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See Salo! Whatever you think of it you'll never forget some of those images!!
By sheer coincidence Film Four are showing Persona tonight at 2.30 am!
I hate film Four!
I enjoy Tarkovsky quite a lot, although sometimes those long takes don't add the emotional depth that I think they oughta to be adding (if that ws their intention in the first place - I want to read his writings). So annoying how "Solaris" is placed alongside "2001" - really dislike the latter.
Sergei Paradjanov is also incredible - caught a screening of "Colour of Pomegranates" a couple of weeks ago, a series of episodes on the life of medieval Armenian poet Sayat Nova. He is placed alongside Tarkovsky but there are differences I think.
Alain Resnais is someone else whose films I've been really enjoying this year. Also Akermann's "Jeanne Dielman".
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By sheer coincidence Film Four are showing Persona tonight at 2.30 am! Fantastic! Late night for Ian (still haven't figured out how to get the Freeview box and the video recorder (remember them?) to talk to each other, so I need to watch it). By all accounts, it's one of his very best films. |
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'These acts of keeping politics out of music, however, do not prevent musicology from being a political act . . .they assure that every apolitical act assumes a greater political immediacy' - Philip Bohlman, 'Musicology as a Political Act'
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« Reply #17 on: 21:59:55, 30-07-2007 » |
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By sheer coincidence Film Four are showing Persona tonight at 2.30 am! Fantastic! Late night for Ian (still haven't figured out how to get the Freeview box and the video recorder (remember them?) to talk to each other, so I need to watch it). By all accounts, it's one of his very best films. Have you tried putting the Freeview box output into the AV input on the video recorder, rather than the back of theTV (which is what I do with my cable set-top box - it works for me). |
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At every one of these [classical] concerts in England you will find rows of weary people who are there, not because they really like classical music, but because they think they ought to like it. (Shaw, Don Juan in Hell)
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« Reply #18 on: 22:11:41, 30-07-2007 » |
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See I don't have a cable set top box or anything...really need to figure this out as I'm missing quite a bit (Film Four Four are also screening Wadja's trilogy).
Tomorrow its Erice's "Spirit of the Beehive" at a more manageable 11.30pm on BBC Four.
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« Reply #19 on: 22:52:16, 30-07-2007 » |
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Thanks for pointing this out! Ron has two options for recording DVD - there's an HDD/DVD recorder and the special satellite elgato box which links to the mac, so one way or another he ought to be covered ... he just keeps forgetting to look out for Film Four.
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« Reply #20 on: 23:17:14, 30-07-2007 » |
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I don't know if anyone has Newsnight on at the moment, but if so, are you as irritated as I am by Jeremy Paxman questioning Richard Eyre, who is presenting his appreciation of Bergman, with Paxman talking disdainfully about how his films were too depressing, and not entertaining enough:?
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« Reply #21 on: 01:13:37, 31-07-2007 » |
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A few days ago, I viewed an off-air recording of the two part Arena programme shown to celebrate Ingmar Bergman's 89th birthday. Swedish TV director, Marie Nyrerod travelled to the remote island of Faro to talk to him and review his career in 2003. I trust that it will be screened again on BBC 4(it went out on 13 and 14 July) and they complemented the transmission with a showing of "Sawdust & Tinsel" (1953).
How well I remember the retrospective seasons of Bergman films at the Everyman cinema, in Hampstead, in the 1960's. 2/- (10 pence) for a couple of hours of magic.
His biography, The Magic Lantern, published by Hamish Hamilton in 1988 is worth acquiring. He can be harshly critical and funny as he explores the nature of love and friendship, the enclosed world of the actor and his audience, the delicate and indeed loving relationship between the director and his actors - a world away from, say, Alfred Hitchcock.
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« Reply #22 on: 08:20:38, 31-07-2007 » |
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I don't know if anyone has Newsnight on at the moment, but if so, are you as irritated as I am by Jeremy Paxman questioning Richard Eyre, who is presenting his appreciation of Bergman, with Paxman talking disdainfully about how his films were too depressing, and not entertaining enough:?
That's rich, coming from a Newsnight presenter!   Oh, I don't know though. For some reason Newsnight feels the need to include more daft visual effects in one edition than Bergman felt necessary in order to make his points in a whole career. Sometimes I wonder if Chris Morris died in vain. It was a very odd interview, wasn't it, with Eyre presumably expecting to say a few measured elegaic words, including a few criticisms, and instead getting the full Paxman "Why is this bastard lying to me?" schtick. Most peculiar. |
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« Reply #24 on: 14:58:06, 31-07-2007 » |
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# 26 More sad news, Evan Johnson, but thank you for the link you provided.
Oddly, when posting about the Ingmar Bergman seasons at the Everyman, Hampstead, earlier today, I also thought about their annual coverage of "A Look at Antonioni"; "Another Look at Antonioni" seasons throughout the 60s. "L'avventura"(1959), "La Notte" (1960) and "The Red Desert"(1964) always favourites with me. And "Blow-up" (1967) amusingly reflecting Swinging London also caught the mood of the age - and managed to be a commercial success, too.
A retrospective season of Bergman and Antonioni films would brighten the summer TV doldrums.
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« Reply #25 on: 18:46:24, 31-07-2007 » |
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Didn't think it was that strange George - Paxman interviews everybody and their grandmother as if they're all big sleazy lying politicians. Hopeless!
Amazing for Antonioni to pass away today.
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« Reply #26 on: 09:53:24, 01-08-2007 » |
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Ingmar Bergman was a great film director but let us not forget that he was also a man of the theatre. It is indeed a bit amazing for Antonioni to pass away today. Last week, we've also lost George Tabori.  |
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« Reply #27 on: 12:02:53, 01-08-2007 » |
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Ingmar Bergman was a great film director but let us not forget that he was also a man of the theatre. That's funny Pim, because reading this thread the last few days I was going to say you could almost forget he was a film director!  |
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« Reply #28 on: 13:54:20, 01-08-2007 » |
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That's funny Pim, because reading this thread the last few days I was going to say you could almost forget he was a film director! Really?  |
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