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A Film Canon
http://afilmcanon.blogspot.com/
- Author: Billy Stevenson
- Listed in: Movies Television
- Tags: silent film film history film canon arthouse cinema foreign cinema classic cinema
- Added on: Apr 8th, 2007
- Country: Australia
- Language: English
Over the last few months, two friends and I have compiled a list of approximately 2 500 canonical films. We plan to watch them all over the next few years - in chronological order! I will be posting a short review of each film at this blog, trying to articulate what was distinctive about it, what made it worth watching. When our access to films is delayed, I will record them as invisible posts, ensuring that the chronology is not disrupted.
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Relocation
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Dovzhenko: Zemlya (Earth) (1930)
There's a marked discrepancy between Dovzhenko's cinematic style, which is the most meditative that I have seen to date, and the practical requirements of Soviet ideology. This is all the more notable in a film promoting collectivization, since that...
Buñuel: L'Âge D'Or (The Age Of Gold) (1930)
This is by far the weakest Surrealist film that I have seen to date, partly because Buñuel does nothing of any real interest with the medium. At the very least, the rapid montage of Un Chien Andalou was conducive to psychoanalytically productive fre...
Cocteau: Le Sang D'Un Poète (The Blood Of A Poet) (1930)
This short film opens with a relatively sophisticated statement of the Surrealist project. After falling into his mirror, a young painter finds himself in a endless door-lined corridor. Peering through keyholes, he encounters a series of strange imag...
Von Sternberg: Der Blaue Engel (The Blue Angel) (1930)
It's difficult to fully appreciate this film, just because its appeal is so bound up with a vision of sexuality that now seems outdated, particularly evident in the erotic supremacy of Marlene Dietrich's legs, which not only surpass her breasts, but...
