“I’d like to think while I’m watching a film, I try and
approach it on its own terms. I think to myself ‘What is the review this movie
wants? And what is the review this movie is going to get?’ But really it’s
about asking what is the ideal version of this movie? What is it trying to be
and to what extent does it get there?”
New
York Magazine film critic Bilge Ebiri loves films that he can constantly
revisit and pry deeper and deeper, so Peter has no problem prying into Bilge’s
own head for his conversation on The
Cinephiliacs. Bilge talks about his early exposure to the Hollywood New
Wave in Turkey as a young boy, and then traces his cinephilia through his
desires to trying to become a filmmaker (including working on a film by Nikita
Mikhalkov) before finding his voice as a critic. The two then discuss his love
of films that indulge their wildest pleasures, some of his favorite auteurs (a
list that includes Terrence Malick and Christopher Nolan side by side), and his
own feature film, New Guy. Finally,
the two dive into the truly daunting task of investigating Stanley Kubrick’s
masterpiece Barry Lyndon and try and
make sense of a film that asks us to identify with “The Past,” yet always undercuts
and manifests itself as something even more audacious.
0:00-4:48 Opening / Establishing Shots – Film Vs. Digital
5:04-1:14:17 Deep Focus – Bilge Ebiri
1:15:13-1:45:31 Double Exposure – Barry Lyndon (Stanley
Kubrick)
1:45:32-1:47:58 Close / Outtake
Read Bilge Ebiri at They Live By Night, Vulture, New York Magazine, Nashville
Scene, Moving
Image Source, and IFC.Com.
Order a DVD of New Guy on Amazon, or stream the movie with a subscription to Fandor.
Order a DVD of New Guy on Amazon, or stream the movie with a subscription to Fandor.
