The Skin of the Frame
Posted: July 8, 2010 Filed under: Action, British Cinema, European Cinema, Faces, Film, Film Studies, Finding Words, Hollywood, Linking Spaces, Versus | Tags: 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 Leave a comment
Beginning off-screen and beyond then thrusting
inward; a movement that forever ruptures the sanctity of the skin o
f the frame.
Cool It Carol! (Pete Walker, 1970)
Posted: February 10, 2010 Filed under: British Cinema, European Cinema, Faces, Film, Finding Words, Pete Walker, Robin Askwith | Tags: 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 Leave a commentRevelation, here, becomes a varied discovery of both the places you have dreamed about and the failings you fear revealed.
Robin Askwith
Posted: October 30, 2009 Filed under: British Cinema, Faces, Film Studies, Finding Words, Pete Walker, Robin Askwith | Tags: BF Taylor, British Cinema, Confessions, Cool It Carol!, Film Studies, From Robin Wood to Robin Askwith, Janet Lynn, Pete Walker, Robin Askwith, Words Leave a comment
Faces loom and shine here like new stars spied hanging in the night for the very first time every time.
Lillian Gish – Broken Blossoms (DW Griffith, 1919)
Posted: October 9, 2009 Filed under: Faces, Film Studies, Finding Words, Hollywood | Tags: Broken Blossoms, DW Griffith, Faces, Film Studies, Hollywood, Lillian Gish, Words Leave a commentFaces loom and shine here like new stars spied hanging in the night for the very first time every time.
Bronco Bullfrog (Barney Platts-Mills, 1970)
Posted: September 8, 2009 Filed under: British Cinema, Bronco Bullfrog, European Cinema, Faces, Film Studies, Finding Words | Tags: Barney Platts-Mills, BF Taylor, British Cinema, Bronco Bullfrog, European Cinema, Faces, Film Studies, From Robin Wood to Robin Askwith, Words Leave a comment
Few moments in film really capture the sweetness of a freedom at once lyrical, liberating, limiting yet, ultimately, inevitably, lost.
Setsuko Hara – Late Spring (Yasujiro Ozu, 1949)
Posted: August 20, 2009 Filed under: Faces, Film Studies, Finding Words, Ozu | Tags: Faces, Film Studies, Late Spring, Setsuko Hara, Words, Yasujiro Ozu Leave a commentWhereas elsewhere crescendos will always threaten from somewhere beyond the frame here the space between simple gestures offers alternative volumes.
Fred Astaire versus Jason Statham – The Transporter (Cory Yuen, 2002)
Posted: August 13, 2009 Filed under: Action, Dancing, Film, Film Studies, Finding Words, Linking Spaces, Versus | Tags: Choreography, Cory Yuen, Film Studies, Fred Astaire, Hollywood, Jason Statham, Martial Arts, The Transporter, Top Hat, Words Leave a commentDespite the changing frames and the patterns they contain traditions of power, poise and captured grace remain constant and engaging.
The Case of the Bloody Iris/Perché quelle strane gocce di sangue sul corpo di Jennifer? (Guiliano Carnimeo, 1972)
Posted: August 10, 2009 Filed under: European Cinema, Faces, Film Studies, Finding Words, Giallo, Italian Cinema | Tags: Edwige Fenech, European Cinema, Faces, Film Studies, George Hilton, Giallo, Guiliano Carnimeo, The Case of the Bloody iris, Words Leave a commentThe eloquence of this striking sequence is found in the mannered interplay between visual extremity, directed expression and studied response.
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Jason Statham – The Transporter (Cory Yuen, 2002) – First Section
Posted: July 29, 2009 Filed under: Action, Faces, Film, Film Studies, Finding Words | Tags: Action, Choreography, Cory Yuen, Faces, Film Studies, Jason Statham, Martial Arts, The Transporter, Words 1 CommentWidth and angle here provide the ideal opportunity to acknowledge the film’s old-fashioned fascination with outline, cut and choreography.
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