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January 29, 2011

2010: At A Glance

Posted by Just Another Film Buff under All Posts, Super Scenes
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  1. Sam Juliano Says:

    January 30, 2011 at 4:23 am

    hahahahaha JAFB!

    I had identified CARLOS, SHUTTER ISLAND and CERTIFIED COPY, but drew blanks here on the others. But I now see you can find the answers by just holding the cursor over the pictures! Ha! Amazing what technology will get you!

    Anyway, exquisite, top-drawer choices. I do plan on seeing several of these, a few of which are here with your generosity!

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    1. Just Another Film Buff Says:

      January 30, 2011 at 10:04 pm

      Hehe, Yes, Sam. Hope you get to see them all ASAP!

      Thanks and cheers!

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  2. The Zoe Says:

    January 30, 2011 at 8:22 pm

    Top-drawer stuff. There is something truly powerful about seeing entire films (5 hour long films at that) get reduced to a single still – a fleeting transient moment. But that is precisely how we remember films, their durations amputated and amputated further till they are just memories in passing.

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    1. Just Another Film Buff Says:

      January 30, 2011 at 10:05 pm

      Precisely, precisely. That’s what cinephilia is all about, I think: the search for that elusive nucleus.

      Thanks Zoe!

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  3. “The Big Heat,” “Human Desire,” “Woman in the Window,” “Scarlet Street,” “Biutiful” and Stage Play “Molly Sweeney” on Monday Morning Diary (January 31) « Wonders in the Dark Says:

    January 31, 2011 at 10:55 am

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  4. Just Another Film Buff Says:

    February 1, 2011 at 12:17 am

    Speaking of CARLOS, there is a remarkable moment right after the screencap here, where Carlos lets out a smug, self-satisfactory smile that I’d missed the first time around. It’s a throwaway treasure – one that is sure to be missed if not observed with surgical precision or if seen in an inferior copy of the film – which presents the elusive Carlos in total nakedness. Wonder how many such moments are there throughout.

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  5. Omar Says:

    February 1, 2011 at 3:25 pm

    Nicely done. I know all of the rest but what about ‘Tuesday after Christmas’ – what can you tell us about this one?

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    1. Just Another Film Buff Says:

      February 1, 2011 at 7:59 pm

      It’s a lovely film, Omar, about reaching an absolute dead end and trying to believe that all is well. It’s a film that’s, on many levels, stuck in time, with no way forward or backward, except for a rupture. This image is the last one in the movie – very emblematic as well as affecting for the couple notes the dead end (of the screen, of the movie, of their life) for the first time – but I guess it is equally true that it could have been from anywhere in the movie.

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    2. Satish Naidu Says:

      February 1, 2011 at 9:24 pm

      Tuesday, After Christmas is probably the most remarkable movie to come out of the Romanian new wave, in the way it takes a stance against that of the other films of this wave.

      This last shot is the first time we actually realize the habit that this couple have become for each other. No sooner does she stick her hand out, the husband plucks the gift right out.

      Yeah, and just to state the rhetoric, it is a great film!

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  6. Stephen Says:

    February 1, 2011 at 8:49 pm

    Lovely, JAFB. I echo what The Zoe says above.

    I was wondering if you could help me identify the name of a Satyajit Ray film whose poster is this:

    I’m hoping you would be able to translate the language if not recognise the image itself. I’d be very grateful if you could help – it’s just illustration for an upcoming post.

    Thanks.

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    1. Just Another Film Buff Says:

      February 1, 2011 at 9:00 pm

      Stephen,

      The language there is Bengali, and I’m as removed from Bengali as an American would be from Russian, I think.

      But considering Ghare-Baire (Home and the World) is the only hyphenated movie in Ray’s filmography, it has to be that. The image sort of echoes that as well.

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      1. Stephen Says:

        February 1, 2011 at 9:23 pm

        Ah. Thanks very much. I didn’t look closely enough for that clue.

        I knew there were many languages and dialects in that region but I hoped…(!)

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  7. Opera “Nixon in China,” 9 Frantisek Vlacil Films, 8 Fritz Lang Films and Broadway Revival “Driving Miss Daisy” on Monday Morning Diary (February 7) « Wonders in the Dark Says:

    February 7, 2011 at 10:34 am

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  9. arun karthick Says:

    March 29, 2011 at 2:57 pm

    @ MY JOY (Sergei Loznitsa)
    one of the best films ive seen in recent times :) thanks for the info….
    btw did u find the subs for SILENT SOULS ? i need ’em badly :)

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    1. Just Another Film Buff Says:

      March 29, 2011 at 3:04 pm

      Glad you liked the film, Arun. No, I haven’t got those subs for SILENT SOULS. I stopped searching even.

      Cheers!

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