Dream DVD Commentaries
Submitted by lukeprog on Tue, 03/01/2005 - 03:11
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- Directors:
- Edward D. Wood Jr. on Plan 9 from Outer Space
- Federico Fellini on 8½
- Stanley Kubrick on 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Orson Welles on Citizen Kane
- Luis Buñuel on Un chien andalou
- D.W. Griffith on The Birth of a Nation
- Alfred Hitchcock on Psycho
- George Lucas on The Phantom Edit
- Fritz Lang on M
- Ingmar Bergman on Persona
- Carl Dreyer on The Passion of Joan of Arc
- Andrei Tarkovsky on Andrei Rublev
- Federico Fellini on La Dolce Vita
- Louis Feuillade on Judex
- D.W. Griffith on Intolerance
- Critics:
- Andre Bazin on Elephant
- Pauline Kael on Mulholland Drive
- Jonathan Rosenbaum on *Corpus Callosum
- Roger Ebert on Goldfinger
- François Truffaut on Pulp Fiction
- Other:
- Jesus Christ on The Passion of The Christ
- Aileen Wuornos on Monster
- J.R.R. Tolkien on The Lord of the Rings (extended editions)
- Joel Hodgson on Catwoman
- Emmet Ray on Sweet and Lowdown
- Chris Farley on Wayne's World 2
- Alan Moore on The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
- Bob Kane on Batman Begins
- Stanley Kubrick on A.I. Artificial Intelligence
- Akira Kurosawa on Star Wars
Excellent idea for a list.
Inspiration.
How about Laurence Olivier on Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow?
Cool list. I wonder what it would be like to hear the Marx Brothers on 8 1/2, Jesus Christ on Wayne's World 2, and Orson Welles on Plan 9 From Outer Space?
Yes, I'd like to hear a Brian Regan commentary on every film ever made. I have no idea how to articulate why I include some good ideas and not others, but I don't want the list to become overpopulated.
Cool list.
Why Bazin specifically for "Elephant" though? Bazin struck me as a critic very interested in what motivates a characters actions based on their humanity as well as the human outlook of the director. As much as I like it and think the choices made work for the movie, Van Sant's vision is one that has little to no moral relevance here -- that is, the moral consciousness of the characters is barely addressed, and remains completely unexplored. It's a cold and technical film; its roots are in the Kubrick tradition. Moralist critics generally don't like Kubrick at all.
That's true, I hadn't considered that. I was thinking of Bazin's taste for extended mise-en-scene and "the ontology of the photographic image" (I think that means its 'integrity'), both of which Elephant oozes. Gerry might be a better choice (or of course, Russian Ark), but I vastly prefer Elephant. It'd be impressive to watch anyone fill a 15 minute shot of 2 young men walking through a desert with interesting analysis and humor, though.