Posted in Reviews on December 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Billy the Kid (2007)
DV Documentary
Dir: Jennifer Venditti
DP: Donald Cumming
Billy the Kid—on limited run at the IFC Theater in Manhattan—has been garnering accolades & awards for months. Shuffling through reviews the classic buzzwords fly out: “haunting,” “utterly original,” “important,” a “heightened metaphor for the universally torturous condition that is adolescence.”” But it is glaringly obvious [...]
Posted in Small Thoughts on December 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
From David Bordwell’s post “Sleeves” — December 3rd, 2007
“Am I fussing over minutiae? No; Wyler and Mizoguchi did. We just have to follow where they lead. As I try to show. . . directors attend closely to things that might seem trivial. Our analysis needs to be as fine-grained as their craft and artistry.”
If film [...]
