From: Nicky Hamlyn (email suppressed)
Date: Mon Jan 12 2009 - 13:27:57 PST
Similarly: Au Hasard Balthazar.
Nicky hamlyn.
On 12 Jan 2009, at 20:44, Roger Beebe wrote:
> In a similar vein, I don't think anyone has mentioned Anthony
> Mann's formalist masterpiece Winchester 73, which follows the
> eponymous rifle as it passes from hand to hand.
>
> Look closely & you'll notice that the enraged Indian chief in the
> film, Young Bull, is played by a shirtless Rock Hudson. Not one of
> our more culturally sensitive moments...
>
> R.
>
> On Jan 12, 2009, at 1:30 PM, Marc Couroux wrote:
>
>> The GUN, a made-for-TV John Badham thing (1974) - gun changes owners
>> through the years, from manufacture to crime(s)...
>> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071590
>>
>> There's also John Brahm's (master of the flashback within a flashback
>> within a flashback) The Locket (1947)
>> http://grunes.wordpress.com/2007/01/31/the-locket-john-brahm-1946/
>>
>> ...which is different in the sense that it is the stealing of a
>> locket
>> in childhood which leads to consequences in three flashback sequences
>> embedded in each other....
>>
>> marc
>>
>> On 12-Jan-09, at 9:05 AM, JEFFREY PAULL wrote:
>>
>>> "La Ronde", Max Ophuls (a necklace gets passed from husband to
>>> mistress, to . . . . til it finally gets back to the wife.)
>>> "Invitation to the Dance", Gene Kelly, part of an all-dance movie
>>> about the same necklace
>>>
>>> JP
>>>
>>> On Mon 12/01/09 08:33 , marco poloni email suppressed sent:
>>>> Hello everyone,
>>>>
>>>> I am doing research and pre-production work on a film project on
>>>> Mafia in
>>>> South Italy, 16mm, no actors. This was the reason of my recent post
>>>> about
>>>> tinting B&W footage as this could be an option for some scenes.
>>>> One of the forms the work could take is that of a “daisy chain” of
>>>> sorts: follow one person in the street then move on following
>>>> another
>>>> person, and so on. The links between people could be sites or
>>>> objects. For
>>>> instance, person A is followed until he enters a bar. We then
>>>> follow
>>>> person
>>>> B as soon as he exits the same bar. Objects could be transitional
>>>> objects
>>>> like the famous post-it-sized pizzini mafiosi use to communicate,
>>>> even if
>>>> we do not see them. Suggestion might be enough. In B&W and with
>>>> shrewd
>>>> editing, I suppose one can generate the suggestion, even if for a
>>>> split-second, that the same person is being followed. I have done
>>>> this in
>>>> photography and now want to experimet with film.
>>>> I was wondering what pedigree this idea has. I know of no film that
>>>> systematically exploits this device, or uses it as an editing
>>>> strategy,
>>>> apart from Linklater's “Slacker” movie, in which one or more
>>>> characters
>>>> are followed until they meet a third one, upon which the action
>>>> shifts to
>>>> this third person until he or she meets a fourth one, and so
>>>> forth...
>>>> Thank you for any feedback!
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>>
>>>> Marco
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>> Marco Poloni, Korsörer Strasse 1, D-10437 Berlin
>>>>
>>>> gsm +41.78.6322028, skype marcopoloni
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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