From: Nicholas Hamlyn (email suppressed)
Date: Mon Nov 07 2005 - 15:06:31 PST
>
> As someone who saw a lot of gruelling but often engrossing performance
> work in the 1970s as a student, much of the performance, which is what
> constitutes the bulk of the content in the Cremasters, is slickly
> spectacular, but basically weak, ie thematically, conceptually, and in
> the way it fails to discomfit the spectator (this was de rigeur in 70s
> (and other) performance art.
> The stuff I saw as a student was done on a shoestring and had real
> inventiveness and emotional power, by comparison to which the filling
> of lifts with cement and the bashing up of dozens of expensive vintage
> Chryslers is cooly crass, nouveau-riche, artless posturing,
>
> Nicky Hamlyn.
>
>
> On 7 Nov 2005, at 19:13, Jason A Murphy wrote:
>
>> As far as I know, Cremasters 2, 3 and 5 were shot on HD. 1 & 4 were
>> not. I've seen 2, 3 and 5 on film, 1 and 4 on video.
>>
>> The DVD is an excerpt from Cremaster 3.
>>
>> Certainly there are some impressive costumes, visuals, set pieces,
>> etc. in the Cremaster Cycle. Of course, going back to
>> Lucas, the same could be said for Star Wars. From a rhythmic and
>> editing viewpoint, however, (be it from the perspective
>> of an 'avant-garde' or a 'narrative' view of film, not that that's a
>> distinction that needs making, but hey...) The Cremaster
>> Cycle is pretty abysmal, and a total aesthetic failure, however
>> impressive the production values are.
>>
>> Take care,
>>
>> Jason
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Freya <email suppressed>
>> Date: Monday, November 7, 2005 1:55 pm
>> Subject: Re: Lucas the Avant-gardist??? - Cremastar Cycle
>>
>>> I don't know, as I say, I only saw the DVD which is
>>> not even one part of the cremaster cycle. I really
>>> thought it was video however for some reason and have
>>> been suprised by the people saying it was film. Maybe
>>> the bit I saw was shot on H.D.
>>>
>>> I've no idea.
>>>
>>> As for production values, that's a very wide concept.
>>> Certainly they had well made costumes and stuff by the
>>> look of it.
>>>
>>> love
>>>
>>> Freya
>>
>>
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