Dir: Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2002. Starring: Muzaffer Özdemir, Emin Toprak. Foreign/Asian Cinema. Everyone’s paying homage to Tarkovsky nowadays, it seems, albeit often losing something in the translation. Turkish filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan is among the few directors (along with Mauritanian Abderrahmane Sissako, Malian Souleymane Ciss,e and Iranian Abbas Kiarostami) who thankfully picks up not only on … Continue reading Photoplays We Fancy — Uzak (Distant)
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Photoplays We Fancy — Herr Arnes pengar (Sir Arne’s Treasure)
Herr Arnes pengar Dir: Mauritz Stiller. 1919. Starring: Mary Johnson, Richard Lund, Erik Stocklassa. Silent Film/Foreign. Subtitled “a winter ballad in five acts,” Herr Arne’s Adventure is a bleak and beautiful masterpiece of Swedish cinema. In the 16th century, a gang of conspiring Scotsmen are banished from the country except for their leaders, who’re locked … Continue reading Photoplays We Fancy — Herr Arnes pengar (Sir Arne’s Treasure)
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Photoplays We Fancy — Schatten – Eine nächtliche Halluzination
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vwUem5Us6M Schatten (dir. Arthur Robison, 1923) begins with a five minute introduction to the film’s players, who are trotted out like the foils in a police lineup onto an actual stage where they’re identified with intertitles. After this lengthy prologue, the film abandons the use of titles altogether and embraces the purely visual ideal of … Continue reading Photoplays We Fancy — Schatten – Eine nächtliche Halluzination
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