Bresson vs. Dreyer vs. Ozu

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Upon picking up the updated Transcendental Style in Film, a poll of his three paragons of transcendental cinematic style, and inspired by the ILM classical music poll that Ravel did not win.

Poll Results

OptionVotes
Yasujiro Ozu 20
Robert Bresson 10
Carl Dreyer 4


I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Tuesday, 31 July 2018 20:35 (seven years ago)

Imagine if Bunuel had snapped a photo with them.

morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 31 July 2018 20:40 (seven years ago)

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/yUE75IvnJ1s/maxresdefault.jpg

I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Tuesday, 31 July 2018 21:11 (seven years ago)

Everything's so brutal (incl abs) why must life be like this..

xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 31 July 2018 21:26 (seven years ago)

one month passes...

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Thursday, 6 September 2018 00:01 (seven years ago)

Watched AN AUTUMN AFTERNOON last night, so lovely, so light, so fucking bleak

an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Thursday, 6 September 2018 01:18 (seven years ago)

Oh hey, excellent place to ask: if I were to blind buy a Criterion, would you recommend the one about Joan of Arc or the thing about the donkey (I think it's called The Thing About the Donkey but in French)?

Digital Squirts (Old Lunch), Thursday, 6 September 2018 02:16 (seven years ago)

donkey

macropuente (map), Thursday, 6 September 2018 02:18 (seven years ago)

The donkey is crushed that his daughter turns out to be Joan of Arc.

The Silky Veils of Alfred (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 6 September 2018 02:19 (seven years ago)

Au Hazard Balthazar (my preference) versus The Passion of Joan of Arc?

Accattony! Accattoni! Accattoné! (j.lu), Thursday, 6 September 2018 02:22 (seven years ago)

Yes, those are the ones. I guess donkey wins.

Finally watched my copy of Vampyr earlier this week (very good and gorgeous, not quite as impenetrable as I'd been led to believe). Perhaps I'll let that one percolate a bit before tackling Joan.

Digital Squirts (Old Lunch), Thursday, 6 September 2018 03:07 (seven years ago)

Ozu because he has enough heart to make up for the other two.

flappy bird, Thursday, 6 September 2018 05:16 (seven years ago)

All top level, but Bresson for me. Uniquely bizarre and inscrutable while achieving similar results. Spent more time thinking about how and why his stuff works than the others and that counts for something I guess.

circa1916, Thursday, 6 September 2018 05:34 (seven years ago)

Whoa, oops, to be clear, ~I~ have spent more time thinking about...

circa1916, Thursday, 6 September 2018 05:59 (seven years ago)

Ozu will walk this

niels, Thursday, 6 September 2018 06:51 (seven years ago)

Third muscle man from the left looks a bit like the lead from The Devil Probably.

Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Thursday, 6 September 2018 06:55 (seven years ago)

Voted Dreyer because I hold Gertrud above all in this context, tho the other two probably had more masterpieces overall.

I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Thursday, 6 September 2018 12:52 (seven years ago)

voted Bresson for much the same reasons as Circa but also have seen more of his than the others so maybe not fair. Enjoyed the book, especially the new intro on the broader trends of slow cinema which, not being a thesis, reads better.

devvvine, Thursday, 6 September 2018 13:16 (seven years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Friday, 7 September 2018 00:01 (seven years ago)

I voted Ozu but ORDET and THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC do things to me that no other films do.

an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Friday, 7 September 2018 00:14 (seven years ago)

What version of Joan of Arc have you seen? The newish Criterion has like 4 versions, different frame rates and optional scores. I think I watched the longer one and it was with a solo piano score. Yeah, amazing movie and so ahead of its time. Vampyr left me cold (npi...)

flappy bird, Friday, 7 September 2018 01:09 (seven years ago)

Mine is the Eureka Masters of Cinema blu-ray which I think mirrors the Criterion - anyway I watched it at 20fps with the piano and silent. The image quality is astonishing but the film itself is transcendent I think.
https://www.eurekavideo.co.uk/moc/passion-joan-arc
although mine is the 2012 version here - same disc I think:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/PASSION-JEANNE-Masters-Cinema-Blu-ray/dp/B008LUICH4

an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Friday, 7 September 2018 01:28 (seven years ago)

three months pass...

New restorations of Dreyer’s ORDET (1955), Márta Mészáros’s ADOPTION (1975), and Dominik Graf’s THE INVINCIBLES (1994) will screen in the @Berlinale Classics program in February: https://t.co/vMCCjTzfql #Berlinale2019 pic.twitter.com/avXGddMsDR

— The Daily (@CriterionDaily) December 12, 2018

flappy bird, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 19:35 (seven years ago)

I don't really get what it means that it's a new 4K restoration based on an earlier 2K restoration. How does that work?

Frederik B, Wednesday, 12 December 2018 21:53 (seven years ago)

Twice as much restoration

Screamin' Jay Gould (The Yellow Kid), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 22:05 (seven years ago)


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