Left-handed champs, unite! That's some nice handwriting. I have not touched a fancy a fancy pen since high school. did you learn to write with a fountain pen in high school? We had to write our homework and exams with this type of pen, called a 'stylo' in french. -stylo-plume-parker-35-milleraies-a...

I once heard Serge Daney say that he was first very compelled by Guy Debord " La société du spectacle " but later rejected it , anyone as more info on the subject it was during an interview and I don't know if it was mentioned in his writings or not...

To my mind, though, that was always the case - the hobbyists writing their little magazines were always the worst served financially, because they weren't in it for the money and their audience was so small. I've always loved Rosenbaum's acceptance of this situation: emphasizing the quality of one'...

Also, Rosenbaum just did an article on the broader subject yesterday ! It goes well with what Evelyn and you were saying but the flip side is that some sort of income would help most for film study expenses

Speaking only for myself, I wouldn't care to monetize the stuff I do in a spirit of hobbyism and play; if I were equipped (discipline and energy) to do formal, academic style work, that would be different, but I'm too aware of my ability to be wrong about a movie to charge for my output. Also, my s...

Interesting idea! I can't help on a practical level, as I don't know coding or anything. The biggest question mark I'd raise is it seems likely that a lot of the people participating in writing would also be the people paying, and the risk would be that almost no one would actually wind up with mor...

I basically just came up with an idea that might change the way film reviews are monetised by copying the formula Twitch streamers use to monetise their platform. This would mean implimating a subsciption based system on letterboxd while still allowing people who do not want to subscribe to a user t...

nrh wrote: ↑Mon Apr 19, 2021 8:19 pm i wish kubrick had lived long enough to make more schnitzler adaptations starring tom cruise. cruise would have made a terrific lead in "casanova's return to venice."

Casanova by Fellini seems really good, maybe use it to cope a little

did we never have a maps in movies thread? that seems like the kind of thread we would have had. would be really fun, i would add the matrix scene where he shows the code of the matrix since it's technically a map of the digital world. He even says he only sees "blond, brunette" or whatev...

twodeadmagpies wrote: ↑Mon Apr 19, 2021 8:01 pm

Otello Cagliostro wrote: ↑Mon Apr 19, 2021 6:02 pm Maps in movies is one of the most beautiful things ever

absolutely! the cine-tourist died recently but his website is a now-stilled treasure trove of such things

https://www.thecinetourist.net/

what an amazing find, thanks a lot !

I feel that he is the type that you really like at the start of your cinephilia than move on to something else but finally come back to a while after, i'm starting to really like Full Metal Jacket even with the criticisms that it ressembles Sam Peckinpah and that the 2nd part is not as good. I alway...

Maps in movies is one of the most beautiful things ever

i'm not a super fan of Kubrick but there as always been a topic that intreged me about him, his supposed hate of The wizard of Oz. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Stanley_Kubrick_in_Dr._Strangelove.jpg/280px-Stanley_Kubrick_in_Dr._Strangelove.jpg What do you guys think abou...

If you guys speak french i advise you all to watch Jean Baptiste thoret reviews on youtube maybe my favorit modern critic. Sadly he only partialy enjoys Scorsese so i'll probably never do a book about him.

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thanks ! even if technically it's not peplum since it's not greco-roman There's also a wonderful Robin Hood film by the great Giorgio Ferroni called L’arciere di fuoco (1971) with the great Giuliano Gemma in the lead - as far as non-pepla but similarly playful italian films from the 50s to 70s set ...

thanks ! even if technically it's not peplum since it's not greco-roman There's also a wonderful Robin Hood film by the great Giorgio Ferroni called L’arciere di fuoco (1971) with the great Giuliano Gemma in the lead - as far as non-pepla but similarly playful italian films from the 50s to 70s set ...

St. Gloede wrote: ↑Thu Mar 25, 2021 8:33 am Knives of the Avenger is worthwhile as well - saw it specifically due to my then overt interest in Bava though, hardly explored sword and sandals films (even had to look up what peplum referred to).

thanks ! even if technically it's not peplum since it's not greco-roman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0ETtig ... &index=301

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yIiHzMN1kQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MusWbRR5QQU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-JHVnehtWw

Bava worked on several peplum, including as the camera operator for '54 Ulysses and as the cinematographer for 58's Hercules. He then directed a few: Erik the Conqueror (which is worth seeing), Knives of the Avenger (haven't seen), and Hercules in the Haunted World, which is absolutely splendid. A ...

I do like Bordwell and company a lot, despite my criticisms above, so I should add that another virtue of their work is that they offered a film theory approach that wasn't, in my judgment, nonsense derived from pseudoscientific continental European philosophy, like Lacan or Deleuze, at a time when...

rischka wrote: ↑Tue Mar 23, 2021 4:21 pm bava & cottafavi. benvenuto

Didn't know Bava worked in the genre, thank you for the recommandation and for having me

I heard Bazin was pretty skeptical of author theory but still let it be published at the Cahiers, i can't really find anymore information on it (or maybe i didn't look hard enough) but I though that was interesting. Bazin outlines his reservations about auteurism and his editorial approach here: ht...

flip wrote: ↑Tue Mar 23, 2021 12:19 pm

Otello Cagliostro wrote: ↑Tue Mar 23, 2021 9:45 am and are you a fellow french speaker ?

welcome to scfz! i'm in montréal, so i speak french every day, but it's definitely my second language.

Tabernacle, in France people are always saying that québécois hand over there pocket money with a smile.

My favorit as a kid was Mario Camerini Ulysses (1954) it's the best adaptation of the odyssey in my opinion. Need to watch that one! It's with Kirk Douglas as Odysseus, n'est-ce pas? Exactly, and Silvana Mangano plays both Circée and Penelope that was a really good understanding of the book ! Certa...

My favorit as a kid was Mario Camerini Ulysses (1954) it's the best adaptation of the odyssey in my opinion. i had a strange encounter with this film (at least i believe the film on the pics below is the one) while visiting (in March 2019) an exhibition dedicated to Hungarian action art. i did plen...

Slavoj Žižek, From the dead I like André Bazin, Zizek and Bordwell have beef haha it's pretty funny they wrote several articles against each other. I heard Bazin was pretty skeptical of author theory but still let it be published at the Cahiers, i can't really find anymore information on it (or may...

My favorit as a kid was Mario Camerini Ulysses (1954) it's the best adaptation of the odyssey in my opinion. Need to watch that one! It's with Kirk Douglas as Odysseus, n'est-ce pas? Exactly, and Silvana Mangano plays both Circée and Penelope that was a really good understanding of the book ! Certa...

Serge Daney, André Bazin, Rosenbaum and Bordwell are my go to also the guys at Senses of Cinema do some good articles. Im pretty new to film critics and analysis i used to just watch a movie 50 times to kind of get the point. Serge Daney as some really great interviews on youtube who are only availa...

My favorit as a kid was Mario Camerini Ulysses (1954) it's the best adaptation of the odyssey in my opinion.