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10,000 Ways To Die
Posted on July 13, 2008 by latenighter
After watching Alex Cox’s Walker, I decided to see what else was out there about the director and we came across this
http://www.alexcox.com/freestuff.htm
Here I found a book that Cox wrote about the Spaghetti Western and some reviews he had written in the past. Looks good. Check it out.
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Dreams of Decadence 3 – Grillet’s Generators
Posted on July 9, 2008 by latenighter
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These quotes explain the difference between Continental and European film making, in terms of how visuals and plot interact within genre conventions.
” Plots come to consist of what Alain Robbe-Grillet, in a literary context, called ‘generators’. That’s to say they are launching off points for both audience and film-maker into a shared world [...]
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Grillet on Cinebeats
Posted on July 8, 2008 by latenighter
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Two for one, this one. Alain Robbe-Grillet is a figure who will come into play with future posts. I haven’t read him or seen his movies but I am intrigued. Sadly, he passed on February 18th of this year. This photo is from Kimberly Lindbergs’ wonderful blog, Cinebeats. While Hollywood [...]
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Investigating Harry Moseby
Posted on July 6, 2008 by latenighter
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Harry Moseby Confidential, a 70s movie Blog by Jeremy Richey, is a nice piece work both in form and substance. Check it out. This week has been a tribute to Four Flies on Grey Velvet, Dario Argento’s third film. Be sure to explore.
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Dreams of Decadence 2 – American Realism
Posted on July 5, 2008 by latenighter
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“In Browning’s Dracula (1931) and Whale’s The Bride of Frankenstein (1935), the American model [of horror] had largely abandoned the expressionistic experiments of the 1920s…”
“As an anonymous newspaper reviewer put it, in a passage quoted by John Brosnan: ‘… American audiences demand realism in their stories, and in their photography at least apparent [...]
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Dreams of Decadence 1 – Sleep of Reason
Posted on July 4, 2008 by latenighter
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“[Goya] In describing his series of prints called Los Caprichos he wrote: ‘Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of its arts and the origins of its marvels’…”
“In the imagination at least, the primacy of reason has been overthrown. Now what was important was how deep [...]
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