Showing posts with label PT Anderson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label PT Anderson. Show all posts

Friday, November 1, 2019

THE SCHOOL OF GODARD PART 5: MOVING IMAGERY

I admire Jean-Luc Godard and I think it's impossible for anyone making cinema to escape from his influence - Hal Hartley


We're continuing our look at Jean-Luc Godard's influence on modern cinema through some regular culprits (Harmony Korine, Hal Hartley & Leos Carax) as well as lesser-mentioned folks like Chantal Akerman, Seijun Suzuki and even the Farrelly Brothers...

Also make sure to check out the previous entries:


Yeah, it’ [The Girl From Monday]'s a conversation with Alphaville - Hal Hartley (Little White Lies)
Alphaville/The Girl From Monday
First Name: Carmen / Amateur
Pierrot Le Fou / 
Amateur
A Married Woman /
Amateur



Godard taught me a sense of freedom - Martin Scorsese (Interveiw Magazine)
Two Or Three Things I know About Her/Taxi Driver

Made In The USA/
Taxi Driver
A Married Woman / Who's That Knocking At My Door



Godard is one of my favourite film-makers. When I was young, I was obsessed by his films, and he’s still a favourite. I probably didn’t understand half of what he wanted to say, but what I did understand touched me, and when I see his films I see the whole, like what you hear when you’re listening to an orchestra - Harmony Korine (Vogue)
Band Of Outsider/
Gummo

I got a letter from Godard. It was hard to read, it was two lines and had coffee stains, something about passing the baton - Harmony Korine (Index Magazine)
Vivre Sa Vie / Julien Donkey Boy


I think the only people who really experienced film are people like Jean-Luc Godard, you know? He really experienced the texture - Claire Denis (Filmmaker Magazine)
Vivre Sa Vie / Trouble Every Day


In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from—it’s where you take them to - Jim Jarmusch (Movie Maker Magazine)
Pierrot Le Fou / Mystery Train


I saw Godard’s film, Pierrot Le Fou, and I had the feeling it was art, and that you could express yourself. It was in 1965, and you felt that the times were changing. He was really representing that, and freedom and poetry and another type of love and everything - Chantal Akerman
First Name: Carmen/Family Business

L'Amore/
Les Rendezvous D'Anna


Passion/Holy Motors

Breathless/Schizopolis

Band Of Outsiders/
Tokyo Drifter

First Name: Carmen/
Kingpin

Vivre Sa Vie/Faces

First Name: Carmen/Punch Drunk Love

A Married Woman / THX 1138

A Married Woman / The Perfect Human

A Marrried Woman / Life Of The Marionettes 

Friday, April 12, 2019

THE SCHOOL OF DREYER PART THREE: MOVING IMAGERY

I have no way of proving that most of these comparisons hold any weight. Lars Von Trier (Antichrist) has made his love for Dreyer known on many occasions, and it isn't completely out of left field to assume filmmakers like Ingmar Bergman & Tarkovsky (the generation that came after Dreyer) had some subconscious residue of influence. Ingmar Bergman has openly called Carl Theodor Dreyer an "amateur" yet at the same time he has also admitted that Dreyer's films "infected" him...

But beyond that, these are completely speculative (I doubt Sylvester Stallone, John Hughes or Charles Laughton set out to mimic or pay homage to Carl Theodor Dreyer in their respective works). I feel like I have to say that given the emotional & weirdly butt-hurt twitter cinephiles that get worked up over these movie comparisons (I know it's a crazy concept to accept that one filmmaker borrowed from another or that two unrelated moving images look similar when lined up next to each other)..

Vampyr / Andrei Rublev

Vampyr /
The Witch

Vampyr /
Antichrist

Ordet / The Night Of The Hunter

Ordet / The Hour Of The Wolf

The Passion Of Joan Of Arc / The Blair Witch Project

The Passion Of Joan Of Arc / Vera Drake

The Passion Of Joan Of Arc / To The Wonder

Vampyr / Mandy

The Passion Of Joan Of Arc / Creepshow

The Passion Of Joan Of Arc / Lil Quinquin

The Passion Of Joan Of Arc / Un Chein Andalou

Vampyr / Meshes Of The Afternoon

Once Upon A Time / Marie Antoinette

Vampyr / Home Alone
The Passion Of Joan Of Arc / Bad Lieutenant

The Passion Of Joan Of Arc /
Throne Of Blood

Ordet / Rocy 3 / Magnolia

Ordet / The Sound Of Music / Trouble Every Day

Monday, October 8, 2018

THE SCHOOL OF DREYER PART TWO: MOVING IMAGERY

This edition of the school of Dreyer is less focused/structured in comparison to part one but I think you'll find a few valid examples of his (possible) influence nonetheless.

Enjoy...

The Passion Of Joan Of Arc / Mad Max: Fury Road

Water From The Land / There Will Be Blood

The Passion Of Joan Of Arc / The Phantom Thread


Though this is very much a PTA original in the way it playfully fudges the line between fastidiousness and spontaneity, the film it recalls the most is 1964’s Gertrud, the dour final work by the Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer. Both films are concerned with the mysteries of love, but employing a unique (and uniquely austere) dramatic approach, they manage to drill right down to love’s masochistic core - Davey Jenkins, Little White Lies

Gertrud / The Phantom Thread
Gertrud / The Phantom Thread
Gertrud / The Phantom Thread


Vampyr / Terminator 2

The Passion Of Joan Of Arc / Jeanette: The Childhood of Joan Of Arc

MUBI: Camille Claudel 1915 was inspired by the artist’s medical records and correspondence with friends and family. Was Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc a big influence on your own approach?

Bruno Dumont: Yes. There were transcripts of Joan of Arc’s trial [that Dreyer used] and also both women were prisoners. So they are in the same state and both are tragic.


Day Of Wrath / Camille Claudel, 1915

Vampyr / The Transfiguration

They Took The Ferry / Sleepwalkers

Vampyr / The Ring

Vampyr / Meshes Of The Afternoon

Vampyr / Wild Strawberries / On War

Vampyr / Last Days

The Passion Of Joan Of Arc / Elizabeth

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