Some are innuendo-laden masterpieces of censor-skirting visual filmmaking.
And it’s never far from the screen: filmmakers have had sex on their minds since the very first motion picture camera began flickering.Ī great sex scene can be a lot of things: a shocking moment or a punchline in a cringe comedy. It also sows controversy and shifts paradigms.
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Throughout cinema history , it has scorched the screen, leaving in its wake titilation, liberation and an ocean’s worth of clutched pearls from prurient types and Hays Code lawyers. Either way, the laughter is dismissive.When even the Marvel’s Eternals are getting down to it, you know cinematic sex is getting big again. By then it's already gotten a little too much of a charge out of commenting on its own giddy morbidity, and whether the audience is laughing at it or with it doesn't matter. Nevertheless, "Antichrist" is a serviceable, sometimes atmospheric horror movie, until the last chapter-and-a-half when it just goes flat. When they ought to be harrowing, they're obvious and over-explained, which cuts them off from genuine emotion or experience. He's also, in "Antichrist" particularly, a thudding literalist whose mock-academic ideas and images are so over-rationalized and in-your-face that (like the mysterious cry of a baby placed too far forward in the sound mix to be haunting or ambiguous) they don't have much room to resonate. I picture him as a dancing, grinning little prankster on the fringes of world cinema, alternately flaunting a streak of astringent sadism and hiding for safety behind a shield of facetiousness. He pleases his audiences by teasing, taunting and testing them, keeping his tongue in his cheek. Lars von Trier, maker of calculating horror comedies, is a shrewd showman - if not exactly in the classic Hollywood tradition then at least in the Barnum & Bailey one.
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(Anybody with a copy of Cinemania able to confirm that? My Mac copy of Cinemania97 won't run on Snow Leopard.) Many of them looked quite familiar to me, and if I'm not mistaken they were among the biographical portraits we used in the multimedia CD-ROM movie encyclopedia Microsoft Cinemania, which I edited from 1994 to 1998, first on disc, then also on the web. I found the above collage (mosaic?) of mostly-famous faces belonging to film directors, which Srikanth says he assembled from thumbnails at Senses of Cinema. Dig into his exploration of connections between Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds" and Jean-Luc Godard's "History of Cinema." Or check out his piece on James Benning's 1986 "Landscape Suicide." There's a lot to look through, divided into sections for Hollywood and World Cinema. I don't remember how I happened upon it last week, but wow am I glad I did. Srikanth Srinivasan of Bangalore writes one of the most impressive movie blogs on the web: The Seventh Art. I did find some Craig Baldwin movies on Netflix, actually. PST - COMPLETED!: Thanks for all the detective work - and special thanks to Christopher Stangl and Srikanth Srinivasan himself for their comprehensive efforts at filling the last few holes! Now I have to go read about who some of these experimental filmmakers are. It's easily solved however, just visit Far Better Than 3-D: Animated GIFs That Savor A Passing Moment to see an assortment in play! But photographer Jamie Beck and motion graphics artist Kevin Burg may have finally found a way to elevate the animated GIF to a level approaching fine art, with their "cinemagraphs" - elegant, subtly animated creations that are "something more than a photo but less than a video." - fastcodesignAnd sadly, they won't work in here Movable Type doesn't like animated gifs. That said, PopTart Cat is not exactly on par with Thelonious Monk. The Grand Poobah shared the following recently and which struck me as just the thing to put in here - for it amounts to someone inventing a moving still akin to those seen on the front page of Harry Potter's famous newspaper."You know how people sometimes say that jazz is the only truly American art form? Animated GIFs are like the jazz of the internet: they could only exist, and be created and appreciated, online.
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