Jul 23, 2017

I did another one.

 

Jul 24, 2017

Wrote on Nolan's Dunkirk.

How Music Ruined a Potential Masterpiece: Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk and its Greatest Failing

There’s much in Nolan’s audacious new feature worth commending, chief among which is the underlying conceptual apparatus of time and rhythm and the greatly immersive experience it generates. Cross cutting between three divergent storlines yet maintaining a parallel flow of time between them is something I’ve frankly never seen before. In spite that each plot recount a distinct timeline, and each cut serve as an extension or contraction of time, the bombastic flow of Nolan’s pure visual storytelling remains uninterrupted...

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Jul 25, 2017

Lynch got me inspired fellas.

 

Jul 25, 2017

for those of u not wacking off to split diopter shots, thot u mite like my girls trip review :D
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/597664e8e4b0c6616f7ce46d

shout out @Swizz... @Twan ... @Marc_Tesla

 

Jul 28, 2017

Experimental Cinema: Snow & Saito

Saw these two on film yesterday.
Original Link: http://bit.ly/2v54c8T




La Région Centrale (Michael Snow, 1971, 16mm)


A meditation of time itself.

Challenges the viewer’s capacity for prayer as it entangles the spiritual and physical in worlds both of the reveler and the revealed through a form of fixed yet flowing movement.

Slighted only in that concept is greater than creation and the finite world of mathematics inspired concepts is limited by its own presupposed parameters.

A novel experiment.

85/100 – Excellent.





Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis (Daïchi Saïto, 2009, 35mm)





A cataclysm of unmediated energy.

Reverberating pulses of light & sound conjure a psycho-physical response and shift in metabolic activity.

Film grain and the dark cavern of cinema support this effect.

90/100 – Amazing.

 

Aug 1, 2017

RIP Sam Shepard

 

Aug 2, 2017

Person to Person is really great and you should watch it.

 

Aug 3, 2017

Experimental Cinema 2, Chambers' Hart of London
Review: http://bit.ly/2v41yOH


Experimental Cinema, Jack Chambers’ Hart of London
Posted on August 3, 2017by Kamran Ahmed


Jack Chamber’s masterpiece of experimental Canadian film carries within it some of the purest moments cinema has to offer.

Chamber’s sprawling form of experimentation straddles the fine line between so called high and low art.

Adopting an anodyne viewpoint, he freely observes and presents both the unsightly and the majestic in a form of realism predicated on the viewer’s subjective perception and emotional interpretation of the events being unfold, often in real-time, on screen.

Foggy footage of a deer hunt incites Rorschach opacity, gesturing the viewer towards their own predilections. Deer’s blood spilling by the neck conveys an image as haunting as it is prideful. A vagina spreading for the head of a child’s birth to pass nods toward both the baffling and the beautiful.

The world’s quotidian activities, from the grim to the simple and plain, are placed on equal footing for viewer, as voyeur, to respond immediately, and therefore truthfully.

The finale’s use of repetition compels one to reflect on the experience and one’s emotional responses to the images. Upon completion, the film incredulously reveals for the viewer the truth of their emotional selves and the truth of the reality one both creates and perceives.

90/100 – Amazing.

(16mm at the Cinematheque)

 

Aug 4, 2017

How was Detroit @Twan ?

 

Aug 4, 2017

I found it solid overall but flawed. In terms of filmmaking sensibility and prowess, it's what you'd expect from Bigelow given her last two features. In its horrifying centerpiece at the hotel, the film effectively conveys a sense of claustrophobia and hopelessness that's difficult to shake. With that said, as incendiary as the events are, one can't help but wonder what this brutal depiction adds to the discussion of America's history of racism, beyond its immediate visceral impact. The film paints a little too neatly in black and white to offer much insight or nuance into what took place and its larger context. It instead hones its focus on vivid recreation of a history that's been oft repeated and remains a troubling part of our present. Along those lines, the end result is one that's appropriately upsetting and occasionally moving, but also uneven and sometimes frustrating.

 

Aug 5, 2017

 

Aug 7, 2017

Masterpiece Alert: Last week, I saw two classics for the first time, Abel Ferrara's Bad Lieutenant and Luis Bunuel's Los Olvidados. They don't really have anything in common, other than that they're both relatively short and exceedingly downbeat.

Bad Lieutenant did have the added bonus of featuring a few scenes from my neighborhood in the Bronx, including my grammar school in the opening scene.

 

Aug 7, 2017

Saw you liked The Addiction

Want to watch more Ferrara, but I always have trouble getting into director's as versatile as he is. Don't know if I should start with the popular, overlooked, or specific genre flicks.

 

Aug 7, 2017

I did reference Rowjay's list for Ferrara on letterboxd, but I ended up going for the more popular ones this week like Bad Lieutenant and Ms. 45. I figured I'd start with the more "accessible" stuff and then move on to seemingly more out-there stuff like New Rose Hotel.

 

Aug 8, 2017

For Aronofsky fans...

 

Aug 9, 2017

https://www.razvahn.com

site is up

 

Aug 16, 2017

Some trailers...

 

Aug 17, 2017

Looks like Baker upgraded his iPhone

 

Aug 17, 2017

big thing coming tomorrow, stay tuned

 

Aug 18, 2017

NEW SINGLE FOR EN SHAMBLE OUT NOW!



https://www.razvahn.com/en-shamble/