Links - November 2011

These are some links to interesting or thoughtful pieces that I enjoyed this month:

Ways of Seeing: on the profundity of a simple gesture in 3 Godfathers (John Ford, 1948)

Film: Ab Initio: on the artistic evolution of D.W. Griffith as seen in his 1911 film Hearts and Swords, before his move to feature films yet after his early "morality play" shorts

The Criterion Contraption: on the modernist masterpiece L'Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960)


Checking on My Sausages: an overview of some artistic objections to Pixar's films (the only ones I have ever read, actually)


Sounds, Images: a visual overview of a strange-looking film I've never seen, Reckless Kelly (Yahoo Serious, 1993)

Cinema Haikus #001-#004

Burden of Dreams (Les Blank, 1982)

Pull a ship though the

Jungle and you can swallow

Indigenous spit

[cinema haiku #001]

Exiting the Factory (Louis Lumière, 1895)

As subjects pass by

Are documentary film's

Questions still looming?

[cinema haiku #002]

Young Mr. Lincoln (John Ford, 1939)
Fonda is tall and
Can carry a speech like Abe's
American myth

[cinema haiku #003]

Nashville (Robert Altman, 1975)
Celebrity crazed
Country of musicians sell
Ideals for records

[cinema haiku #004]