What all of these superhero movies are actually doing.
buster bluth // buster keaton
The best thing! I miss this Arrested Development!
Before Sunrise (1995)
Before Sunset (2004)
Doesn’t have Jesse’s gesture in the car for the sake of symmetry, but I’ll forgive it this one time.
(Source: mrgolightly)
Guys! These are the best video games I’ve played in a long time
Corrypt
http://mightyvision.blogspot.co.nz/2012/12/corrypt.html
Game Title
http://www.glorioustrainwrecks.com/node/2258
Game Title: Lost Levels
http://www.glorioustrainwrecks.com/node/2268
All of them are incredibly simple from the start, and reach their mastery in the second half of the game, but it’s no less brilliant.
Orson Welles sounds a little too impressed with Buster Keaton’s face…
Sherlock Jr. (1924)
CB: How did you ever do the scene on the motorcycle? Is that a camera trick, or were you actually—
BK: No, there’s no camera tricks there.
CB: There is one shot where you can see the motorcycle from distance and see that it isn’t attached to anything. How did you manage to learn to do that?
BK: I’d Just go out and learn to handle a motorcycle on the handlebars. It wasn’t easy to keep balance. I got some nice spills though, from that thing.
(Source: nefariouscinephile)
wouldn’t you say that Linklater plays with the other end of it (à la Tarr) in, say, Waking Life?
I would disagree. In Waking Life, Linklater is consciously created a dream space. With a film like Tarr’s Werckmeister Harmonies, or Damnation or many other of his post Macbeth films, nothing in the film can be defined as a dream. Everything that happens in the film is not . What necessarily realistic, but possible. What makes those films dream-like is the way that Tarr films it and incorporates music, really the way they’re depicted. Waking Life’s rotoscoping art style is really what makes the film dream-like, more than anything else. The way it distorts and constantly changes the surroundings is what really defines the film and its dream space. It makes sense in the context of Slacker, which is incredibly similar to Waking Life, and shot similarly, but give completely different feelings because of that art style in Waking Life. Linklater’s dream space is also incredibly different than Tarr’s. His is hyper-aware and fast paced, whereas Tarr’s is slow and mysterious.
Why Film Formalism is Cool
Richard Linklater’s common techniques:
-Long, uninterrupted takes
-Long monologues or dialogue
-Philosophical references and focus
The Effect:
The film seems to exist in real time, with a heightened awareness of self and Ultra-realism
Bela Tarr’s common techniques:
-Long, uninterrupted takes
-Long monologues
-Philosophical references and focus
The Effect:
The film exists in a timeless space. Everything about your being and world is not felt but questioned, and achieves a dreamlike quality.
