Re: VAMPYR: masterpiece of horror or pretentious and overrated?
I saw VAMPYR for the first time last year, around Halloween in fact, and I loved it. There was just something about the way that movie was shot. The whole world of the movie looked creepy, both...
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VAMPYR is a masterpiece, a poem for cinema. A forerunner for MESHES IN THE AFTERNOON and Kenneth Anger and "undercurrents" like David Lynch and George Romero.
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Muhammad Ali, unparalleled as a charismatic presence, has given several weak performances as himself in films. As he's often given lines right out of the history books to read, it can't be easy!
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Like I said, it can work - but it rarely does. Look at a location film like PICNIC, with a Pro cast intermingled with local Real People: for the most part in cases like that, whenever the amateur has...
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Wich2 wrote:Like I said, it can work - but it rarely does. Look at a location film like PICNIC, with a Pro cast intermingled with local Real People: for the most part in cases like that, whenever the...
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pulp novelties wrote:Wich2 wrote:Like I said, it can work - but it rarely does. Look at a location film like PICNIC, with a Pro cast intermingled with local Real People: for the most part in cases...
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Well, I'll tell you one that works and doesn't work at the same time, and in a great movie. Â In BONNIE AND CLYDE there was a scene in which Bonnie's mother or grandmother or some old female relative...
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That's interesting, because I always thought the old lady playing Bonnie's mother was quite good - I had no idea she wasn't an actress. Recalling the scene now, her seeming "out of it" must have been...
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I think where de Gunzburg's blankness works particularly well is the scene in which Allan Gray experiences his own interment. Lying in the coffin with his eyes open, we come to see that the character...
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So, in the end, I don't think it really matters whether the character takes on these traits as a result of a non-professional's awkwardness or a seasoned actor's talent, the point is the film succeeds...
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(Thanks, Ryan - and back atcha.) Well, of course it takes all kinds of folks to make a world - and that's good. >conveying these odd, unsettling sensations to me< Casey, I get those feelings...
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Casey62 So, in the end, I don't think it really matters whether the character takes on these traits as a result of a non-professional's awkwardness or a seasoned actor's talent, the point is the film...
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Yes Craig acting, of course, is an art. However in a film, it's but one of several artforms working together or depending on each other. Unlike the stage, so much is ultimately conveyed by the camera...
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I think that one of the reasons VAMPYR remains so unique, is because it's so purely cinematic in it's solutions to portraying the supernatural. It makes things like amateur performances all part of...
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About the old woman in B&C...I have no problem with her in fact I like her presence.Sure, she's different (stiff) but she adds a certain gravity to the film.It makes the film more "down home" for...
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Casey62 wrote:Yes Craig acting, of course, is an art. However in a film, it's but one of several artforms working together or depending on each other. Unlike the stage, so much is ultimately conveyed...
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Ay - that's the gamble, isn't it?
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Cinema is such a relative artform, even within itself. Sometimes the reasons one film is effective will be precisely why another is not. This might seem like I'm oversimplifying, but with a film like...
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Well, if one likes something enough to do it, just about anything can be justified just about any way.
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Wich2 wrote:Ay - that's the gamble, isn't it?Without gambling any art-form runs the risk of being watered down to craftsmanship alone.
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