"When people are not sympathetic to a filmmaker, they will fall into a stance...I don't want to act like I'm saying things that are obvious to me and therefore they should be obvious to everyone else."
Strongly opinionated but never dogmatically so, the prolific Vadim Rizov ranks among the best of the new generation of cinephiles in Peter's opnion. So the young writer joins him to discuss his unique voice in the critical community. Vadim discusses his early forays into cinema at a young age, and how his frustrations with Austin's film scene led him to New York (only to more frustrations at NYU). The two then get into his fascinating writing style and how it stands against the majority of contemporary film writing, his interest in the evolving contemporary cinema, and why he goes back again and again to the True/False Film Festival. The two then dive into Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Cercle Rouge, a type of closed circuit movie that might be out of style with many cinephiles today, but is full of wondrous pleasures for those that pry its pieces apart.
0:00-1:05 Opening
1:55 -5:50 Establishing Shots - Roberto Rossellini's Voyage to Italy / Trivia Round
6:34-56:56 Deep Focus - Vadim Rizov
57:49-1:20:04 Double Exposure - Le Cercle Rouge (Jean-Pierre Melville)
1:20:06-1:22:22 Close
Read Vadim Rizov at Letterboxd, Filmmaker Magazine, The AV Club, Green Screen Daily, Little White Lies, Film.Com, L Magazine, The Village Voice, Time Out, IFC.Com, and The House Next Door. (Sight and Sound is not online). More reviews via Rotten Tomatoes.
Notes and Links from the Conversation
-Janus's restoration of Voyage to Italy at Film Forum
-The Paramount in Austin
-Vadim on Edward Yang's Yi Yi
-J. Hoberman on Gerry
-NYU Professors Ken Dancyger and Robert Sklar
-J. Hoberman's Army of Phantoms
-Vadim on Harris Savides
-Michael Sicinski's personal film blog
-Favorite Repertory Films of 2012
-"How to issue fiery negative rhetoric on the Internet"
-A brief note on Fargo Rock City
-Vadim on "Cultural Vegetables"
-Vadim responds to David Denby
-Vadim's favorite songs of 2012
-Favorite Repertory Films of 2012
-"How to issue fiery negative rhetoric on the Internet"
-A brief note on Fargo Rock City
-Vadim on "Cultural Vegetables"
-Vadim responds to David Denby
-Vadim's favorite songs of 2012
-A Taxonomy of Mumblecore
-Michael Sicinski's interview with Ben Rivers
-Review of Two Years at Sea
-David Gatten's The Extravagant Shadows
-On Wes Anderson and Fantastic Mr. Fox
-David Bordwell's Pandora's Digital Box
-An interview with Andrew Bujalski and a review of Computer Chess
-On Armond White
-Michael Sicinski's interview with Ben Rivers
-Review of Two Years at Sea
-David Gatten's The Extravagant Shadows
-On Wes Anderson and Fantastic Mr. Fox
-David Bordwell's Pandora's Digital Box
-An interview with Andrew Bujalski and a review of Computer Chess
-On Armond White
-Vadim's Yearly Top 10 Lists and his Sight and Sound ballot.
-The True/False Film Festival (Vadim's 2010 coverage and his 2013 coverage)
-Ginette Vincendeau's An American in Paris
-The True/False Film Festival (Vadim's 2010 coverage and his 2013 coverage)
-Ginette Vincendeau's An American in Paris
Theme Music: “Forward” by Northbound
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