“In a film, the power relationship is reversed: the direction is king, the text subservient. A film script is in itself of little or no consequence, and mine is no exception to that rule. If it seems to resemble literature, the appearance is deceiving; it is rather a yearning for it.” — Eric Rohmer, preface [...]
Archive for the ‘Cinema Studies’ Category
Cinema Studies: The Movement of Claire’s Knee
Posted in Cinema Studies, tagged Rohmer, Cinema Studies, Almendros, Claire's Knee, 1970 on January 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Cinema Studies #2: Cinematic Staging
Posted in Cinema Studies on March 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
In his indispensable book “Figures Traced In Light” David Bordwell takes an in-depth look at cinematic staging, its evolution and variations, seen through four directors: Feuillade, Mizoguchi, Angelopoulos, and Hou. In that vein I plan to use my ‘Cinema Studies’ to also look at this understated stylistic approach to filmmaking. For this [...]
Cinema Studies #1: Transitions
Posted in Cinema Studies on January 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
(This is the first post of an ongoing series entitled: Cinema Studies. It will consist of in-depth investigations into the minutiae of film, the gears of cinema; middle-level research, if you will)
This first study will look at transitional sequences in two renowned American films: Terrence Malick’s Days of Heaven (1978) and Francis Ford Coppola’s The [...]
