"Does the film offer a space or
entry point to someone who is not sympathetic to its agenda? That's something I
think all films should do."
Since film discussion has been on the Internet, so has Victor Morton. The very opinionted and didactic film blogger joins Peter for a journey through his cinephile life. Victor tells the tales of growing up in both Scotland and Texas, before finally finding a voice on the famous UseNet groups of the early Internet. The two then discuss his approach to cinema as a conservative, the influence and analysis of viewing films through a Catholic prism, and the continuing wonders of Romanian cinema. Finally, the two dive deep into Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne's Rosetta, a film which might not have any specific Christian themes on its surface, but the two find to be deeply, deeply spiritual.
0:00-1:00 Opening
2:22-6:57 Establishing Shots - Allan Dwan / Trivia Round
7:42-1:29:03 Deep Focus - Victor Morton
1:29:54-1:59:27 Double Exposure - Rosetta (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
1:59:28-2:02:51 Close / Outtake - Victor on A Clockwork Orange
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Notes and Links from the Conversation
-Peter's Letterboxd Review of Allan Dwan films: Manhandled, Stage Struck, The Iron Mask, Trail of the Vigilantes, Rendezvous With Annie, Frontier Marshall, and Brewster's Millions.
-Alan Dwan Dossier
-The Breakfast Club
-Amadeus
-Roger Ebert on Amadeus
-Vulcan Video
-Sex, Lies, and Videotape
-The Skandies
-Victor's Toronto Reviews
-The Act of Killing
-Videocracy
-Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer
-Chris Marker's Sans Soleil
-Victor's interview with Nashville Scene
-The film Victor couldn't think of was An American Carol.
-Romanian Film Reviews: Beyond the Hills, Police, Adjective, 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days (a second piece on the film), The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu, Outbound, The Happiest Girl in the World and Medal of Honor, Tales from the Golden Age, and a few older Romanian films.
-On Robert Bresson and Pickpocket
-Wes Anderson's The Darjeeling Limited
-Von Trier's Dogville and Dancer in the Dark
-Irreversible
-Post Tenebras Lux
-On Ingmar Bergman's passing.
-The Dardennes' The Son, L'Enfant, and Lorna's Silence.
-Peter on The Son.
-Alan Dwan Dossier
-The Breakfast Club
-Amadeus
-Roger Ebert on Amadeus
-Vulcan Video
-Sex, Lies, and Videotape
-The Skandies
-Victor's Toronto Reviews
-The Act of Killing
-Videocracy
-Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer
-Chris Marker's Sans Soleil
-Victor's interview with Nashville Scene
-The film Victor couldn't think of was An American Carol.
-Romanian Film Reviews: Beyond the Hills, Police, Adjective, 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days (a second piece on the film), The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu, Outbound, The Happiest Girl in the World and Medal of Honor, Tales from the Golden Age, and a few older Romanian films.
-On Robert Bresson and Pickpocket
-Wes Anderson's The Darjeeling Limited
-Von Trier's Dogville and Dancer in the Dark
-Irreversible
-Post Tenebras Lux
-On Ingmar Bergman's passing.
-The Dardennes' The Son, L'Enfant, and Lorna's Silence.
-Peter on The Son.
Theme Music: “Forward” by Northbound
ERRATA: Due to a brain-freeze, during the discussion of SANS SOLEIL, I misidentified the colony formerly called Portuguese Guinea as "Equatorial Guinea." That is incorrect; I should have said Guinea-Bissau (the independent nation Equatorial Guinea was a Spanish colony). The Victor Daily regrets the error.
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