Trappings, Jr.

"Melodrama, a mad profusion of professional lingo, and whips in the bedroom notwithstanding, A..."

Wed, 08 Aug 2012 22:56:48 -0400

“Melodrama, a mad profusion of professional lingo, and whips in the bedroom notwithstanding, A Dangerous Method is a spare, if not austere movie, Bressonian in its ellipticality and compression of time. The passage of months, even years, are often marked by an abruptly closed or opened door. Howard Shore’s score, poised between late Beethoven and early Wagner is discreetly expressive. What makes the form of the film as radical as its underlying subject—Freud’s concept of the unconscious—is the monkey wrench Cronenberg throws into the construction of two shots, three shots, and reverse-angle POVs (or shot/countershot sequences as they are customarily termed). In recent movies, Cronenberg has favored a somewhat wide-angle lens that flattens space, making the actor in the foreground seem disproportionately large in comparison to the actor in the background. Most directors who use wide-angle lenses try to cover this distortion through movement. Here, however, particularly in the “talking cure” scenes, Cronenberg employs the disproportion to reveal something about subjectivity: how one’s self-involvement can dwarf one’s perception and comprehension of the other, or vice versa. A Dangerous Method thereby becomes a tragic study of the absence of true reciprocity in human relations.”

- Amy Taubin, Film Comment (via cheremill)

chere mill page.: Growing pains.

Mon, 06 Aug 2012 19:48:05 -0400

chere mill page.: Growing pains.:

cheremill:

Hardly a stranger to human desperation and fragility, the title Dark Horse could be used to describe the universe of Todd Solondz. His highly afflicted, flawed characters possess underdog tendencies; a world not unlike our own. Horse is unflinching, biting, and arguably Solondz’ toughest…

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My review at DVDTalk.

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My review at DVDTalk.

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http://www.salon.com/news/music/index.html?story=/ent/music/2011/...

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http://www.salon.com/news/music/index.html?story=/ent/music/2011/09/10/wild_flag

Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s A Screaming Man (Un Homme qui...

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 21:17:21 -0400

Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s A Screaming Man (Un Homme qui crie). My review at DVDTalk.

Pedro Costa’s Ne Change Rien. (My translation of the title...

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 21:11:00 -0400

Pedro Costa’s Ne Change Rien. (My translation of the title would be “Don’t Change A Thing.”) My review at DVDTalk.

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Tue, 09 Aug 2011 00:10:03 -0400

I will soon be posting a catching-up bounty of the films...

Tue, 09 Aug 2011 00:09:00 -0400

I will soon be posting a catching-up bounty of the films I’ve watched in my (unintentionally) tumblr-free interval. Meanwhile, my attention has also been caught by some music-related things….

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Fri, 17 Jun 2011 23:51:28 -0400

DELUGE!

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 00:34:55 -0400

I’m sorry for the deluge, everyone. I’m playing catch-up; all those images represent a couple of weeks’ worth of viewing….

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