Comments on: 2 Movies, 2 Photographers, 2 Murders, 2 Realities

By: 106 Movies (but who’s counting?) | bavatuesdays

106 Movies (but who’s counting?) | bavatuesdays — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 22:43:56 +0000

[...] Since Alan Levine arrived in Fredericksburg we’ve been watching our fare share of movies. It couldn’t happen at a better time for me because I’ve been missing my movie blogging. Too much ds106 blogging makes Jack a dull boy. For me, there’s nothing better than riffing on film and sharing around the medium that still gets me most excited. So far we’ve watched four films (not to mention a number of HBO series episodes, which represent their own magic—but that’s another conversation) and we got to thinking we’d blog about the films we watch, but also trace the choices we make over time as a way of building on what we’ve already watched. We started with the parodic spaghetti Western [[My Name is Nobody (1973), that I already blogged briefly about here, and then Anto suggested Michelangelo Antonioni‘s Blow-Up (1966), a classic, and the following night we ended up watching Alfred Hitchcock‘s Rear Window (1954). What was remarkable was the deep thematic relationships between Blow-Up and Rear Window that Alan blogged about already here. [...]

By: Rear Window Animated Movie Poster | mbransons

Rear Window Animated Movie Poster | mbransons — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 04:35:22 +0000

[...] Levine’s post about watching cool flick’s with Jim Groom finally got me to get of the snide and finish this animated movie poster for the [...]

By: Michael Branson Smith

Michael Branson Smith — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 02:43:45 +0000

Blow-up was a film I saw for the first time while in Art school in the 90s and this pretty great prof was making comparisons between the photo enlargement process, Polluck’s drip paintings, and atomic war – all of them being about obliteration of the image, the surface. He was an amazing lecturer and wish they’d been recorded.

And I’ve Rear Window animated GIF poster that’s needed finishing for awhile.

Your mashing up of the two films based on the photographer’s obsession with having ‘seen’ something sounds really interesting. I never made that connection between these flicks before. Very cool.