Bluedeed's Photosets

[bluedeed]

I mentioned in Minio's Movie Stills thread that I might do photosets with brief bits of criticism along with them, similar to a young critic whom I admire. So I made a quick one to test my hand at it and will keep going with it as long as I enjoy it. The link to it is at the bottom of this post and it's from Ernst Lubitsch's 1933 sex comedy Design for Living.

The photoset is on a wordpress blog that I just started tonight and want to add whatever I manage to write about movies as well as these photosets on there. Feel free to leave comments there or here in this thread. Thanks!

Design for Living (https://morethancinema.wordpress.com/2015/02/17/20/)

[Mr Minio]

Pretty cool. Made me want to watch this film, but I haven't seen anything from Lubitsch, so I'l probably start from To Be or Not to Be.

[bluedeed]

Pretty cool. Made me want to watch this film, but I haven't seen anything from Lubitsch, so I'l probably start from To Be or Not to Be.

Lubitsch is great! I know you're not a big fan of comedies, but Lubitsch is very sneaky and dirty in his humor, so you might appreciate it. I ranked my 10 favorite of those I've seen here (https://mubi.com/lists/ernst-lubitsch--5).

[BlueLion]

Outgrown Godard? Always believed he was one of your very favorites

[bluedeed]

Haven't outgrown Godard (as if that's possible). I still love Godard very much, and consider him one of my favorites. At the moment, however, I prefer Eric Rohmer for his human focused intellectualism and Jacques Rivette for his mind-numbing (in the best possible way) meditations on the modern world that illuminate and complete thoughts I've had since I was very young. So I decided to only put one of the three French New Wavers that I love and picked Rohmer based on a coin toss. I think I'll always be a Godard fan and his films are sure to appear at some point on the site as well.

[rauldc14]

I believe I've only seen 2 Lubitsch. Look forward to more!

[Cobpyth]

How long do you consider yourself to be a cinephile (i.e. someone who takes his personal exploration of cinema kind of serious) already, bluedeed?

[bluedeed]

I believe I've only seen 2 Lubitsch. Look forward to more!

You should be, considering your love for Wilder!

There's a famous quote from William Wyler and Billy Wilder about the death of Ernst Lubitsch. As they were leaving Lubitsch's funeral, Wilder sighed, "No More Lubitsch" To which Wyler responded, "Worse than that, no more Lubitsch pictures!"

[bluedeed]

How long do you consider yourself to be a cinephile (i.e. someone who takes his personal exploration of cinema kind of serious) already, bluedeed?

Between 4 and 5 years I think. So relatively short compared with how long I plan to be one!

[Mr Minio]

4 years for me as well. I started relatively late at the age of 16.

[Citizen Rules]

I mentioned in Minio's Movie Stills thread that I might do photosets with brief bits of criticism along with them, similar to a young critic whom I admire. So I made a quick one to test my hand at it and will keep going with it as long as I enjoy it. The link to it is at the bottom of this post and it's from Ernst Lubitsch's 1933 sex comedy Design for Living.

The photoset is on a wordpress blog that I just started tonight and want to add whatever I manage to write about movies as well as these photosets on there. Feel free to leave comments there or here in this thread. Thanks!

Design for Living (https://morethancinema.wordpress.com/2015/02/17/20/) I took a peak at your blog, very nicely done! Ernest Lubitsch is one of my top 5 favorite directors. I've seen 10 of his films and enjoyed how he shows humanism even in his comedies.

[bluedeed]

Today's set is from Jafar Panahi's Closed Curtain, which I've been openly praising here. The moment captured is pivotal in shifting the film from somewhat of a Hitchcockian thriller, into an outwardly spinning, politically entropic art film.

Here it is (https://morethancinema.wordpress.com/2015/02/18/27/)

[bluedeed]

Today is Howard Hawks' supreme adventure film, Only Angels Have Wings (https://morethancinema.wordpress.com/2015/02/19/49/). I'm not sure if I'll be able to get one off tomorrow because I'm traveling but either tomorrow or the next day I'll probably put up one on Paris Belongs to Us by Jacques Rivette

[bluedeed]

I just saw Paris Belongs to Us by Jacques Rivette and I think I'm inspired to make a video essay about it, or a joint one with that and Out 1. Should take a while to complete but I'm excited to do it and I'll probably post photo sets from it to preparer eat out ideas for it. I've a good idea for what I want, something like Tag Gallagher's essays. His video essays on Stagecoach and Flowers of St Francis (two great films) are available for free online, I highly recommend checking them out.

[bluedeed]

I'm back from traveling for a bit so I'll be doing one set every day for at least this week and hopefully more frequently later too (though I will be away again for several days so we'll see). Today's set is of John Ford's subtle, unimposing, and great western Wagon Master:
https://morethancinema.wordpress.com/2015/03/01/68/

[Cobpyth]

Which are your favorite Ford films, Bluedeed?

[bluedeed]

Which are your favorite Ford films, Bluedeed?

My three favorites are:
The Sun Shines Bright
Steamboat Round the Bend
My Darling Clementine

but I've a lot more Ford to see

[bluedeed]

Today my set includes two films, Jacques Rivette's superb first feature Paris Belongs to Us, and Fritz Lang's espionage epic, Spies! Here's the link: https://morethancinema.wordpress.com/2015/03/02/78/

[bluedeed]

Today I made a set about one of Howard Hawks' finest films, Ceiling Zero: https://morethancinema.wordpress.com/2015/03/04/96/

[bluedeed]

As I just mentioned in the 60s Countdown Thread, I just posted a photoset of John Ford's Sergeant Rutledge, a great 60s film that shouldn't be forgotten come countdown. It's Here (https://morethancinema.wordpress.com/)

[bluedeed]

Violence in Hawks, specifically The Big Sky (https://morethancinema.wordpress.com/2015/03/06/118/)

[bluedeed]

Pedro Costa's intimate epic, In Vanda's Room (https://morethancinema.wordpress.com/2015/03/08/131/)

[Mr Minio]

I'm planning to watch his films chronologically. Watched his debut so far.

[bluedeed]

I'm planning to watch his films chronologically. Watched his debut so far.

I wasn't a big fan of O Sangue, it felt like a weak attempt at Bresson. I've been watching him chronologically, and I think he's gotten better with each film. Of his fiction features, I only need to see Colossal Youth and Horse Money. Unfortunately the latter doesn't seem to be available in any form yet :(

[bluedeed]

John Ford's best film of 1939, Young Mr. Lincoln (https://morethancinema.wordpress.com/2015/03/09/138/)

[bluedeed]

Pedro Costa's Colossal Youth (https://morethancinema.wordpress.com/2015/03/21/154/)

[bluedeed]

Eric Rohmer's first film, Berenice (https://morethancinema.wordpress.com/2015/03/31/161/)

[bluedeed]

A masterpiece by Chantal Akerman and a masterpiece by Hong Sang-soo, Jeanne Dielman and Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors (https://morethancinema.wordpress.com/2015/04/05/168/)

[bluedeed]

Godard's economic masterpiece, Nouvelle Vague (https://morethancinema.wordpress.com/2015/04/06/178/)

I wish I could properly convey the beauty of Godard's images but so much of them is in the movement of the images. While recent films I've seen like Colossal Youth and Jauja have stunning still imagery, even Godard's still images are moving.

[Cobpyth]

Which ar your favorite Howard Hawks films, Bluedeed?

[Camo]

He ranks them here on the link in his SIG -

https://mubi.com/lists/the-hawk--2

[Cobpyth]

Aha! I remember seeing that list already. Thanks for reminding me, Camo! ;)

[bluedeed]

Yeah, that's my ranking, I might consider moving The Big Sky up a bit but the rest is accurate to my feelings. I've seen over half of his films now, but I've still got some fairly major gaps to fill.

New set of some incredible images from Pedro Costa's Colossal Youth (https://morethancinema.wordpress.com/2015/04/07/186/), Father and Sons

[bluedeed]

More images from Godard's Nouvelle Vague (https://morethancinema.wordpress.com/2015/04/09/193/)

[bluedeed]

Acting in Eric Rohmer's Pauline at the Beach (https://morethancinema.wordpress.com/2015/04/10/202/)

[bluedeed]

Leo McCarey's remake of his own Love Affair, An Affair to Remember (https://morethancinema.wordpress.com/2015/04/17/207/)

[bluedeed]

Woody Strode's existential and simultaneously physically real struggle in Sergeant Rutledge (https://morethancinema.wordpress.com/2015/04/23/222/)

[bluedeed]

John Ford's Stagecoach and The Quiet Man here (https://morethancinema.wordpress.com/2015/08/23/243/)

Ford begins with broad sweeping actions and then immediately thrusts forward to the intimate.

[bluedeed]

The all-encompassing, poetic pessimism of Jacques Tourneur's Canyon Passage (https://morethancinema.wordpress.com/2015/08/23/262/)

[Daniel M]

Love the Ford set(s).

That Stagecoach moment as I mentioned was a defining moment in watching Ford for me. I don't know what it is but over the last year I've become more emotional and maybe sentimental in watching films but I think it helps watching older films that would have perhaps have felt colder for whatever reason(s) before - for example, the ending of Casablanca I liked the first time but enjoyed and found really powerful the second time, in the same way Singin' in the Rain has gone from good to masterpiece in my opinion. But this moment in Stagecoach gave me goosebumps, it really threw me into the movie and told me I was being introduced to an iconic character, film and most importantly director. The moment from The Quiet Man was also great.

It's a shame I haven't seen a lot of these films otherwise I'd comment more, really interesting work :)

[bluedeed]

Love the Ford set(s).

That Stagecoach moment as I mentioned was a defining moment in watching Ford for me. I don't know what it is but over the last year I've become more emotional and maybe sentimental in watching films but I think it helps watching older films that would have perhaps have felt colder for whatever reason(s) before - for example, the ending of Casablanca I liked the first time but enjoyed and found really powerful the second time, in the same way Singin' in the Rain has gone from good to masterpiece in my opinion. But this moment in Stagecoach gave me goosebumps, it really threw me into the movie and told me I was being introduced to an iconic character, film and most importantly director. The moment from The Quiet Man was also great.

It's a shame I haven't seen a lot of these films otherwise I'd comment more, really interesting work :)

I've been getting into Tourneur and Sternberg's work more recently, so I expect to make more photosets for them, but Ford will consistently be in the mix

[bluedeed]

Josef Von Sternberg's Blonde Venus (https://morethancinema.wordpress.com/2015/08/26/274/)

[bluedeed]

Echoes of Tourneur in Pedro Costa's Horse Money (https://morethancinema.wordpress.com/2015/09/03/283/)

[bluedeed]

Mythmaking in Stagecoach and Miami Vice here (https://morethancinema.wordpress.com/2016/01/04/297/)