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| The Batman | Sep 15 2010, 06:05 AM Post #16 |
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Lucky guy, it doesn't ship up here until September 21st. |
| Always be yourself! Unless you can be Batman...then always be Batman! | |
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| Stony Brooke da Mesquiteer | Sep 15 2010, 06:21 AM Post #17 |
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I see that Kino has taken the cash from my account, so hopefully I'll receive this today or tomorrow. |
| It's like Rodney King used to say, "Can't we all get a bong." | |
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| Fantomas | Sep 19 2010, 07:40 PM Post #18 |
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Balcony Gang, Foist Class
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Dave Kehr's review of the FANTOMAS DVD appears in today's Sunday Times. Here's an excerpt. (Nice last line, huh?): "In the oppressively orderly culture of prewar Europe, “Fantômas” offered a fantasy of violent escape and perfect autonomy. Feuillade’s films tapped into the same pent-up reserves of boredom and frustration that led many young intellectuals to welcome the Great War when it broke out in the summer of 1914, immediately putting an end to the “Fantômas” series. The fifth episode, released in May 1914, has an open ending, suggesting that more would have come had reality not intervened. If “Fantômas” coincided with the end of one kind of Europe, it also lives in the twilight of a certain kind of filmmaking. Stylistically it still belongs to early cinema in the sense that it makes little use of the techniques of analytical editing and parallel montage that D. W. Griffith and others had begun to develop in the United Stages. Instead, Feuillade stages his scenes in the earlier manner, as they might be witnessed by a spectator sitting in the auditorium of a theater, using long takes to cover action presented within a proscenium space. For generations this early tableau style was dismissed by historians as primitive and uncinematic, but Feuillade’s work is the perfect illustration of how dynamic and expressive it could be. The opening scene of Episode 3, “The Murderous Corpse,” makes a very sophisticated use of blocking and composition to direct the viewer’s eye to different areas of the frame as characters enter and leave a second-hand clothing shop, climaxing with the revelation of a trap door leading to one of Fantômas’s secret escape routes. What might have been visual chaos in the hands of another director here seems crisp, clear and logical. There may be no cutting within the scene, but Feuillade’s way of sequentially focusing attention on different details makes it seem as if there were. Those same long takes help to create a languorous, lulling rhythm that, to eyes accustomed to the frenzied cutting of today’s Hollywood blockbusters, seems curiously at odds with the often convulsive action. The most violent shoot-outs proceed with stately, underwater grace, creating a dreamlike atmosphere that is at once real and unreal. At times Feuillade seems to have jumped over the entire period of classical filmmaking to arrive somewhere in that heightened sense of materiality that characterizes such modernist masterpieces as Roberto Rossellini’s “Voyage to Italy” or “L’Eclisse” by Michelangelo Antonioni. An image of wooden barrels lined up by a loading dock has its own powerful geometry and presence even before gunmen begin popping out of them like figures in a Whac-a-Mole game. What the spectator of 1913 would have experienced as heart-pounding sensation now seems as beautiful and gratuitous as a modern dance or abstract sculpture. Form has devoured content, leaving only art behind." Edited by Fantomas, Sep 19 2010, 07:41 PM.
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| Laughing Gravy | Sep 19 2010, 10:37 PM Post #19 |
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The whole thing: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/19/movies/homevideo/19kehr.html?_r=1 |
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| Stony Brooke da Mesquiteer | Sep 20 2010, 03:13 AM Post #20 |
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I thought I would translate this into Spanish for the bilingual-challanged Balconeers. Thing=enchilada. Whole=cerveza. The whole thing =enchilada + beer. Now I know you're confused by the usage of the term "The whole enchilada". Fret not. The phrase simply refers to an enchilada dinner (one beef, one chicken, one bean and one cheese) and a six pack (usually Negra Modello). Damn... too bad it's breakfast time! |
| It's like Rodney King used to say, "Can't we all get a bong." | |
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| panzer the great & terrible | Sep 20 2010, 08:05 AM Post #21 |
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Thank God we have somebody who can explain this stuff. On a family website I can't even say what I thought "the whole thing" means. |
| Life is just a bowl of cherries, it's too mysterious, don't take it serious... | |
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| Stony Brooke da Mesquiteer | Sep 20 2010, 01:44 PM Post #22 |
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Guess what was in my mailbox when I got home from work today? If you guessed Kino's Fantomas, then you are today's lucky winner. To claim your prize: send Gravy your home address and he'll come over and give you a foot massage... lucky you! |
| It's like Rodney King used to say, "Can't we all get a bong." | |
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| panzer the great & terrible | Sep 21 2010, 06:08 AM Post #23 |
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Ew. Creepy. So have you watched the scene with the barrels yet? Dave Kehr seems to think it's some kind of modernist triumph but there are others who think it's really dumb. I lean towards the latter party, though it isn't one of those images that Feuillade lingers over so long I get bored. One example is the last shot in the "Severed Head" episode of Les Vampires. It's The Grand Vampire all in black, including a black hood, using a drainpipe to get down off a very high roof. All in one shot we see him climb all the way down. Pretty arresting at first, but then it goes on. And on. Speaking of that severed head, we never see the whole thing, but what little we do see is obviously papier-maché. Classics are not made of such moments. |
| Life is just a bowl of cherries, it's too mysterious, don't take it serious... | |
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| JazzGuyy | Sep 22 2010, 10:57 AM Post #24 |
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Here's DVD Savant's review: http://www.dvdtalk.com/dvdsavant/s3277fant.html |
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