What I've Been Watching This August
[Currently listening to Bambi's Dilemma by Melt Banana]
FILMS I'VE WATCHED:
Susan Slept Here (1954) directed by Frank Tashlin
L'Age d'Or (1930) directed by Luis Buñuel
Shorts:
Porky Pig's Feat (1943) directed by Frank Tashlin
Entr'acte (1924) directed by René Clair
Zero for Conduct (1933) directed by Jean Vigo
La Jetée (1962) directed by Chris Marker
Films Rented:
Does Humor Belong in Music (1985) directed by Frank Zappa
Andrei Rublev (1969 ) directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
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I really haven't been watching that much this month, especially by last month's standard. Part of the reason for this is that I've been focusing my attention on other things that are more important to me at the moment, such as a few projects I've been working on and absorbed in recently.
I'm somewhat disappointed that I missed out on seeing a great bunch of rare Hollywood films screened as part of the Chauvel Cinematheque. I only managed to catch Frank Tashlin's Susan Slept Here, a troubling film (thematically speaking) in the sense that it glorifies a relationship between a 17 year old girl and a 35 year old man. Screened with Susan Slept Here was Tashlin's Porky Pig's Feat:
I caught a couple of 1920-30s surrealist films at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, including Rene Clair's 1925 Entr'acte. The film premiered at the 1924 Ballet production Relâche , where it screened during the interval. Both the ballet production and the Rene Clair film were scored by composer Erik Saite. You can watch the short film in good quality and sound at Ubu Web.
Entr'acte was screened together with Luis Buñuel's wonderful 1930 surrealist masterpiece L'Age d'Or, written in collaboration with Salvidor Dalí. Senses of Cinema have some great information on L'Age d'Or. I recommend this article on Buñuel as a good introudction and starting point.
The only other films I managed to catch at the Art Gallery of New South Wales were Jean Vigo's humorous and figuratively politically-laced 1933 Zero for Conduct, and Chris Marker's mighty La Jetée, a radical and experimental film of the 1960s made up entirely from still-image photographs.
I also managed to grab a few good DVDs off a friend of mine, namely Frank Zappa's Does Humor Belong in Music? and Andrei Tarkovsky's mammoth of a film that is Andrei Rublev. You can't really go wrong with Zappa, but I particularly enjoyed the tongue-in-cheek camp aesthetic smeared over the entire performance, such as in "Bobby Brown":
And to conclude this post, here are the opening scenes from Tarkovky's brilliant Andrei Rublev:
Links:
FILMS I'VE WATCHED:
Susan Slept Here (1954) directed by Frank Tashlin
L'Age d'Or (1930) directed by Luis Buñuel
Shorts:
Porky Pig's Feat (1943) directed by Frank Tashlin
Entr'acte (1924) directed by René Clair
Zero for Conduct (1933) directed by Jean Vigo
La Jetée (1962) directed by Chris Marker
Films Rented:
Does Humor Belong in Music (1985) directed by Frank Zappa
Andrei Rublev (1969 ) directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
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I really haven't been watching that much this month, especially by last month's standard. Part of the reason for this is that I've been focusing my attention on other things that are more important to me at the moment, such as a few projects I've been working on and absorbed in recently.
I'm somewhat disappointed that I missed out on seeing a great bunch of rare Hollywood films screened as part of the Chauvel Cinematheque. I only managed to catch Frank Tashlin's Susan Slept Here, a troubling film (thematically speaking) in the sense that it glorifies a relationship between a 17 year old girl and a 35 year old man. Screened with Susan Slept Here was Tashlin's Porky Pig's Feat:
I caught a couple of 1920-30s surrealist films at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, including Rene Clair's 1925 Entr'acte. The film premiered at the 1924 Ballet production Relâche , where it screened during the interval. Both the ballet production and the Rene Clair film were scored by composer Erik Saite. You can watch the short film in good quality and sound at Ubu Web.
Entr'acte was screened together with Luis Buñuel's wonderful 1930 surrealist masterpiece L'Age d'Or, written in collaboration with Salvidor Dalí. Senses of Cinema have some great information on L'Age d'Or. I recommend this article on Buñuel as a good introudction and starting point.
The only other films I managed to catch at the Art Gallery of New South Wales were Jean Vigo's humorous and figuratively politically-laced 1933 Zero for Conduct, and Chris Marker's mighty La Jetée, a radical and experimental film of the 1960s made up entirely from still-image photographs.
I also managed to grab a few good DVDs off a friend of mine, namely Frank Zappa's Does Humor Belong in Music? and Andrei Tarkovsky's mammoth of a film that is Andrei Rublev. You can't really go wrong with Zappa, but I particularly enjoyed the tongue-in-cheek camp aesthetic smeared over the entire performance, such as in "Bobby Brown":
And to conclude this post, here are the opening scenes from Tarkovky's brilliant Andrei Rublev:
Links:
Labels: AGNSW, Chauvel Cinematheque, Film
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