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What is contemplative cinema?

2007-01-28 12:02:00 by adrian chan in Reviews and analysis of significant films and movies, on dvd and in theaters
 
...Contemplative Cinema blogathon It must be recognized that the question has a two-fold answer. Who contemplates? The film contemplates; the viewer contemplates. They are different contemplations, for the film's contemplation is given to the viewer's experience for the sake of his or her own contemplation while viewing, as well as for his or...
 
 
 
 
 
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Contemplative Blogathon 2

2007-12-13 20:39:00 by HarryTuttle in Unspoken Cinema
 
...Contemplative Cinema " (C.C.C.) yet This time it will take place over the course of a week only (I somehow expect fewer participations) . And we'll meet on this team-blog (which is working better than last time around). So if you're interested request to join the members to be able to cross-post your contributions here In a spirit of...
 
 
 
 
 
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Gilles Deleuze and Contemplative Cinema

2007-01-27 12:08:00 by adrian chan in Reviews and analysis of significant films and movies, on dvd and in theaters
 
...Contemplative Cinema blogathon Against those who defined Italian neo-realism by its social content, Bazin put forward the fundamental requirement of formal aesthetic criteria. According to him, it was a matter of a new form of reality, said to be dispersive, elliptical, errant or wavering, working in blocs, with deliberately weak connections...
 
 
 
 
 
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Romney on the Contemplative trend

2008-01-14 22:16:00 by HarryTuttle in Unspoken Cinema
 
...contemplative film Tarr is one of the film-makers named by Susan Sontag - in an article published in the Guardian in 1996 - as offering some hope for the continuation of cinema. Sontag was lamenting the death of cinephilia, the attitude that treats cinema as an exceptional art form, "quintessentially modern; distinctively accessible; poetic...
 
 
 
 
 
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Contemplative Blog-a-Thon.

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2008-01-06 13:41:01 by Editor in The Latest from GreenCine Daily
We are all here this week to celebrate Contemplative Cinema , in all its forms, whatever you want it to be," writes Harry Tuttle . "Welcome everyone, thank you very much for your future participation, I hope you'll enjoy it like last time around Today through Sunday, January 13 Comments (0 Comments on this Entry
 
 
 
 
 
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Béla Tarr by David Bordwell

2007-10-02 23:39:00 by HarryTuttle in Unspoken Cinema
 
...Contemplative Cinema ", for lack of a better terminology (I don't know how to call it anymore), as they embody every aspect of this marginal trend of contemporean art cinema. The characteristics detailed in a previous post are Plotlessness, Slowness, Wordlessness, Alienation Bela Tarr eschews plot and storytelling, even refuses to answer...
 
 
 
 
 
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The Wind Blows Where It Will

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2007-12-26 12:20:00 by Tucker in Unspoken Cinema
...contemplative cinema with this film as one example. I have written elsewhere on the topic of contemplative cinema here , here , and here . I have to say my thoughts are still in the formative stage, and may always be The stylistic heritage of The Wind Blows Where It Will is rooted in films like Pickpocket (1959) or The Sacrifice (1986), in...
 
 
 
 
 
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CCC week opening

2008-01-06 01:20:00 by HarryTuttle in Unspoken Cinema
 
CONTEMPLATIVE BLOGATHON 2 Sunday 6th - Sunday 13th, January 2008 Contemporean Contemplative Cinema (a.k.a. CCC, take note) is mostly known and admired for its distinctive camerawork, pace, silence and visual style (long takes, stationary shots, landscapes). Yet I realize I always come back to narrative typologies when attempting to define this...
 
 
 
 
 
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Table of Content (Blogathon 2008)

2008-01-23 12:25:00 by HarryTuttle in Unspoken Cinema
 
...CONTEMPLATIVE TREND Contemplative Films as Art Films by weepingsam (at The Listening Ear Experiential Cinema ( Roundtable2 Are you sitting comfortably? by Jonathan Romney (The Guardian, Saturday October 7, 2000 Romney on the Contemplative trend by HarryTuttle (at Unspoken Cinema NARRATIVE MEANS Wrong Move & our institution of high art by...
 
 
 
 
 
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Second Edition

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2008-01-24 15:25:00 by HarryTuttle in Unspoken Cinema
...Contemplative blogathon only lasted 1 week this year, but it was almost as big ( 36 contributions !) as last year in 3 weeks ( 47 contributions ), topping my most optimistic hopes. So thank you all very much for your generous participation once again. Full table of content for the blogathon 2008 here It is a (good) surprise to see more new...