Re: Avant Garde Films on DVD Collections and the Future of Film

From: Freya (email suppressed)
Date: Sat Aug 20 2005 - 13:37:57 PDT


> thank you Freya. I was perched on the edge of some
> kind of existentialist gloom until I read that, and
> now I'm falling about laughing...
>
> Freya <email suppressed> wrote:
> On one occasion we watched the film "The Silence" by
> Ingmar Bergman which was a very tense and disturbing
> film. It was an off air recording but the quality
> was
> sort of okay considering. about 5 minutes before the
> end, as the tension is reaching its climax, the film
> sudenly became steptoe and son.

Yes I was almost laughing myself except I was really
enjoying the film and on the edge of my seat and then
it just stops and I find out I have to wait till next
week to see the last 5 minutes.

The tutor went on to then say words to the effect of:
"Well you only missed a few minutes off the end and
it's all the same s*** after what you saw anyway"
which kind of took the edge off my experience to boot,
although I'm sure he just meant to calm my
dissapointment.

For those (if anyone) who havn't seen the film "The
Silence", I can tell you that it is a fairly harrowing
film and the experience was somewhat like if you were
watching dancer in the dark or Requium for a dream and
then suddenly the screen changes to zippy and george
and bungle dancing around the screen to the rainbow
theme.

love

Freya

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