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The deaths this week of Bergman and Antonioni are worth discussion here, given their relevance to contemporary art, and in particular to the art that we all participate in.
Bergman's early films sometimes put me off, as I don't generally relate to pure metaphor in film. The Seventh Seal is of course a masterful work, but too deeply literary for my taste. However I found his late television work moving and affecting, nuanced familial dramas grounded in the daily dirt of life.
Antonioni has contributed a tremendous amount to the development of our creative passions. "Blow Up" is as fine a commentary on the inherent obsessiveness of editorial art as I have seen, leading directly into Coppola's "The Conversation" a decade later--these are two films that all music creators and producers should see. Antonioni's "Red Desert" claims a wonderfully bizarre and startling electronic soundtrack, typical of his experimental approach to scoring his films. I haven't yet seen "The Passenger," as I missed it when it was recently re-released to theaters.
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tantan
Actually, Fredo, Tarkovsky's late (maybe last?) move "Nostalghia" is way more ponderous and pretentious and tedious than Solaris. It really borders on unwatchable. But man, is it beautiful, so I love it too. If you can deal with a movie with 0 plot, just a camera roving over abandoned buildings for two hours (that seem like 50) then you're in for the ride of your life.
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oooh, i just solaris for the first time about a year ago and loved it. the only part that was really slow for me was the driving sequences. i remember that highway footage getting really old. the rest though, especially the space sequences were amazing and creepy too. haven't seen the soderbergh version yet so can't compare the two.
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Creepy, yeah, agreed, and the sound design is totally cool--all of these unsettling subsonics, weird crashy sound effects, even during that driving sequence which I agree is probably 3x longer than it needs to be. The Soderbergh version is really great, IMO, if only for the production design and score (but I like the whole thing).
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his last movie was The Sacrifice. Also very tedious and yet magical.
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Wow what a great thread! I feel so at home here with people who have actually seen these movies! Has anyone seen the documentary on the Z channel(Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession)? I highly recommend it to all on this thread for it's wealth of amazing information on film, and the twisted ending!
I'm glad I went through that period of being obsessed with the long and slow film.
The Passenger, Taste of Cherry, Andre Rublyov and Solaris! Love that stuff! Bergman's metaphor period is a bit rough (Virgin Spring) but still shot nice. Cries and Whispers would be his creepiest work if not for the demented From the Lives of the Marionettes! Some more great titles:
Pather Panchali by Satyajit Ray
Sans Soleil by Chris Marker
Quitting by Yang Zhang
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