Image of the day, 9/23/11

7 Comments

• Oliver_C says:

  September 23, 2011 at 10:36 am

  Paul Schrader’s 1995 ‘Sight and Sound’ art­icle on Renoir and ‘Règle’ remains an excel­lent, expert ana­lys­is of mise-en-scène, even if his dis­missive com­ments regard­ing Robert Altman, multi-camera set-ups and the zoom lens could give Natasha Vargas-Cooper a run for her money in the infuri­at­ing clue­less­ness stakes:
  http://www.paulschrader.org/writings.html (scroll down to 1995)

• Glenn Kenny says:

  September 23, 2011 at 10:44 am

  Mr. Schrader nev­er quite mastered his some­time part­ner Mr. Scorsese’s mode of cine­mat­ic dip­lomacy. I don’t think he ever even neces­sar­ily aspired to. I kind of love him for that, frankly.

• That Fuzzy Bastard says:

  September 23, 2011 at 11:49 am

  My favor­ite Schraeder story: A cer­tain friend of mine who I know reads this site was work­ing at a video store fre­quen­ted by film journ­al­ists. One such writer came in and checked out HARDCORE, MISHIMA, and PATTY HEARST. The two clerks asked, “Doing a Paul Schraeder piece?” “Yeah,” she answered, “I’ll be talk­ing to him in a couple of days.” The clerks, who had just been going through the inter­views on the TAXI DRIVER laser­disc, smiled and said, “That’s great—he’s a ter­rif­ic inter­view sub­ject. Knows a lot, and nev­er pussy­foots. Just… Try not to think about how much he sounds like Elmer Fudd.”
  The next week, she was in to return her tapes, and scream “I HATE YOU GUYS!” at said clerks.

• Russ H says:

  September 23, 2011 at 12:53 pm

  With a soggy and dark day like today in NYC, damned if I don’t want to just avoid work, pop in RULES OF THE GAME and for­get that it was made for any­one but me.
  I love that still, GK.

• John Keefer says:

  September 23, 2011 at 1:39 pm

  Viva Cinema!

• Greg Ferrara says:

  September 23, 2011 at 2:17 pm

  Is that the T‑800 or T‑1000 model?

• Bryce says:

  September 23, 2011 at 2:28 pm

  Anyone else think that “eat it” is going to become the cine­aste equi­val­ent of “Fucking Magnets/ How do they work!”