Antonioni

[kid charlemagne]

KID CHARLEMAGNE'S REDEMPTION.

Tonight I went out and saw The Passenger on the big screen in 35mm.... a film that version has recommended many times, we both love Jack and commend his run from 1969 to 1980. I was blown away really and truly. First of all, the premise is one of the best you can have for a film, but the location work, and how it informs upon the film's themes, is what is most remarkable. Identity and western colonialism, the great contrast we get between the beauty of what we see on screen, as we follow the western man, through the deserted ugliness of the worlds he deals in speaks everything that is unsaid. The film is a masterclass is letting the pictures speak for itself and requiring the viewer to infer and understand the settings and workings of the world, so many of the shots look like european hopper and wyeth.... complete stand stills in time.

Bravo Antonioni, you have a masterpiece and have earned my respect.

the version core of film remains undefeated.

 

[kid charlemagne]

 

[version]

If you get the Indicator Blu-ray, it has a very relaxed Nicholson doing the commentary track.

THE PASSENGER - BD

(Michelangelo Antonioni, 1975) Release date: 9 December 2019Standard Edition Blu-ray In one of the most acclaimed films of all time, Michelangelo Antonioni (Blow-up, Zabriskie Point) directed international star Jack Nicholson (The Last Detail, The Border, Wolf) and Maria Schneider (Last Tango in...

www.powerhousefilms.co.uk

 

[mixed_biscuits]

KID CHARLEMAGNE'S REDEMPTION.

Tonight I went out and saw The Passenger on the big screen in 35mm.... a film that version has recommended many times, we both love Jack and commend his run from 1969 to 1980. I was blown away really and truly. First of all, the premise is one of the best you can have for a film, but the location work, and how it informs upon the film's themes, is what is most remarkable. Identity and western colonialism, the great contrast we get between the beauty of what we see on screen, as we follow the western man, through the deserted ugliness of the worlds he deals in speaks everything that is unsaid. The film is a masterclass is letting the pictures speak for itself and requiring the viewer to infer and understand the settings and workings of the world, so many of the shots look like european hopper and wyeth.... complete stand stills in time.

Bravo Antonioni, you have a masterpiece and have earned my respect.

the version core of film remains undefeated.

Have you seen the new sequel, Passenger 57? I can't believe they've got this far.

 

[shakahislop]

saw red desert, really boring, everyone looked relieved when it was over, a subdued crowd of dutiful cinemagoers trudging out

 

[shakahislop]

all the bits with the massive factories and the industrial landscapes were brilliant

 

[shakahislop]

i fell asleep about four times

 

[william_kent]

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Yardbirds - Blow Up

like a precognition of a Brett Easton Ellis novel

 

[IdleRich]

saw red desert, really boring, everyone looked relieved when it was over, a subdued crowd of dutiful cinemagoers trudging out

I think it's one of those films that perfectly straddles that line between being really boring and being ace. I liked it a lot but don't ask me to say why. Certainly afterwards I thought about it for ages... and then forgot about it forever until now.

 

[shakahislop]

i think when someone is so highly regarded it's worth giving them a second chance. coz you don't want to cut yourself off from it coz maybe you'll actually love it, and sometimes you are just not receptive to what's it's putting out on that particular day. your brain is the most important part of the assemblage

 

[sus]

There's a thread running through that book about what slowing things down does to your perception of them and how the desert can do exactly that.

Desert is a place for old people I think. And Modernists. People who are OK living in hygenic dust. Not young people. For the young people, it is the jungle. Concrete or otherwise.

 

[sus]

Ursula le Guin loved the desert when she was old. She did her old person writing from the East Oregon diamond craters. The old Yellowstone hotspot. Magmatic activity passed through there a million years ago. Now it's dormant. I would retire to the desert I think. Not much maintenance. No hacking away at overgrowth. Just pulling the occasional tumbleweed off barbed wire.

 

[0bleak]

No hacking away at overgrowth. Just pulling the occasional tumbleweed off barbed wire.

and out from under your car before it sets on fire, and dodging them as they roll across the road lest another gets suck under your car
and having to evacuated because a fire that started from a bird/truck collision is now raging through the community

 

[IdleRich]

i think when someone is so highly regarded it's worth giving them a second chance. coz you don't want to cut yourself off from it coz maybe you'll actually love it, and sometimes you are just not receptive to what's it's putting out on that particular day. your brain is the most important part of the assemblage

You don't wanna be that guy on Amsazon giving the pyramids 3 star "not as big as I expected"

 

[kid charlemagne]

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