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"Where did I see it? Was it at the Art Theater on Eighth Street? Or was it the Beekman? I don’t remember, but I do remember the charge that ran through me the first time I heard that opening musical theme — ominous, staccato, plucked out on strings, so simple, so stark, like the horns that announce the next tercio during a bullfight. And then, the movie. A Mediterranean cruise, bright sunshine, in black and white widescreen images unlike anything I’d ever seen — so precisely composed, accentuating and expressing ... what? A very strange type of discomfort. The characters were rich, beautiful in one way but, you might say, spiritually ugly. Who were they to me? Who would I be to them?"
The Man Who Set Film Free : By MARTIN SCORSESE
Published: August 12, 2007
Fall 07 dramlit.vtheatre.net : Dramatic Literature class *
... Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead - in the Lee H. Salisbury Theatre : Spring 08 : Friday, April 18, 8:15pm
UAF'07
... "Into the Wild" class project for 334 class @ google.com/group/filmstudy [ page ]
Film & Movies -- 2007
guide for case study ?
... "In adapting Jon Krakauer's 1998 best-seller of the same name, writer-director Sean Penn gives him a wealth of material to work with. Hirsch gets to be charming, passionate and idealistic but also impetuous, stubborn and self-righteous. Penn depicts this flawed figure with all the richness and complexity you'd find in the unforgiving Alaskan terrain, presenting McCandless in both his selflessness and selfishness without once judging him or turning him into a martyr.
At the same time, there's an innocence to Into the Wild, with its notions about the purity of freedom, that harkens to films of the late 1960s like Easy Rider. And Penn, working with cinematographer Eric Gautier (The Motorcycle Diaries) and sometimes shooting his own footage, captures the grit and grandeur of this nation so vividly, he almost makes you want to chuck it all, too, and head for the open road."
* What is more beautiful -- nature or man's heart? "Happiness is real only when shared."
Alexander Supertramp -- the never ending US adolescence, ... boy dies, but man is not born.
... "Innocence" -- you don't want it in Iraq.
2009 :
stagematrix.com + cine101.com
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2008-2009
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