tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5569750317755310322.post3763287353071637636..comments2023-11-19T04:43:33.827+11:00Comments on Matt vs. the Academy: 1975 - Barry LyndonMatt Fosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10317583098531787395noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5569750317755310322.post-75120196274921458432010-05-29T04:59:41.655+10:002010-05-29T04:59:41.655+10:00Yeah, "Tom Jones" set the expectations a...Yeah, "Tom Jones" set the expectations at a canted angle, so when Kubrick comes along and tries to evoke the era and its pace and eccentric formality, it's seen as "slow." Well, if you want it to "feel" like the 18th century, you don't employ MTV cutting. At this point, Kubrick was buried deep in the soil of film-making, looking for new approaches that hadn't been done before. And it always takes a few years for audiences to wake up and appreciate the flowers."Yojimbo_5"https://www.blogger.com/profile/12791996320278381516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5569750317755310322.post-17069823695504882852010-05-10T21:12:19.658+10:002010-05-10T21:12:19.658+10:001975's Best Picture Race is all too complicate...1975's Best Picture Race is all too complicated for me... I've seen all, but none recently. I liked them all, but found flaws in them. Jaws is maybe the most dedicated to its genre, but isn't it a bit embarassing to chose Jaws as ur BP of 1975? :P<br /><br />I wouldn't go with Cuckoo, neither with Nashville, I guess. Which leaves Barry (I didn't like it back then but it grew) and Dog Day Afternoon, which is not really my type.<br /><br />tough call.Alex Constantinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09940311552608814201noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5569750317755310322.post-57449264954973212602010-05-08T02:06:56.696+10:002010-05-08T02:06:56.696+10:00EC: Yep, that's it in a nutshell.
Mike: I als...EC: Yep, that's it in a nutshell.<br /><br />Mike: I also felt acutely aware of certain cinematic conventions but, like you, after a while, all that faded into the background and I became absorbed by this historical world. Kubrick has a knack for that - adding just the slightest bit of quirkiness, which you very quickly adapt to and then hardly notice at all.Matt Fosterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10317583098531787395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5569750317755310322.post-10080857547259617162010-05-06T23:48:46.454+10:002010-05-06T23:48:46.454+10:00I remember having a disagreement with a friend whe...I remember having a disagreement with a friend when Barry Lyndon came out over its merits as a motion picture. She called it a coffee table book of a movie that just laid there inert. (I think she must have read Pauline Kael's review since she used those exact descriptive words.) Kael felt Kubrick had worked out the visuals magnificently , but failed miserably with the dramatics. <br /><br />At the time, I was a die-hard Kubrick fan, and defended his approach, saying that if one goes into Barry Lyndon expecting Tom Jones, there will be inevitable disappointment. Kubrick filmed it exactly as he wanted. Yes, the story is laid out before us in titles and narration designed to pretty much tell us what is going to happen before it does. I think Kubrick wanted to take Thakeray's novel and let it unfold as it would while reading.<br /><br />Looking at it again last week, I don't disagree with his approach. He draws you into its world and leisurely gives you Redmond Barry's rise and fall. At first the repetitive zooms, whether going out to in or in to out, call attention to themselves. Soon however, I forgot about them and was absorbed into the story and the time period.<br /><br />Today, it is still a divisive film, but it has risen critically and can stand alongside the other nominees for 1975 and in some cases in front of them. It certainly is the alternative choice of that year.Mike Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14953461679716236054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5569750317755310322.post-1492162030005864642010-05-06T08:14:11.087+10:002010-05-06T08:14:11.087+10:00Great film slow but visually spectacular
ECGreat film slow but visually spectacular<br />ECAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com