onsdag den 21. september 2011

I'll Remember ()

Ugh. This is what I get for just letting the dvd continue.

Rain (1993)

The Love of Zero (1927)

Suspense (1913)

The House with Closed Shutters (1910)

The Birth of the Robot (1936)

The Cheat (1931)

Films and Feelings (1971)

"Jannings allowed himself to stray as far from “realism” as comedians do — one can speak of “slow” expressionism, like Jannings’, and ‘fast’ expressionism, like Chaplin’s (or Jerry Lewis’). The middle term between them is exemplified by Catherine Hessling in Jean Renoir’s Nana (1926), where she gives what is both the best and worst performance in the history of the French cinema. With her petal-light limbs flung out into Napoleonic postures, her bee-sting mouth pouting in her heart-shaped face, her eyes narrowed till the pupils disappear under a palisade of lashes, her fluttering precocity and jagged stances, this awkward blend of Chaplinesque, quicksilver and marionette fixity comes, if only the spectator will adapt his response, to make at least as much sense as modern “Method”-ism."

mandag den 19. september 2011

I Dream of Jeanie

Drive (2005)


"Worry about that later.
 He looked back at the open door. Maybe that’s it, Driver thought. Maybe, for now, three bodies are enough."

...

"By the next day’s end, with nothing on paper, no treatment, not a single word of script, nary a spreadsheet or projection in sight, they had it together. Contingent commitments from investors, a distributor, the whole nine yards. Their lawyer was looking into rights and permissions."