Don’t worry that the Hollywood output this week is a bunch of crap, Hulu has a great collection of Cinema Rarities courtesy of Criterion up that you can watch for free. We all can’t go see The Master multiple times so it’s nice to sit at home and get caught on some classics you may have missed.
Robert Bresson’s A Man Escaped,
Elaine May’s Mikey and Nicky,
Kenji Mizoguchi’s The Life of Oharu
Wim Wenders’
There’s been more chatter about The Death Of The Book, than there has been about even The Death Of Film, yet the book has proven to be pretty damn resilant as it morphs into new forms. We can only hope that film follows suit. The LA Times had a nice overview on the opportunities that digital offers over print, and vice versa. It can’t help prod you a bit to answer what can be analogous in the film space to some of the innovative solutions both sides of the publishing world that the film biz can mimic and expand upon.
Publishing also shares many of the vulnerabilities that film does
Okay, let’s let the the great movies be the great movies (at least for now), but who says we can’t have fun with their various extensions? Eddie Burns is on a role. He’s always gotten a great deal of inspiration from the greats. THE BROTHERS McMULLEN had a bit of Woody Allen — in Irish drag — as it’s patron saint. He’s found new inspiration and energy from an embrace of DIY and social media, and as much as he’s looking forward, he’s drawing on the past. To get us all ready for his new film NICE GUY JOHNNY (opening on all platforms Oct. 26), Eddie has looked at the greatest movies ever made, but hey he’s a busy guy, so he doesn’t have time to watch the whole feature and has settled on the trailers.
Does this trailer remind you of anything you’ve seen before?
They just don’t make them like they used to, eh? Watching trailers on the classics, truly makes me want the super power of time travel so I could return to a time when the first impression was devoid of camp. Still though, show this trailer for Antonioni’s L’Avventura in the theater today, and I would be at a screening tomorrow. Beautiful and sexy and black and white. What more do you need?
One question though, does anyone know what this piece of music is that plays underneath the voiceover?
I just got married. I am thrilled. We even got some gifts out of it. We now have the Bergman Archives next to our Kubrick ones. These are beautiful books reinforcing my love for great movies. They make me want to see more great movies. How can this phenomenon be carried over to other aspects of film culture.
