叶蓓
发表于2分钟前回复 :转自：http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff/2010/views-from-the-avant-garde-friday-october-1/views-from-the-avant-garde-jean-marie-straub“The end of paradise on earth.”—Jean-Marie StraubThe 33rd verse and last chant of “paradise” in Dante’s Divine Comedy. The film starts with verse 67, “O somma luce…” and continues to the end. “O Somma luce” recalls the first words uttered by Empedocles in Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub’s 1987 The Death of Empedocles—“O himmlisch Licht!…” (O heavenly light!). This extract from Hölderlin’s text is also inserted into their 1989 film Cézanne.“O somma luce” invokes utopia, or better still “u-topos,” Dante, Holderlin, Cézanne… the camera movement, recalling Sisyphus, in the film’s long shots, suggests its difficulty.In O somma luce, with Giorgio Passerone’s Dante and the verse that concluded the Divine Comedy, we find at the extremity of its possibilities, the almost happy speech of a man who has just left earthly paradise, who tries to fully realize the potential of his nature. Between the two we find the story of the world. The first Jean-Marie Straub film shot in HD.So singular are the textual working methods of Straub-Huillet, and now Straub on his own, that it is hard to grasp how far reaching they are. Direction is a matter of words and speech, not emotions and action. Nothing happens at the edges, everything is at the core and shines from there alone.During the rehearsals we sense a slow process by which ingredients (a text, actors, an intuition) progress towards cohesiveness. It is, forgive the comparison, like the kneading of dough. It is the assembling and working of something until it becomes something else… and, in this case, starts to shine. Actually it’s very simple, it’s just a question of opening up to the light material that has been sealed up. Here, the process of kneading is to bring to life and then reveal. The material that is worked on is speech. So it is speech that becomes visible—nothing else. “Logos” comes to the cinema.The mise en scène of what words exactly?The process of revealing, “phainestai”; “phainomenon,” the phenomenon, is what take splace, what becomes visible to the eye.Is “Straubie” Greece?This mise en scène of speech, which goes beyond a close reading of the chosen text, is truly comes from a distant source.—Barbara Ulrich
辛小玲
发表于3分钟前回复 :具争议性和开创性的喜剧演员伦尼布鲁斯的传记电影，全片追溯伦尼布鲁斯反政府的政治观点。全片以倒叙的手法，分别从母亲、妻子和经纪人的角度出发讲叙了喜剧演员伦尼布鲁斯的一生。在伦尼布鲁斯早年还未出名之际，那时他只是个普普通通的喜剧演员，他遇到了跳脱衣舞的哈妮，并爱上了她。不顾经纪人阿蒂和母亲的反对，伦尼坚持同哈妮举行了婚礼，并与老闆发生争执，因为他坚持要按照自己的个人风格进行表演，老闆一怒之下将他解雇。这时，哈妮受伤住进了医院，伦尼在探病期间同一个护士关係暧昧，对此有所察觉的哈妮同伦尼吵闹了一番。后来，他们搬到了加尼福尼亚。虽然伦尼极力反对，哈妮还是重操旧业，当起了脱衣舞女。伦尼沉迷于吸毒不能自拔，哈妮生下了一个孩子，夫妻间常为吸毒的事而爆发激烈的争吵。有了孩子的第二年，他们分手了。因有贩卖毒品的嫌疑，哈妮被捕入狱。伦尼此时却因发挥出自己的喜剧天才获得观众认可，在事业上有了突破，成为红极一时的明星，但知名度却并未改善伦尼的境遇......
