Not to flog a dead horse, but bring back Eadweard Muybridge's deleted titles! And stop deleting the Zapruder film while you're at it!
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Cinema Futures 2016
Taking a Side: The Death of Film Continued
I came to “Cinema Futures” because I wanted to view something involving the great film historian and theorist, and recently-deceased, David Bordwell. He’s a familiar name to those with a background in academic film studies, or even those who’ve taken an introductory class or two in movie appreciation, as he and his widow and fellow academic Kristin Thompson wrote the most popular introductory textbook in the field, “Film Art: An Introduction,” as…
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Muybridge's Strings 2011
The String Theory of Motion Pictures
This animated short film, “Muybridge’s Strings,” from Kōji Yamamura, whose “Mt. Head” (2022) was nominated for an Oscar, definitely benefits from the viewer already having some knowledge of the life of and contributions to the invention of motion pictures by Eadweard Muybridge and by the viewer having some tolerance for artsy abstract cartoons. Given my interest in so-called “pre-cinema” history and that I’ve read various books and essays on Muybridge and countless other texts…
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Killers of the Flower Moon 2023
Wetters of the Diabetic Mooning
I know old people like to tell meandering and protracted stories, but you’d think an octogenarian filmmaker—because, y’know, the elderly also tend to do so more frequently—would have more sympathy for audiences’ urinary needs. Not only that, but the entire 3 ½ hours behemoth focuses its suffering upon a victim who’s prominently a diabetic—and, y’know, diabetics pee more frequently, too. But, no, it’s as if this merciless geezer of a venerated cinematic auteur rubs in…
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Cimarron 1931
Sounds Like Cinema on the Run: The Big Picture from One of the Worst Best Pictures
According to Letterboxd, IMDb, and Rotten Tomatoes, “Cimarron” escapes by the skin of its teeth being the worst Best Picture Oscar winner of all time, or rather because “The Broadway Melody” (1929) also won the award. As of this writing, the films are at 52% and 42%, respectively, for critics and 26% and 21% for audiences at RT, at 5.8 and 5.6 stars at…
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Exposing Muybridge 2021
Erasing Muybridge
I’m going to review this documentary, “Exposing Muybridge,” but, first and on a related note that I’ll tie into the review, I’m going to piss and moan a bit more about the deletion of all Eadweard Muybridge titles and with the fear of more early motion pictures being deleted on TMDB, the movie database website that Letterboxd unfortunately relies upon. I’ve had one conversation with a rude moderator at the website, but otherwise TMDB has been unresponsive on…
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Cleopatra 1917
Another Fragment from a Theda Bara Film Found
See newly-rediscovered lost footage here: youtu.be/QwPZuyF2Th0?feature=shared
Also, here’s a link to the previous few seconds of extant footage (donated to the George Eastman House by film historian Anthony Slide), along with some publicity stills and with a snippet from an audio interview with Bara playing over it: youtu.be/7IYQGVgaHlM?feature=shared
What a welcome biennial event if it could be maintained, of a fragment from a lost Theda Bara film being found and released in…
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