We Are the Stories We Tell

Narrative Arts — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 00:45:28 +0000

Maybe take more than a moment.

Christina

Narrative Arts — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 18:29:00 +0000

She’d be my Daisy Buchanan in 2012.

"It was a kind of voice that the ear follows up and down as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again." - Gatsby

Free Jafar Panahi

Narrative Arts — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 18:52:12 +0000

From David Bordwell:

“From Tehran comes the shocking news that Jafar Panahi, one of the finest of Iranian filmmakers, has been sentenced to six years in prison. The sentence also bans him from filmmaking for twenty years, forbids him to leave the country, and forbids him from giving interviews to the press, foreign or domestic. Panahi’s collaborator Muhammad Rasoulof was also sentenced to six years in jail.”

Read Bordwell’s entire piece here.

Visit ‘Free Jafar Panahi’ on Facebook, here.

Please let your voice be heard, so that Iran and the rest of the world aren’t deprived of Panahi’s.

Posted by Såladin.

Anti Hero, Ironic Catharsis

Narrative Arts — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 08:14:13 +0000

I’m digesting the film tonight and later on during a stroll with morpheus. More on the film’s delicious casse toi to our glass bourgoiserie tomorrow, along with a discussion of that most overrated of all narrative and aesthetic tropes – catharsis, and what it really means in the inverse.

More Branding

Narrative Arts — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 05:23:59 +0000

Fifteen Seconds #7

Narrative Arts — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:20:50 +0000

Fifteen Seconds #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6

Kevin McCarthy 1914-2010

Narrative Arts — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 07:00:04 +0000

"Help! They're coming - listen to me!"

An actor for the modern age, an engineer of the modern craft – of Kevin McCarthy and many like him we have to ask how many narratives and how many countless narrative jobs – from foley artists to animators – have been born of his relentless and durable performances. A thousand thanks, Maestro!

Posted by Jim Swift.

Toward a New Montage

Narrative Arts — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 02:53:47 +0000

The surrealists André Breton and Paul Éluard used to enter movie theaters at random and stay only a little while, until the plot became clear to them and the films’ images were drained of their power. In the Cineplex you can do the same thing all in one building. I did that one day this summer. What I saw was not excerpts from ten different movies, but one movie made up of ten interchangeable parts—the imperial power of Hollywood, still alive and well, surviving postmodern fragmentation and resisting détournement.

Nicholas Rombes. A discovery. Impressionist with a chisel. Find the whole delirious journey here. Posted by Såladin and Owen. Thanks to Paul Sas via Tyler Cowen.

It Can Be This Simple

Narrative Arts — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 02:30:53 +0000

Thanks to Jean-Sebastien Monzani. Posted by Såladin & Jim Swift.

Larson’s Rhapsody

Narrative Arts — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:13:52 +0000

It’s a rhapsody, don’t let it be a requiem! Get thee to Eisenberg’s! 23rd and 5th Avenue.

Posted by Såladin. Thanks to Jeff Larson.