glipress.blogspot.com — Every once in a while, a film comes along that takes an assumption about how American movies are supposed to be made and changes it, sometimes resulting in something truly memorable. The reward for taking the chance is recognition for being a really interesting experiment, or, in some cases, taking your place among the greatest films ever made.
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mahdaengMay 13, 2008
[[Requiem tried to hard to just be depressing]]Yeah, because being a drug addict is so un-depressing.
paranoydandroidMay 14, 2008
I saw The Tracey Fragments at a film festival and all I can say is that it is ... odd. The style is similar to the 4 shots on screen thing, but it's more like 10 on screen, all the damn time. My friends and I literally got a headache watching it. On top of which, I rate how unnecessarily "indie" films are on the "full grown men in a giant rabbit suit" scale, and this movie had 2 "rabbits" (fat clown in a cowboy hat, laughing. And lots of random horses).In other words, headache inducing indie bulls**t designed to make beret wearing, soul-patch having art students ejaculate in pleasure.
ronpaulblogscomMay 14, 2008
Most people consider it the best American movie ever made and it seems like 3 hours. It is like 1 hour and about 54 minutes. If Kevin Costner made it, it would be 3 hours.
darthciderMay 14, 2008
Lawrence of Arabia made setting the equivalent of a character, setting the bar for expansive cinematography. The moral ambiguity of the "good guy" was innovative. One of the first to use a time-shift in narrative. After Lawrence, it became a lot harder for any filmmaker to achieve masterpiece status.
finalpizzahutMay 14, 2008
"Russian Ark? This pisses me off that the poser would write about psycho later, yet fail to mention Hithc**ks "continuous" take film Rope. Which was done over half a decade prior to Russian Ark."Rope's co-called continuous shot was done with trickery, it wasn't one shot. I don't see how it's really comparable to Russian Ark. Sure, Hitchc**k had the idea, but he didn't actually pull it off. Why should he get credit?
enochrewtMay 14, 2008
A good example of wearing out your welcome with a one-trick pony is M. Night Shyamalan....
oobyMay 16, 2008
Maybe I'd enjoy it if the film had some compelling dialog. I can handle a black and white film just fine. I thoroughly enjoyed _Casablanca_ for example. Would it have killed him to make the movie even slightly interesting? Even if I disregard the straw man fallacy of your CGI monster argument, it still doesn’t hold water. Citizen Kane is renowned for its special effects, that is, its cinematography. I acknowledge that the camera work in the film is great, but I feel like it’s the only thing this movie has going for it. In a way, that makes Orson Wells as bad of a director as Michael Bay, whose movies are based purely on special effects and lack any other compelling substance.