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Acting Intentions – Gyöngyvér Vigh In Adoption | The Great Acting Blog

30.09.2019 , The Great Acting Blog , 28 Comments

Gyöngyvér Vigh's performance in Adoption, is a powerful example of acting intentions; of having a good, clear, strong intention towards the other actor in the scene. Vigh knows precisely what she wants the other actor to do as a result of her actions. As we...

Drifting Clouds Cinema: ‘The Eyes Of TAXI DRIVER’

04.05.2016 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 6 Comments

https://vimeo.com/165183411 'Celebrating one of cinema's most unique anti-heroes on TAXI DRIVER's 40th anniversary year. A video essay by Jacob T. Swinney. More at fandom.com/keyframe' ...

The Existential Noir of Michelangelo Antonioni

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtAK2Kq5NXM "On how Italian modernist Michelangelo Antonioni fashioned his first film, ‘Story of a Love Affair,’ after 1940s Hollywood noir" By Kevin B. Lee Or perhaps to put it another way, the marriage of neorealism with noir....

Buster Keaton: Symmetry Of Laughter

20.02.2015 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 9 Comments

https://vimeo.com/109637101 "After watching twenty-nine Buster Keaton films, I was struck by his use of symmetry and center framing. This is an attempt to capture that. Before Stanley Kubrick and Wes Anderson made it famous for modern audiences, there was Buster Keaton." - Vince Di Meglio “The greatest...

Rejecting Neorealism: Fellini And Antonioni

05.10.2014 , Drifting Clouds Cinema Blog , 26 Comments

https://vimeo.com/196788868 By Kevin B. Lee "Video essay on the seminal Italian neorealist film LOVE IN THE CITY, which includes films by Michelangelo Antonioni and Federico Fellini"...

Noirish Project Blog: “What Is Neorealism?”

12.04.2014 , Noirish Project , 1 Comment

http://vimeo.com/68514760 We consider Noirish Project to be a work of neorealism. We define that as holding the length of the shot longer than is required, so that the viewer begins to perceive more than just the literal plot. The video essay about quite brilliantly explores the nature...

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