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...tension both more palpable and more relatable.While this may not be the ideal Valentine’s Day film to see with a significant other, “He’s Just Not That Into You” gives the boys a voice too. Not all the film??s men are vindicated or excused, nor are all its women victimized; thus, the film achieves a more balanced view of the sexes than its textual counterpart. For a film based on such a simple concept—following several relationships with the most clichéd and common...
...rare treat when audience members can exit an avant-garde film screening without thinking, “What the hell was that?” At best, one might appreciate the film??s aesthetics, while never fully grasping the artist’s intentions. However, this past weekend at the Harvard Film Archive, avant-garde cinema pioneer Ken Jacobs screened film after film, answering questions to help clarify his artistic objectives. The evening was an unexpected trip into the visionary brilliance, or insanity, of Jacobs.Jacobs, who has paved the way for avant-garde cinema since the early 1950s...
...eighteen. He made up for lost time by watching an average of three movies a day while studying at UCLA and earning his MA in Film Studies. While viewing Robert Bresson’s “Pickpocket,” though, Schrader became inspired by the film??s careful investigation of society, and his work veered from film criticism into screenwriting.“I got into writing for the best of all reasons: self-therapy,” Schrader says. “It was an artistic self-exorcism.” Now when teaching screenwriting...
...stories, issues and characters it might reveal,” explained VES Professor Robb Moss, acting head of undergraduate studies and film production professor. While much of the program centers on the hands-on aspects of cinema—such as the complexities of working with 16mm film??its curriculum forces students to draw upon cinematic history and theory, said Moss.“The [film] program socializes film and...integrates it into the rest of my learning,” said Isidore M. T. Bethel ’11, a VES concentrator who recently completed his first...
...that’s in tune with the psyche.” Dorsky says, referring to silent films. Unlike his influences Dziga Vertov and Bruce Conner, whose work veered into social and political commentary, Dorsky seems more concerned with the level to which the individual viewer participates in the film??s meaning. Dorsky says, “Hopefully, if it’s successful, subject matter, screen, and the audience aren’t separated by concept.”Dorsky has penned one acclaimed work on film theory—“Devotional Cinema?...