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Comment on TIFF 2012 – Day 3 by Dan

So, it sounds like you would NOT recommend Ruiz’ film? Is it that bad?

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Comment on TIFF 2012 – Day 3 by Darren

Dan, Ruiz was credited with directing 115 films, I’ve seen five or six of them, and Night Across the Street is often described as a kind of swan song that revisits many of his life-long obsessions,...

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Comment on Version 13 by Felix

I was thinking about (and then reading about) Susan Sontag when I suddenly thought about what was up with that guy (who I think referenced Sontag a lot) who ran that awesomely-designed film blog I...

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Comment on Ivan’s Childhood (1962) by Look!: “Ivan’s Childhood”; “La...

[...] Now that I’ve seen it, I look forward to reading more about it. Today, I started by reading Darren Hughes’ decade-old responses to it. -I also caught a 2009 film called La Pivellina (Little...

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Comment on Benito Cereno (1855) by Herman Melville: “Benito Cereno,” 1855 | A...

[...] four voices in more detail, I rely on Darren Hughes, who looked at the work in his paper, “That First Comprehensive Glance“ The “official” voice is that of the deposition section, which serves as...

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Comment on Blue is the Warmest Color (2013) by Darren

Just occurred to me that Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno's <em>Zidane: a 21st Century Portrait</em> might be the closest precedent for Kechiche's technique.

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Comment on Blue is the Warmest Color (2013) by JDR

what a lovely analysis of a technique (and it certainly is a technique) — I think you’ve hit upon something that’s really been missing in analyses of the film, although it should be noted that the C300...

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Comment on Blue is the Warmest Color (2013) by Darren

Thanks for the comments, JDR. The last few sentences of my post are lazy writing, but I’m okay with that because this is a blog post rather than an essay. (Granted, that distinction probably matters...

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Comment on Blue is the Warmest Color (2013) by Matthew Flanagan

‘extensive use of hi-def closeups + interesting faces (casting) + duration + realistic performances = the manufacture of feeling’ First thought: basically like Warhol, but not.

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Comment on Blue is the Warmest Color (2013) by Darren

Yep. Warhol definitely came to mind. Critics will often describe a film as a "portrait" of a character. <em>Blue</em> fits that description better than most. It's why I think...

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