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Re: Movie News Roundup Friday

Maya — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 13:21:45 -0000

Thanks for the tip of the hat, Blake. And for the reading tips!!

Re: Pan's Labyrinth (2006) - Movie Wallpaper

Maya — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 03:46:45 -0000

Hey, you've been busy over here! It's looking good. As ever, thanks for the tip of the hat, Blake.

Re: Black Mama, White Mama (1972) - Movie Wallpaper

Maya — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 03:49:33 -0000

What a hot picture of Pam Grier!!

Re: Twisted Nerve (1968) - Movie Wallpaper

Maya — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 03:50:59 -0000

Oh my goodness, Hayley had a twisted nerve?? I always thought she was ready to snap after The Parent Trap. Let's get together right away, indeed.

Re: Southland Tales Director Richard Kelly at Fantastic Fest 2007

Maya — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 03:51:50 -0000

Excuse me for going all homo on you, but yum.

Re: Fantastic Fest 2007 - Playing Catch Up - PERSEPOLIS, DAINIPPONJIN, CRAZY THUNDER ROAD & RICHARD KELLY

Maya — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 03:54:09 -0000

Thanks for the report back. I should have gone down to this. Next year.

Re: King of California (2007) - Movie Wallpaper

Maya — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 03:57:12 -0000

Ugh. I detested this movie.

Re: Mildred Pierce (1945) - Daily Movie Quote

Maya — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:38:19 -0000

As ever, Blake, thanks for the tip of the hat.

Re: BNAT X Showcases the Future of Cinema

Maya — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 04:19:19 -0000

Great selection of films, Blake! Thanks for your notes.

Re: Emperor of the North Pole (1973) - Vintage Movie Wallpaper of the Day - Japanese Poster Celebration Month

Maya — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:29:22 -0000

My gosh, you're doing some great work over here, Blake. As ever, thanks for the shout out. I appreciate it.

Re: Tarr-ed and Feathered in Minneapolis

Maya — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 11:37:40 -0000

Kevin: This entry induced much amusement at my computer this morning. Thank you for relaying it.

Re: Video Essay for 907 (48) The Woman in the Window (1944, Fritz Lang) with guest commentary by Girish Shambu

Maya — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:10:55 -0000

Superb!! You really must do this more often. Your comments here reminded me of when I caught this film on a rainy afternoon in Paris at some small alley theater.

Re: From the NYU Film Criticism Workshop

Maya — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:34:25 -0000

Kevin: What a marvelous contribution to the online film community. Thank you so much for your care in relaying these discussions to those of who could not attend.

Re: Notes from the NYU Film Conference, Pt. 2 - Jonathan Rosenbaum

Maya — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:38:51 -0000

I admire that Rosenbaum recognizes that cinema is much more than going to a movie house and watching movies. It's such a simple premise really that it's nearly baffling in its potential complexities and evolutionary nuances.

Re: Notes from the NYU Film Conference, Pt. 3 - Adrian Martin

Maya — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:59:16 -0000

Oh my goodness. There are so many wonderful thoughts in this summation. What a great day of listening and interacting this must have been!

Because of my immersion into the recent Pedro Costa retrospective and Costa's own firebrand delivery of a "dangerous" cinema, many of these ideas have finally "set" in a relevant and meaningful way. For example, I have been very influenced by Costa's assertions that the best kind of cinema is precisely that which restricts or even denies access, in the sense of overly identifying with the personages on screen or--as you've synopsized it here--projecting with associations or being too comfortable for being too entertained. It's so difficult not to do this as a spectator and yet crucial to maturing as a spectator.

Brenez's question--“How do we somatize, internalize and act out the evil of the world?”--is another one I have been thinking a lot about. It has to be between people, I think. The world has to be somatized within the individual body and between individual bodies, wherein the potential breadth of good and evil likewise resides.

I love the Bergman insight on islands. I Walked With A Zombie and Casa de Lava have taken on complex connotations of longing and thwarted desire precisely for being set on islands where looking out to sea is a means of longing for the mainland, or home, or someone else.

I'm glad Adrian has spoken out against pugilistic criticism. I find that confirming and reassuring.

Durgnant sounds like my kind of guy. For as much objectivity as can be applied to a piece of film writing, can there ever be objective film criticism? Is is possible?

"space generated by sound vs. space generated by image": Again, Costa has enlightened me with regard to this structure of argument. Not only in how he capitalizes on natural light sources to shape his images but in how he extends their spatiality through soundscapes that are nearly for walking through.

I love any kind of writing, film criticism no less, when it inspires desire. Imagining the audience is, for me, a form of desire, whether that be an audience of spectators or an audience of readers.

And interesting that they should single out David Walsh's political perspective at the World Socialist Website. He denounced Costa as a fraud and yet I have found his filmmaking to be politics committed to action, nearly freed from rhetoric.

Re: Notes from the NYU Film Conference, Pt. 4 - Nicole Brenez (as told to Adrian Martin)

Maya — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:05:43 -0000

Again, this sounds so much like what Costa was professing during his PFA residency. I'm so glad to realize his is not a lone voice.

Re: Notes from the NYU Film Conference, Pt. 5 - Q&A hosted by Girish Shambu

Maya — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:10:05 -0000

By taking the time to share all of this, Kevin, you endeavor the kind of responsibility to film writing and film aficionados that I am 100% in support of. It's been a true pleasure to review your notes.

Re: From the NYU Film Criticism Workshop

Maya — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:22:07 -0000

This tickles the Cassandra within to prognosticate that I've been feeling for some time now that seeing cinema on celluloid is going to shift into the elite prestige arts like opera and the symphony, where you pay good money for your seat for the privilege of seeing a movie how it's supposed to be seen. And as Dave is suggesting, truly fine opera companies and symphonic orchestras aren't readily available outside urban centers.

Then again, why anyone would choose to not be an urbanite still baffles me. (Joking of course.) Though I did receive a comment one time by a rather petulant fellow who said it wasn't fair that I could write about films I see in the city which were not available to him in the country. I reminded him that living in the city was not an accident; it was a choice. We all have choice. You have to decide what's important for you. If a love of cinema is so entrenched as to biography and lifestyle, then I think you decide accordingly.

Re: From the NYU Film Criticism Workshop

Maya — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 03:54:44 -0000

Tomorrow's a bitch. The past, now she was faithful. Heh.

Re: Moving Image Institute: Days 4, 5 and beyond

Maya — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:35:48 -0000

Wonderful coverage, Kevin. Thanks so much for filtering your reportage through your own questing sensibility.

Re: Cinema Advocacy Spotlight on Africa (aka shameless plug for a couple of DVDs I worked on)

Maya — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:42:31 -0000

I love both these films. How great to know you've had a part in their DVD release.

Re: Movie Review: Hostel: Part II

Maya — Thu, 31 May 2007 15:40:57 -0000

Thoroughly enjoyable review, Peter, and appreciated from the perspective of someone who stayed up late at night pounding out his own on the keyboard. Count me as a new fan to your film site.

Re: Movie Review: Ocean’s 13

Maya — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 12:40:33 -0000

Oceans Thirteen is a consummate homage to caper genre films; a subset of crime dramas. It all works like clockwork in a world whose time far surpasses an ordinary day.

Re: The Invasion Movie Trailer Revealed

Maya — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 19:54:07 -0000

Like so many movies coming out of Hollywood these days, whatever story there might be here seems obfuscated by explosions and spectacle-like scenarios. Of course, they might just be trying to punch interest through the trailer; but, like you, I'm feeling some reservations.

I am pleased to see what looks like Veronica Cartwright in a cameo homage. I love her career.

Re: Rocket Science Movie Poster and Two Video Clips

Maya — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 19:55:58 -0000

This was a truly sweet, fun movie. Did you interview them when they were in town, Peter?

Re: Sweeney Todd Movie Poster

Maya — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 16:32:12 -0000

Sweeney Todd is fantastic theatre and its transformation into cinema is some of the best news in years.

Re: Cool Stuff: Tom Whalen’s Poster Art

Maya — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:40:42 -0000

Whalen is a wonderful discovery, Peter. Thanks so much for the turn-on. I love his art.

Re: Cool Stuff: Eric Tan’s WALL-E, Incredibles and Ratatouille Poster Art

Maya — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:41:46 -0000

Yet another splendid gallery. I love this feature on your site.

Re: CLIVE BARKER: Exclusive Interview Part Two at 42 Sitges Film Festival

Maya — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 12:44:21 -0000

Blake: Since the days you were on the Twitch team asking tips on how to interview to this beautifully-edted and informative interview with Barker, you have come such a long way and I am so proud of you. Thank you for your fantastic coverage at Sitges.