深紫乐队
发表于1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
地下婴儿
发表于7分钟前
回复
:电影《东方红》的拍摄,对1964年的舞台演出版本进行了必要的删减。把舞台剧原有的8场,只选取了序幕“东方红”和前6场的“东方的曙光”、“星火燎原”、“万水千山”、“抗日的烽火”、“埋葬蒋家王朝”、“中国人民站起来”,而后两场的“祖国在前进”和“世界在前进”,则遵照毛泽东的意见,没有收入到电影画面中去。在拍摄演出过程时,大部分画面采用多机位拍摄,而舞台上的许多集体亮相和群众演员的造型,则采用舞台全景和台下观众相互融合在一个画面的广角镜头,以显示出舞台演出的盛大规模,同时,也是把周恩来所反复强调的“不要离开舞台”的指示,很好地进行了艺术化的处理,从而使整部电影画面流动,情景交融,而不是机械式地一个机位固定拍摄。所以,拍摄完成的舞台艺术纪录片,既丝毫没有脱离舞台,又大胆创新,把舞台演出和艺术纪录完美地融合在一起,为今后同类样式的电影拍摄,开辟了一条崭新的道路。