52) FATHER (to dying son) : “You can choose any place [sanatorium] you like! Never mind what it costs! Any place I can afford. Any place you like—within reason.” (Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Act 4) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Jeff Bernstein Posted May 3, 2023 Author Premium Member Share Posted May 3, 2023 Green. (3:54) (6:36) (6:41) (9:45) (24:33) (40:30) (41:24) (41:40) (41:56) (44:33) (46:04) (47:31) (52:17) (55:59) (59:34) (1:07:06) (1:10:15) (1:16:06) (1:18:44) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Jeff Bernstein Posted May 3, 2023 Author Premium Member Share Posted May 3, 2023 Hitchcock. (54:37) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Jeff Bernstein Posted May 3, 2023 Author Premium Member Share Posted May 3, 2023 For Fun : Team Smile? (55:28). This is the second Stan of the film. // Stan + Melanie = Stanley? // As in Kubrick? // Melanie + Stan = Melanie Daniels, the Protagonist of The Birds (1963)? And . . . ? Or . . . ? What words are found in "Melaniestan"? Listen! Alinements an' ailments an' manias an' meanies alienate animals in time; lament silent slain. // Lensman saint animates neat, leanest, seminal tale. // Meet Team Smile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Jeff Bernstein Posted May 3, 2023 Author Premium Member Share Posted May 3, 2023 Attention to Detail + Hitting the Mark? (56:00) Note the bright white telephoto artefact, a caster of the comfy chair looking like a beacon of light. Now look what happens : Held like this for 56:09–56:12. Coincidence? Or do geniuses with complex plans make lucky accidents happen? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Jeff Bernstein Posted May 3, 2023 Author Premium Member Share Posted May 3, 2023 (edited) If this conjunction has a meaning, what might it be? Perhaps it expresses visually that this character is entirely locked into her environment? Indeed, this character will solve the crime. Edited May 3, 2023 by Jeff Bernstein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Jeff Bernstein Posted May 3, 2023 Author Premium Member Share Posted May 3, 2023 Famous Happy Accident In Cold Blood (1967). Soon we close in on this character, and the shadows of the falling rain on his face look precisely like tears streaming from his left eye (2:10:36). Cinematographer : Conrad Hall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Jeff Bernstein Posted May 3, 2023 Author Premium Member Share Posted May 3, 2023 (edited) Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms (58:03) This minor airport employee is inconveniencing the plans of one of the film's principal characters. This is an oft-used storytelling device : how obdurate dogsbodies can potentially set awry important plans about which they know nothing. For example : No Country for Old Men : "Did you not hear me? We can't give out no information." (33:53) An ultimate use of this storytelling device may very well be in Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms (1929). In chapter 37, the two main characters have just survived a gruelling eight-hour escape to freedom, only for Swiss officials, two formally kind busybodies, to almost ruin the entire life-saving scheme with babble about "winter sport". Chapter 37 is brilliantly absurd writing inside one of the great American novels of the twentieth century. Edited May 3, 2023 by Jeff Bernstein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Jeff Bernstein Posted May 3, 2023 Author Premium Member Share Posted May 3, 2023 Pathway of Light Leading Inward (3:21) (58:34) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Jeff Bernstein Posted May 3, 2023 Author Premium Member Share Posted May 3, 2023 Multishot This one shot evokes how much information? A theoretical infinity? Let us tabulate only a few theories. (1) The green by Shep's head continues the color motif of "the crime"–of which Shep is now an unwitting accomplice. (2) The poster's illustrations resemble spears piercing his head, visually communicating the stress of a police interview. (3) Paperwork evokes the past (everything old, including mistakes), the present (official business taking place just now), and the future (threat of reabsorption into the so-called "Justice" system). (4) His pencil eraser is the ordinary red variety. (5) The strong vector of the window evokes a variety of resonances : the threatening onslaught of the police interview and the dangerously slippery slope of acting in the world; time's arrow leading to Fate; also prison bars; a futural 2001 : A Space Odyssey vibe (the "dismal tide" of time)–compare its future-cool texture to the quotidian wood panelling. The window also recalls Japanese fixtures (the Kurosawa vibe). And Shep's back is to the window : entrapment. The shot composition sums up the scene's theme at once : A precarious Shep vs. the Institution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Jeff Bernstein Posted May 3, 2023 Author Premium Member Share Posted May 3, 2023 Vermeer, Lady Writing a Letter With Her Maid (c.1670) Vermeer, The Geographer (detail), (c.1668) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Jeff Bernstein Posted May 3, 2023 Author Premium Member Share Posted May 3, 2023 PAUSE : out of server memory again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Jeff Bernstein Posted May 4, 2023 Author Premium Member Share Posted May 4, 2023 iuncta tenet Today all poets shall celebrate you (if the time is right), Bacchus. Fragrant wreaths of flowers shall decorate the temples of our heads, as we call to you by name over your own wine. Once, in the midst of it all, when my fate had not yet fallen as it has, you preferred not to miss me among the people. So I remember. Now I stand on my own under the Bear, in a crude foreign land on a far margin of the Black Sea. In days gone by I occupied myself with peaceful study, given life by the Muses—how easily they came to me! Now I live far from home (having suffered on sea and on land), surrounded by the powerful arms of the uncivilized. Whether chance brought me here, or Heaven’s anger, or gloomy fate already spun out at my birth, still you might have sustained one devoted to your holy ivy. Or do the three sisters’ songs surpass all power of the gods? Do gods and men both suffer? You blazed a rightful pathway up to the palace of Heaven on your own merit, a path of no little difficulty. You, too, live far from your fathers, moving from the northern snows to these warring strangers, to far-flung Persia, to the long Ganges and all the waters drunk by India. Surely this was woven by the Fates at your birth. And if I may note a parallel with the gods, my life, too, has been a hard and difficult way. I have fallen just as the bold warrior Capaneus felt Zeus’ fire—as punishment for bold words—and was sent away from Thebes. Yet when you heard Zeus strike a poet with his bolt, you felt no sadness for me (though your mother is mother earth), and you, Bacchus, did not say, “One of my own has gone away.” O god of Freedom, give me strength—so another vine heavy with grapes may release its wine! And the Bacchae and the Satyrs shall come in the strength of youth, to honour you with wild cries! And the bones of your perservering enemies shall lie vanquished, and all the shades of the impious shall suffer forever, while the stars in the endless sky glitter round your brighter lover Ariadne. Come down to me now, beautiful god, and raise me up. Remember me, for I am one of you. Bacchus! Come now. Move Caesar’s all-encompassing will with your own. All you poets as devoted as I am to our learning, here and now and in the same way make this prayer for yourselves! May one of you, remembering my name, raise the wine and say, “Where is Ovid, who once sang with us?” Poets, keep my strength at heart. Ovid, Tristia, V.III (“iuncta tenet” / “hold together”) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Jeff Bernstein Posted May 4, 2023 Author Premium Member Share Posted May 4, 2023 (edited) Early lens flare–type effect? As seen, for example, in Fargo, 32:15. Fresco, 3rd century. Catacombs of Priscilla, Rome. (207kb.) Edited May 4, 2023 by Jeff Bernstein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Jeff Bernstein Posted May 5, 2023 Author Premium Member Share Posted May 5, 2023 Glowing Paper? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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