Overeducated sports writers log

[IdleRich]

No way is Malick anyone's favourite director.

 

[sus]

clearly you've never watched his films, no one's cinematography is close

 

[luka]

What does cinematography mean? I've never understood what it means

 

[sus]

like how does it get better than this


it's like that Auden poem: As the hawk sees it or the helmeted airman: The clouds rift suddenly - look there.

 

[luka]

I need cinematography explained to me. In simple language.

 

[pattycakes_]

How it looks

 

[luka]

How it looks

That's literally it? How shit looks?

 

[sus]

Malick's camera is restless, searching, existential, always trying to grasp the beyond. He studied philosophy in university, was a Heidegger fan

 

[luka]

part of the problem I have with Malick is his sense of beauty is the most basic National Geographic colour spread imaginable.

 

[sus]

The way his camera moves up into trees changed how I see them forever

 

[sus]

part of the problem I have with Malick is his sense of beauty is the most basic National Geographic colour spread imaginable.

wrong, educate yourself

 

[padraig (u.s.)]

No way is Malick anyone's favourite director

he's not my favorite, but he is unquestionably an all-time great

it's easy to forget since over the last decade he's devolved into a self-parody

but Badlands, Days of Heaven, The Thin Red Line and The New World is as good a string as anyone has put together in the last 50 years

 

[luka]

How can I do that? I've watched the films. Not all the way through cos I didn't like them. But I've watched some of the beginnings.

 

[luka]

That moment in the Pochahontas film where Colin Farrell does interpretative dance to cross the language barrier. That's where I drew a line through it. I've walked out of many cinemas but that one really stands out.

 

[sus]

he's not my favorite, but he is unquestionably an all-time great

it's easy to forget since over the last decade he's devolved into a self-parody

but Badlands, Days of Heaven, The Thin Red Line and The New World is as good a string as anyone has put together in the last 50 years

one take I like is that the decadence of his (late) form is supposed to support the decadence of the subject matter (seee Knight of Cups, Song of Songs especially). Living in the moment, an inability to take the long view, to build structure.

 

[sus]

It's okay Luka. There's just a kind of wiring to "get" DeLillo's Underworld, or Malick's writing. You just don't have what it takes. That doesn't necessarily make you a pseud, I mean it might, but I can't say for sure

 

[sus]

lushness, living form, spirituality

an inability to appreciate these things in art doesn't necessarily means you're broken as a person, maybe just that some part of you is broken, it doesn't have to be totalizing

 

[luka]

I am not going to rob you of your joys. I want to leave them intact so I am not going to pursue this discussion, what is your definition of cinematography?

 

[luka]

Did you like Colin Farrell doing interpretative dance in a forest?

 

[padraig (u.s.)]

That moment in the Pochahontas film where Colin Farrell does interpretative dance to cross the language barrier

The New World is admittedly where he begins to tip into unintentionally absurd self-parody

but it's also incumbent upon you the viewer to maintain suspension of disbelief

if art is easily mocked, the person who made it probably knows that and did it anyway

[shrugs] if you can't see the transcendent beauty in the opening and ending montages set to Das Vorspiel, idk what to tell you