The filmmaking ethos — pioneered by Russian auteur Andrei Tarkovsky and taken up by the likes of Theo Angelopoulos, Albert Serra, Béla Tarr, Kelly Reichardt and Lav Diaz— eschews the rapid editing and relentless nonstop forward-driving plots of the Hollywood blockbuster (looking at you, ...
Smith, Alexandra. "Andrei Tarkovsky as Reader of Arsenii Tarkovsky's Poetry in the Film Mirror." Russian Studies in Literature 40, nr 3 (2004): 46-63.Smith, Alexandra. "Andrei Tarkovsky as Reader of Arsenii Tarkovsky's Poetry in the Film Mirror," Russian Studies in Literature, vol. ...
Van Gogh started the first version during mid October 1888 while staying in Arles, and explained his aims and means to his brother Theo: This time it simply reproduces my bedroom; but colour must be abundant in this part, its simplification adding a rank of grandee to the style applied to...
Here, the mirror of the cabaret (also a reference to the work of Toulouse-Lautrec) distorts the reflections of the manager, dancers, and patrons into figures resembling those in the work of Dix, Grosz, and Oskar Kokoschka." Nancy A. Nield, U. of Chicago "The opening scene in the ...
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The French Bishops’ Conference slammed the tableau as a “mockery and derision of Christianity.” Mike Johnson, the right-wing Evangelical Speaker of the House in the United States Congress, decreed the performance “shocking and insulting to Christian people around the world.” The event’s arti...
a Picasso nightmare from which I would eventually awaken. I avoided the mirror in the hallway. I wanted to speak but my mouth wouldn’t move. I grabbed the phone but it fell from my hand, and then I too fell to the floor. I lay there for I don’t know how long before I heard ...
Sometimes it will be a reflection of something in the mirror, and other times it will be the way someone tosses their hat. STEVEN SPIELBERG TRADEMARK ESSAY Guide emotion with views of the face There is a Steven Spielberg trademark that has been previously dubbed as the ‘Spielberg face.’ ...
But the worst isn’t the last thing about the world. It’s the next to last thing. The last thing is the best. It’s the power from on high that comes into the world, that wells up from the rock-bottom worst of the world like a hidden spring. Can you believe it? The last, ...
Here, the mirror of the cabaret (also a reference to the work of Toulouse-Lautrec) distorts the reflections of the manager, dancers, and patrons into figures resembling those in the work of Dix, Grosz, and Oskar Kokoschka." Nancy A. Nield, U. of Chicago "The opening scene in the ...