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DAY 7: Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

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2007-08-07 16:29:00 by Damian in Windmills of My Mind
...Close Encounters of the Third Kind is probably the most light-centric film the director has ever made. For the first time in his career Spielberg associates light with enlightenment , with attainment of knowledge and truth, with an almost miraculous spritual experience (like Augustines beautific vision). Close Encounters establishes Spielberg...
 
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The Elusive Close-Up

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2007-10-17 06:51:00 by Gareth in gareth's movie diary
...Close-Up Blog-a-thon at The House Next Door Bamako (2006, Mali, Abderrahmane Sissako The close-up in films from sub-Saharan Africa is a story as much of absence as of presence - an absence that results from a quite conscious aesthetic choice on the part of many directors. As with so much of the history of post-independence cinema in...
 
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Close-ups in Philippine Cinema

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2007-10-19 00:14:00 by Noel Vera in Critic After Dark
...Close-up Blogathon Note and warning: plots of both Tatlong Taong Walang Diyos (Three Years Without God, 1976) and Maynila sa Mga Kuko ng Liwanag (Manila in the Claws of Neon) discussed in close detail An article on the use of close-ups in Philippine cinema probably wouldn't be very long--Filipino filmmakers are mostly narrative...
 
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Critical Reactions: Faraway, So Close

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2008-07-17 07:59:00 by Jeremy Richey in Nostalgia Kinky: The Art Of Nastassja Kinski
...Close , was mixed with critics either finding much to love or much to hate. Here is a small sampling of critical views to Wender's Wings of Desire follow-up Wenders is sincere in his acknowledgement of a spiritual dimension in human experience...he has a marvelous cast (including) Nastassja Kinksi as an angel who remains angelic...Wender's...
 
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Faraway, So Close!

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2008-08-22 08:47:00 by Jeremy Richey in Moon In The Gutter
...Close! at Nostalgia Kinky Wim Wenders follow-up feature to his legendary Wings of Desire is simultaneously one of his most flawed productions and most resonate. Gone is the moody perfection that inhabited so much of his early career, and in its place in Faraway, So Close! is a sprawling over-ambitiousness that is as beautiful as it is...
 
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Faraway, So Close! (1993)

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2008-08-22 07:23:00 by Jeremy Richey in Nostalgia Kinky: The Art Of Nastassja Kinski
...Close! is a sprawling over-ambitiousness that is as beautiful as it is frustrating and as poignant as it is flawed Of the three films Nastassja Kinski made with Wim Wenders, Faraway, So Close! is the weakest and yet there is something profound and right about it. Faraway, So Close! is a overtly spiritual work that has moments that rank...
 
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Chuck Close.

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2008-01-03 04:14:06 by Editor in The Latest from GreenCine Daily
...Close is playing at Film Forum in Manhattan for another week. It's an informative film about the painter, now 67, who first became known for his enormous photo-realist portraits, mostly head shots of Close and art world friends like Philip Glass , Richard Serra and Alex Katz . We watch Close's evolution from a painter of colossal faces with a...
 
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Wenders on Faraway, So Close

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2008-07-30 12:20:00 by Jeremy Richey in Nostalgia Kinky: The Art Of Nastassja Kinski
...Close had a message, especially if they saw it as a Christian message Stories are impossible, but it's impossible to live without them. That's the mess I'm in Interviewed by Daly and Waugh at Film West I think every film is a new exploration of that equation, and that each film defines its own time and its own space, and each film does...
 
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GLENN CLOSE: MY "FATAL ATTRACTION" ROLE SAVED MARRIAGES!

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2008-01-04 19:11:00 by Cinema Retro in Celebrating Films of the 1960s & 1970s
...Close as Alex We loved Glenn Close as Michael Douglas' psycho-mistress in Fatal Attraction and the role had such an impact that we dare not have a bowl of stew without checking the pot first to make sure a rabbit hasn't been added to the ingredients. However, Ms. Close's recent comments that she is told by men that the role saved their...
 
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Close-Up Blog-A-Thon: Intro

2007-10-18 11:02:00 by Dan in The Klaus Kinski Files
 
...Close-Up Blog-A-Thon , a web-based event scheduled to run from October 12-21 that celebrated the greatness of the closeup Naturally, it took about two seconds for me to commit to writing an entry about Klaus Kinski, the man for whom the close-up was invented. And, with today being the 81st anniversar