He's the best amalgamation of better directors and their concepts and tropes I've ever seen. Yay "Modernist" auteurs and their lazy modus operandi that "everything's been done before, so why try anything new?" Sorry, spinning another's yarn and tongue-and-cheekly passing it off as "homage" is bull$%^! in my opinion. Is it "entertaining", sure, I'll give him kudos on that ... but do I find him "refreshing?" About as refreshing as a Carl's Jr. hamburger that's been sitting in my hot car for a week. What can I say, the old tropes get old, and I've yet to see anyone in the mainstream or even independent cinema that's tantalized me in recent years. That's why I stick to the underground. They've got nothing to lose and everything to gain by pushing this beautiful medium we call "cinema" to it's limits.
TL ; DR version.
No. No he's not.
No. No he's not.
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Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective, an eye unprejudiced by compositional logic, an eye which does not respond to the name of everything but which must know each object encountered in life through an adventure of perception. How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of 'Green'?
-Stan Brakhage
Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective, an eye unprejudiced by compositional logic, an eye which does not respond to the name of everything but which must know each object encountered in life through an adventure of perception. How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of 'Green'?
-Stan Brakhage