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In Reply to: RE: Watched this tonight after having seen After The Wedding this past Sunday. posted by Tony D. on February 17, 2009 at 23:12:45
make you speak of being "witness to a great age of film"? If I'm understanding that correctly. Please explain that phrase.BTW, you might enjoy The Band's Visit. It's a smaller film but no less successful in conveying the same human qualities as these two. Delightful, really.
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As far as a list of films that have led me conceptualize this great age of film I mentioned it's not really like that.
Over the past few years I've seen a lot of movies (and only recently did I realize the ones I was most affected by were of a type) and when I went to see 'After The Wedding' I had a very personal....epiphany I guess that gelled into this idea that many film makers (mostly foreign and independent) were/are delving deep into the genesis of, quality/nature/limits of and 'shape' of our deepest humanity and how we express/use/experience are controlled by/rebel against and interact with the qualities that make us. They are also very interested in honesty, it's limits/qualities and what honesty really is.
IMO we are in a great age of film because these film makers are doing this by crafting art that is not navel gazing, self critical, self indulgent or exploitive but is honest in saying "Look, this is us." and this is all happening during what I would call a fairly dark and uncertain time....an age when we need this.
I have failed here to actually get across what I am feeling/thinking and I hope this doesn't sound like a bunch of gobbledygook but it's the best I can do right now while I mull this over some more.
J.B.
as they come to you. I'm sure I will benefit from them.
is coming to mind as a film that fits in that smaller but very human category.
"The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thanks for the title. It's already in queue.
I'm interested in the background to Tony D's statement/phrase. There's more to it than just a list of films, I suspect.
I look forward to your thoughts on the film... and I agree with what Tony said above... though I wouldn't have thought to say it myself.
The Edge Of Heaven arrives here from Netflix today.
"The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Of course there will be an occasional 'Revolutionary Road' which IMO destroyed a brilliant Richard Yates novel but further to my blatherings about the 'Great Age' we are all very fortunate to be witness to this.
A couple of weeks after I saw 'Gran Torino' I realized that Clint Eastwood has done his bit for the cause as well and it made me do a re-think of some of the themes he touched on in that film.
And they just keep coming.
J.B.
"Schulze" is a quirky, warm, odd little film with some great acting in it. Him finding his 'inner Cajun' is very touching.
I saw it with my wife after we had agreed to divorce, but were still living together. A strange night at the movies.
CC.
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