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...work, focusing on Klute, the 1971 private eye film starring Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland and Roy Scheider. A screening of Klute—which Willis himself chose to be played—preceded an interview interspersed with clips from his other films and moderated by David Thorburn, a professor of film and literature...
When Willis said that the experience of filming “Godfather I was a shit-bath,” Thorburn countered quickly, “I’ve never had one of those...
Willis often spoke critically of the directors he had worked with, though Thorburn mentioned Willis’ dictum that “why you do something in a movie is more important than how you do it,” a humble remark for a cinematographer, who typically concentrates on how to shoot something and leaves the “why” to the director...
...GORDON WILLIS. Gordon Willis, the cinematographer who turned Manhattan into a masterpiece of monochromaticism, gave The Godfather movies their distinctive yellow-and-mahogany palette and immortalized Harvard Law School in The Paper Chase, will be at the Brattle to discuss his career with MIT literature and film professor Paul Thorburn. Prior to the discussion, the Brattle will screen Willis’ favorite film from his career. What might it be? All the President’s Men? Annie Hall? Nope, it’ll be a new 35mm print of Klute, a forgotten 1971 Jane Fonda-Donald Sutherland crime thriller...
What is significant about these shows is that they are so insignificant. They are virtually without content, devoid of the most elementary dramatic interest. Ultimately, they are examples of what Media Scholar David Thorburn calls "television's genius for marketing banality." All of them represent aspects of a shared television culture, but they serve as reminders that the word culture also refers to something grown in an artificial medium. For instance, a virus...