Monday, February 11, 2008

Film Court - Lawrence Russell

Brazil. Two young men, one white, one black, and a girl who is mostly white, take a boat down the coast to the "lower city" of Salvador de Bahia. A sex triangle develops....

Says Lawrence Russell: "You could say that the cinematic style of Lower City is typical of today's digi verite movie making, where the hand held camera and fast computer edit gives the action a clandestine look, as if the montage has been assembled from security camera captures. The result is a hi-concept naturalism that places the viewer right inside the action."

Great reviews:

All About My Mother (1999) Almovodar
L'Avventura (1960) Antonioni
The Big Heat (1953) Lang
Black Orpheus (1958) Camus
Blowup (1967) Antonioni
Blue Velvet (1986) Lynch
Breathless (1961) Godard
Crash (1996) Cronenberg
The Conformist (1970) Bertolucci
La Caza (The Hunt, 1965) Saura
La Dolce Vita (1960) Fellini
Eyes Wide Shut (1999) Kubrick
Fellini Satyricon (1970) Fellini
Fight Club (1999) Fincher
First Name: Carmen (1983) Godard
House of Games (1987) Mamet
Heat (1995) Mann
Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959) Resnais
Indiscretion of an American Wife (1953) de Sica
Ivan The Terrible II (1944) Eisenstein
Killer's Kiss (1955) Kubrick
The Last Emperor (1988) Bertolucci
The Motor Cycle Diaries (2004) Salles
Naked Lunch (1991) Cronenberg
Persona (1966) Bergman
The Razor's Edge (1983) Bryum
The Red Desert (Il Deserto Rosso 1964) Antonioni
The Winslow Boy (1999) Mamet

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