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The Skin of the Frame

dublin2009 — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 09:23:06 +0000

Beginning off-screen and beyond then thrusting inward; a movement that forever ruptures the sanctity of the skin of the frame.

Filed under: Action, British Cinema, European Cinema, Faces, Film, Film Studies, Finding Words, Hollywood, Linking Spaces, Versus Tagged: Alberto Cavalcanti, BF Taylor, British Cinema, Charles Laughton, Chris Columbus, Dawn of the Dead, European Cinema, Faces, Film Studies, George Romero, Home Alone, Lillian Gish, Macaulay Culkin, Night of the Hunter, Night of the Living Dead, Robert Mitchum, Versus, Went the Day Well?, Words

Cool It Carol! (Pete Walker, 1970)

dublin2009 — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:19:27 +0000

Revelation, here, becomes a varied discovery of both the places you have dreamed about and the failings you fear revealed.

Filed under: British Cinema, European Cinema, Faces, Film, Finding Words, Pete Walker, Robin Askwith Tagged: BF Taylor, Billy Liar, British Cinema, Cool It Carol!, European Cinema, Faces, Film Studies, From Robin Wood to Robin Askwith, Janet Lynn, Pete Walker, Robin Askwith, Words

Robin Wood 1931-2009

dublin2009 — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:47:52 +0000

Responsibility Critic Explore Value Personal Engagement Experience Vital Contact Questioning Response Project Significance Disagreement Voice Insight Awakening Tensions Balance Honesty

Posted in British Cinema, European Cinema, Faces, Film, Film Studies, Finding Words, Hollywood, Ozu Tagged: Robin Wood

Festive Greetings

dublin2009 — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 10:51:40 +0000

Posted in Finding Words Tagged: Christmas, Elvis Presley

Bronco Bullfrog (Barney Platts-Mills, 1970)

dublin2009 — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:54:10 +0000

Only the briefest respite offered here because the world just spins too tight and small and slowly for us all.

Posted in British Cinema, British New Wave, Bronco Bullfrog, European Cinema, Faces, Film Studies, Finding Words Tagged: Barney Platts-Mills, BF Taylor, British Cinema, European Cinema, Faces, Film Studies, From Robin Wood to Robin Askwith, Words

Robin Askwith

dublin2009 — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:20:03 +0000

Faces loom and shine here like new stars spied hanging in the night for the very first time every time.

Posted in British Cinema, Faces, Film Studies, Finding Words, Pete Walker, Robin Askwith Tagged: BF Taylor, British Cinema, Confessions, Cool It Carol!, Film Studies, From Robin Wood to Robin Askwith, Janet Lynn, Pete Walker, Robin Askwith, Words

Lillian Gish – Broken Blossoms (DW Griffith, 1919)

dublin2009 — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 09:10:29 +0000

Faces loom and shine here like new stars spied hanging in the night for the very first time every time.

Posted in Faces, Film Studies, Finding Words, Hollywood Tagged: Broken Blossoms, DW Griffith, Faces, Film Studies, Hollywood, Lillian Gish, Words

Bronco Bullfrog (Barney Platts-Mills, 1970)

dublin2009 — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 19:50:44 +0000

Few moments in film really capture the sweetness of a freedom at once lyrical, liberating, limiting yet, ultimately, inevitably, lost.

Posted in British Cinema, Bronco Bullfrog, European Cinema, Faces, Film Studies, Finding Words Tagged: Barney Platts-Mills, BF Taylor, British Cinema, Bronco Bullfrog, European Cinema, Faces, Film Studies, From Robin Wood to Robin Askwith, Words

Setsuko Hara – Late Spring (Yasujiro Ozu, 1949)

dublin2009 — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:34:20 +0000

Whereas elsewhere crescendos will always threaten from somewhere beyond the frame here the space between simple gestures offers alternative volumes.

Posted in Faces, Film Studies, Finding Words, Ozu Tagged: Faces, Film Studies, Late Spring, Setsuko Hara, Words, Yasujiro Ozu

Fred Astaire versus Jason Statham – The Transporter (Cory Yuen, 2002)

dublin2009 — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:12:29 +0000

Despite the changing frames and the patterns they contain traditions of power, poise and captured grace remain constant and engaging.

Posted in Action, Dancing, Film, Film Studies, Finding Words, Linking Spaces, Versus Tagged: Choreography, Cory Yuen, Film Studies, Fred Astaire, Hollywood, Jason Statham, Martial Arts, The Transporter, Top Hat, Words