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...certain when the idea of "pure cinema" first trickled its way I into my moviegoing life. Who knows what the term even means, as if certain images are fitter, more satisfying and more urgently needed on film than on any other medium, or as if celluloid can relate beauty better than anyone else. I'll be the first to admit that there is something a little preposterous about it; can anyone really imagine a "pure sculpture" or a "pure poem...
...doubt I'd believe in the value of pure cinema at all, except that, three or four years ago, I saw a little French film from the 1960s called The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. The idea for the film sounds a little strange when I tell it: a love story that's also a French musical and a slice-of-life melodrama in old Hollywood style. I was a little hesitant to make my first "movie love" rave a French film--it just seems so pretentious. But, well, so it's French. So kill me. Of course there is something...
...cinema aficionados, recently converted Egoyan followers, and those new to his work will have a rare opportunity not only to view a sampling of Egoyan's films this weekend at the Harvard Film Archive, but to also hear him discuss the evolution of his work. Next of Kin and Family Viewing, two of Egoyan's earlier films, will be shown, as well as a series of less well known short films...
...might believe that educators of a radical bent designed these films as reverse social engineering. They knew that kids would take dating dos as don'ts, and vice versa. Some children may never even have considered slouching until Posture Pals told them not to. Did the mental-hygiene cinema of the '50s create the hippies and druggies...
Before there were webcams, there was Frederick Wiseman. Like the Internet cameras that film cubicles and street intersections nonstop, Wiseman creates unblinking images--exhaustive, exhausting, narration-free cinema-verite documentaries. The 4-hr. 8-min. Belfast lingers over daily life in a small blue-collar town: marriages, doctors' exams, factories, a read-through of Death of a Salesman. While Wiseman's vignettes can be mesmeric, they're too often simply tedious and excessive. And it smacks of self-congratulation for the public-TV gentry to do these working-class commoners the mere favor of acknowledging--as the Salesman reference suggests...