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- Is there a blog in this class' 2010
Kristin here: Update: Back in the spring we announced that the University of Chicago Press will be publishing a collection of our blog entries. Now that volume is in press and has a title: Minding [...]
- No coincidence, no story
Serendipity. I?ve been thinking about coincidences lately. Watching Hong Kong movies can do that to you. Hong Kong vs. Hollywood? Initial D; I Corrupt All Cops. In Initial D (2005, Andrew Lau [...]
- Never too late silents
Underworld Kristin here: At last one of the gaping holes in the repertoire of classics on DVD has been filled. Tomorrow the Criterion Collection is releasing a three-disc set of Josef von Sternberg?s [...]
- TV Ennui: Are Viewers Totally Content, or Just Really Averse to Change'
- Revisiting INCEPTION
Inception. Heading cross-country from Chicago in Dad’s old Honda Prelude, we’re no further than Wisconsin on the first day when Jonah turns from the passenger seat and tells me he’s [...]
- INCEPTION; or, Dream a Little Dream within a Dream with Me
Kristin here: Inception reminds me of the common claim that Hollywood films are no longer character-centered. Special effects and slam-bang action supposedly have replaced character traits as the [...]
- Tintinopolis
Photo by David Bordwell, July 2009. Tous droits réservés. DB here: He?s the world?s most famous fictional Belgian, miles ahead of Hercule Poirot. But I ignored him for about sixty years. Tintin wasn?t [...]
- Research you can bid on
Gift bag from the New Line Cannes party of 2001 Kristin here: Two days after I returned from ?Il Cinema Ritrovato? in Bologna, the ?On, Archives!? symposium began here in Madison. The Wisconsin Center [...]
- The long right wall explained
When the Clouds Roll By (Victor Fleming, 1919); So Close (Yuen Kwai, 2002). DB here: Kristin will be posting a new entry in the next couple of days, but in the meantime, here’s news of another [...]
- Ledoux's legacy
DB here: Every summer Brussels hosts one of the world?s most unusual film festivals. By global standards it?s a small event: it showcases only twenty or so titles, each screened twice. The films are [...]
- A serial for the unserious
Please silence your mobile phone during the film! Le Pied qui étreint 1: Le Micro bafouilleur sans fil (1916). DB here, still in Yurrp: Today the Cinémathèque Française will celebrate Bastille Day by [...]
- Capellani ritrovato
Aladin ou la lampe merveilleuse. Kristin here– Back in the 1980s and early 1990s, researchers into silent cinema became used to the discovery of little-known auteurs. The 1910s proved an [...]
- Quick Feet' on PBS World ' July 9.
On July 9th my short film Quick Feet, Soft Hands will be on nearly a hundred PBS stations across the country, including stations in New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Dallas/Ft. Worth, and Boston. [...]
- July 4
The Fourth of July is not only America?s birthday, but also the anniversary of one of the boldest experiments in American letters. On July 4, 1845, Henry David Thoreau moved into a small cabin near [...]
- More cinema Bolognese
Josette Andriot, decked out for Protéa. Kristin here, with more from Cinema Ritrovato in Bologna: When one thinks of female masters of disguise and action in the silent cinema, Musidora as Irma Vep in [...]
- Everybody's Irish
Three Bad Men (1926) at the Piazza Maggiore; Orchestra del Teatro Communale di Bologna conducted by Timothy Brock. Photo by Lorenzo Burlando. DB, still in Bologna: The early Ford retrospective at [...]
- How do you make a filmmaker cry'
It seems like I can’t go a month without hearing that yet another filmmaker I know has lost a project due to having a hard drive fail and not having a back up. Most recently, it was some kids [...]
- John Ford, silent man
John Ford on the set of Air Mail (1932). DB here: This is the busiest installment of Cinema Ritrovato I can recall. We scarcely have time to sleep, let alone blog. The coordinators Peter von Bagh, [...]
- DSLRs, 'Democratic Technology' and The Cost of Bokeh: Part 2
This is the second of two posts considering the rewards and challenges of using DSLRs for cinema work. If you’ve not read the first post, start there. At the end of the last post we had [...]
- DSLRs, 'Democratic Technology' and The Cost of Bokeh: Part 2
This is the second of two posts considering the rewards and challenges of using DSLRs for cinema work. If you’ve not read the first post, start there. At the end of the last post we had [...]
- Off to Yurrp; but first'.
Photo by Marc Vernet. DB here: Over the last few weeks we’ve added a fair amount of material to this site. As Kristin and I pack for our annual trip to Cinema Ritrovato (Ford! Godard! Donen! [...]
- DSLRs, Democratic Technology and The Cost of Bokeh: Part 1
DSLR filmmaking has been much ballyhooed in the last year or so. Cameras like the Canon 5D Mark II and Canon 7D have been hailed as the lastest in a long line of “democratizing” motion [...]
- DSLRs, Democratic Technology and The Cost of Bokeh: Part 1
DSLR filmmaking has been much ballyhooed in the last year or so. Cameras like the Canon 5D Mark II and Canon 7D have been hailed as the lastest in a long line of “democratizing” motion [...]
- Now you see it, now you can't
DB here: We usually respond to films spontaneously, but afterward we can think about our responses and figure out why we reacted as we did. When we?re fooled by a mystery, for instance, we can [...]
- My Two Favorite Resources on DSLR Filmmaking
My absence for the past few months has been due to the fact that I’ve been woodshedding, as folks in the Jazz world would say. One of the things I’ve been doing is writing. When I’m [...]
- My Two Favorite Resources on DSLR Filmmaking
My absence for the past few months has been due to the fact that I’ve been woodshedding, as folks in the Jazz world would say. One of the things I’ve been doing is writing. When I’m [...]
- Dreyer re-reconsidered
The President (1920). DB here: I was late to the feast, but my contribution to the Dreyer site is now up, thanks to Lisbeth Richter Larsen’s quick work. You can read it here. Danish cinema was [...]
- Glancing backward, mostly at critics
The Mortal Storm (1940). DB bere: As Freud?s mom says in Huston?s film, ?Memory plays queer tricks, Siggy.? Herewith, some journeys into the past, launched on a lazy June afternoon. Ten-best lists are [...]
- Notes and quotes from the PGA's 2010 "Produced By" conference
- Ten links for today's DIY panel at the "Produced By" conference