"How much can we squeeze out if we treat films very simple? Sometimes going simple, even with complicated filmmakers, yields things that are often taken for granted."
0:00-2:40 Opening
3:27-10:22 Establishing Shots - Texture and Claire Denis
11:07-1:27:05 Deep Focus - David Bordwell
11:07-1:27:05 Deep Focus - David Bordwell
1:52:02-1:56:23 Close
Read David Bordwell at Observations on Film Art alongside Kristin Thompson.
David's books include: Film Art: An Introduction, The Classical Hollywood Cinema, Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema, Planet Hong Kong, Figures Traced in Light, On The History of Film Style, Post Theory: Reconstructing Film Studies, Making Meaning: Inference and Rhetoric in the Interpretation of Cinema, Narration in the Fiction Film, Poetics of Cinema,
David's books include: Film Art: An Introduction, The Classical Hollywood Cinema, Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema, Planet Hong Kong, Figures Traced in Light, On The History of Film Style, Post Theory: Reconstructing Film Studies, Making Meaning: Inference and Rhetoric in the Interpretation of Cinema, Narration in the Fiction Film, Poetics of Cinema,
Notes and Links from the Conversation
—More on Claire Denis: Melissa Anderson on Chocolat; Ben Sachs discusses Nenette et Boni with Christy LeMaster; Darren Hughes and Michael Cleary on a career-spanning overview.
—Arthur Knight's The Liveliest Art
—Iris Barry's history with the MoMA can be found in Robert Stam's biography
—David's Citizen Kane piece from Film Comment can be found in Bill Nichols' anthology
—Rare copies of the Spring 1963 Film Culture issue edited by Andrew Sarris can be purchased via Amazon. Here's the cover.
—Movie: A Journal of Film Criticism
—John Caughie covers some of Movie's history in his book, Theories of Authorship
—Iowa's Film Studies Program
—David's dissertation on French cinema was published but is out of print. Curious library seekers may be able to track it down.
—Same with David's Passion of Joan of Arc monograph. However, he has written many times about Dreyer on the blog.
—Michael Baxandall's Painting and Experience in 15th Century Italy introduces certain concepts of "group style" (which has been covered by William Seitz's critical biography of Monet in 1960). His 1989 book Patterns of Intention makes a case for the "Problem-Solver" methodology of artistic criticism.
—David's own contribution to the 1979 issue of Film Criticism was his infamous "Art Cinema As A Mode Of Practice." It is available to those with access via EBSCO.
—Dudley Andrew
—Stephen Heath's "Narrative Space" and Touch of Evil analysis
—Jump Cut
—Dudley Andrew's What Cinema Is! and Andre Bazin
—Tino Bailo and United Artists: The Company Built By The Stars
—Douglas Gomrey, The Coming of Sound, Film History: Theory and Practice
—A manifesto on "Revisionist Film History"
—David's posts on Hong Sang-Soo and his recent lecture on Hou Hsiao-Hsien
—David and Kristin recently collected their posts on Christopher Nolan into an e-book.
—David's explanation of rational agents from On the History of Film Style: "I assume that filmmakers make choices, are responsible for them, but may see those choices eventuate in unforeseen consequences. Academics certainly claim agency for themselves in exactly these dimensions; why should we deny them to filmmakers?"
—David's post on Godard and Goodbye to Language
—Much of David's writing on Hong Kong cinema is in his book, but he has posts about ShawScope, Wong Kar-Wai, Johnnie To, and John Woo.
—My post on Unfriended, which David references.
—Bordwell on Roger Ebert (and his forward to one of Roger's Great Movies collections) and Robin Wood
—Bordwell's new book, The Rhapsodies, on the work of 1940s film critics
—Some previous posts by David on the 1940s: On Suspense films, on replays, on continuity, on flashabacks.
—David on the Two Shot in contemporary cinema
—David makes references to Erving Goffman's Impression Management
—More on Claire Denis: Melissa Anderson on Chocolat; Ben Sachs discusses Nenette et Boni with Christy LeMaster; Darren Hughes and Michael Cleary on a career-spanning overview.
—Arthur Knight's The Liveliest Art
—Iris Barry's history with the MoMA can be found in Robert Stam's biography
—David's Citizen Kane piece from Film Comment can be found in Bill Nichols' anthology
—Rare copies of the Spring 1963 Film Culture issue edited by Andrew Sarris can be purchased via Amazon. Here's the cover.
—Movie: A Journal of Film Criticism
—John Caughie covers some of Movie's history in his book, Theories of Authorship
—Iowa's Film Studies Program
—David's dissertation on French cinema was published but is out of print. Curious library seekers may be able to track it down.
—Same with David's Passion of Joan of Arc monograph. However, he has written many times about Dreyer on the blog.
—Michael Baxandall's Painting and Experience in 15th Century Italy introduces certain concepts of "group style" (which has been covered by William Seitz's critical biography of Monet in 1960). His 1989 book Patterns of Intention makes a case for the "Problem-Solver" methodology of artistic criticism.
—David's own contribution to the 1979 issue of Film Criticism was his infamous "Art Cinema As A Mode Of Practice." It is available to those with access via EBSCO.
—Dudley Andrew
—Stephen Heath's "Narrative Space" and Touch of Evil analysis
—Jump Cut
—Dudley Andrew's What Cinema Is! and Andre Bazin
—Tino Bailo and United Artists: The Company Built By The Stars
—Douglas Gomrey, The Coming of Sound, Film History: Theory and Practice
—A manifesto on "Revisionist Film History"
—David's posts on Hong Sang-Soo and his recent lecture on Hou Hsiao-Hsien
—David and Kristin recently collected their posts on Christopher Nolan into an e-book.
—David's explanation of rational agents from On the History of Film Style: "I assume that filmmakers make choices, are responsible for them, but may see those choices eventuate in unforeseen consequences. Academics certainly claim agency for themselves in exactly these dimensions; why should we deny them to filmmakers?"
—David's post on Godard and Goodbye to Language
—Much of David's writing on Hong Kong cinema is in his book, but he has posts about ShawScope, Wong Kar-Wai, Johnnie To, and John Woo.
—My post on Unfriended, which David references.
—Bordwell on Roger Ebert (and his forward to one of Roger's Great Movies collections) and Robin Wood
—Bordwell's new book, The Rhapsodies, on the work of 1940s film critics
—Some previous posts by David on the 1940s: On Suspense films, on replays, on continuity, on flashabacks.
—David on the Two Shot in contemporary cinema
—David makes references to Erving Goffman's Impression Management
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