The imagery in Winter Sleep seems incredibly important, I think. It's clearly carefully made. I just think the connection between style and theme is more oblique than it used to be. Which is cool, just means I have to think about it...
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 6 January 2015 14:23 (nine years ago) link
"If the dialogue says more than the image, that is not nec crucial."
i disagree. cause it's cinema.
Dreyer, for example, combined imagery within dialog, to perfection.Winter Sleep, i think, is more or less dialog OR image, usually not together, and that's fine as long as you don't have too much dialog..
― nostormo, Tuesday, 6 January 2015 15:20 (nine years ago) link
You must love Eric Rohmer.
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 6 January 2015 15:30 (nine years ago) link
Didn't have a problem w/ the long dialogue scenes in WS - it's a film about an actor, the conversations are another performance, the firelit rooms a stage (and as Rivette makes clear, there is in fact a deep relationship between cinema and theatre). It seemed quite brave - or bloody-minded - of Ceylan to retreat into the interior after roaming the countryside in his previous film, and I thought the film really pulled off that sense of passions/feelings shutting down, hibernating.
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 6 January 2015 15:36 (nine years ago) link
i do actually. but more Green Ray and less Maude..xpost
― nostormo, Tuesday, 6 January 2015 15:37 (nine years ago) link
well exactly; just because there's a lot of dialogue doesn't mean the visuals are null.
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 6 January 2015 15:50 (nine years ago) link
WPT, despite the lengthy dialouges, is a superb piece of filmmaking. Excellent movie.
― nostormo, Sunday, 2 December 2018 18:35 (five years ago) link
You should get this Blu-ray of THE WILD PEAR TREE not for my essay but because it has A SIX AND A HALF HOUR MAKING OF DOCUMENTARY on it. (Also, the movie's great. ) https://t.co/yG4rIvIWgZ— Bilge Ebiri (@BilgeEbiri) October 17, 2019
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 19 October 2019 13:52 (four years ago) link
So want to watch that making of. Also, the film is extremely good.
― Frederik B, Saturday, 19 October 2019 14:31 (four years ago) link
Yeah feels like it was slept on a bit?
― YouGov to see it (wins), Saturday, 19 October 2019 14:47 (four years ago) link
I very much liked The Wild Pear Tree. It certainly didn't stint on the alienation, and alienating qualities, of its protagonist. Novelistic in the better sense, tho I see complaints about the length of his films are increasing in some quarters.
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 5 April 2020 12:30 (four years ago) link
Need to see that. Maybe even today, if we're considering it eligible for the poll again. If I loved the previous two but slightly preferred Winter Sleep...does this continue along that path, or diverge intriguingly?
― ban laggy jazzer (imago), Sunday, 5 April 2020 12:38 (four years ago) link
someone my age no longer remembers films I saw 3+ years ago well. :/ But it's recognizably occupied with his concerns etc.
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 5 April 2020 12:54 (four years ago) link
opened in the US January 2019
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 5 April 2020 12:56 (four years ago) link
ah nice ok ty! it's on the pile
― ban laggy jazzer (imago), Sunday, 5 April 2020 13:06 (four years ago) link
Funnily enough, it's been in my Netflix queue for months, suddenly becoming available yesterday.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 5 April 2020 13:48 (four years ago) link