Slow Screen Studies

Film & TV image analysis: #Screenstudies from alumnus @lfsorguk. (Warning...Spoilers!)

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#RobertRedford and @Janefonda in Electric Horseman and
a their smart workshop on image creation & manipulation.

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Act 1 set up - the main characters share the same sense of isolation.
- they are shades looking for their place...
(The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo)

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When the family enforce the blood line,
the art director and props get to work:
PRIZZIS HONOR (Huston, 1985)

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From one scene to the next, one world to another
- the rich possibilities of the haptic
(when an actor touches another)
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo #filmmaking

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Editing, censorship...oh what fun it was LA RONDE (#Ophuls)

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In keeping with #RobertRedford's ongoing interest in the state of journalism, THE COMPANY YOU KEEP details the struggles of a local newspaper under market pressures.
- This tiny but telling detail at the end is brilliant & subtle commentary.
#artdirection / #filmmaking

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'You must know how to help the actor...must make the objects you choose have some kind of significance...' Nicholas Ray, REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (1955)

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Is #Kubrick sneaking in the theme of EYES WIDE SHUT...?
#artdirection

[Todd Gitlin @toddgitlin]

The most beautiful stationary camera shot I've ever seen. The camera stands still so your heart can move.

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One exercise to share with students is to consider the shots as they appear in the menu - contrasts and comparisons #screenstudies
#filmeducation / #Antonioni / #filmstudies ZABRISKIE POINT (1970)

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Cop: Occupation?
- Associate professor of history.
Cop: That's too long. I'll just put down clerk.
#filmdialogue / ZABRISKIE POINT

[BJA Samuel @bja_samuel]

I am Cuba (1964) Dir Mikhail Kalatozov. Almost forgotten until its rediscovery, the film is a dazzling technical triumph using mind bogglingly innovative techniques and long tracking shots like this one..

#filmtwitter #film

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It started in black-and-white, but Warners wanted Warnercolor.
So Nicholas Ray gave them color.
- from mother to new love in REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (1955)

[Sergio Rodríguez @Sergiofordy]

#botd 1889 #CharlieChaplin
Kid Auto Races at Venice, 1914, directed by Henry Lehrman.
Charlie Chaplin as The Tramp.
Opening.
#ChaplinDay

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A wry nod to Bond - no Aston Martins in sight.
- yet Bond and Palmer both made by the
very canny Harry Salzman.
#BOTD #MichaelCaine

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Act 3. When Einar (#RobertRedford) and granddaughter Griff (Becca Gardner) finally get to work as a team, so does he costume department.
AN UNFINISHED LIFE (2005)

[XKCD Comic @xkcdComic]

Video Orientation https://t.co/NT1vlrYjg7 https://t.co/fg0aYBtJ2c

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@d_kompare @Variety Odd that the whole show that celebrates the movies
depends upon @ABCNetwork

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Is #Kubrick sneaking in the theme of EYES WIDE SHUT...?
#artdirection

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March 3rd and our birthday boy is George Miller...