Posts tagged The Story of Film An Odyssey
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* ‘Lewis claims the unbroken shot covers 2 miles of ground’ !
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neorealist rubble vs raging rumble
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‘It’s in the 1930s that Poland makes its first major contribution to the story of film. Men carry a mirrored wardrobe. The Themersons loved to play with light. 30 years later Poland’s most famous filmmaker’ seemed to remember the Two Men and a Wardrobe.


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‘a world perhaps his unconscious mind where gravity doesn’t apply’ (x2)


(* ‘In Le sang d’un poète the set was shot on its side and the action was reversed, the simple techniques of early cinema and surrealism’)
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‘People say that realistic acting began with Brando in America, but look at Ruan Lingyu here. Today “the Chinese Greta Garbo” appears in almost no film encyclopedia.’
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‘but Mizoguchi got there first.’
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