Story? SHTORY??

[Jon Ford]

Hey, Byron-- the no story films are ok  by me. With Mystic River, though, I 
think there is one in there kind of fractured for the purpose of giving that 
"post-modernist" gloss that hides the fact that it is really just modernist  
emotional-indignant stuff designed to make you mad at child  molesters.
Have you seen Fricke's "Baraka" ? That film has no "story," not even any 
dialogue, not actual characters (just faces) and  a bunch of powerful images 
(some of religious rituals, some of Brazilian favelas (slums), some of 
modern hyped-up cities, some of timeless nature in slow mo or fast mo. All 
underscored with some Third world music (heard some Balinese stuff in there, 
as well as African, Aboriginal, Tibetan, etc.)  It's kind of manipulative, 
though.

Jon


>From: "Byron Black" <blacky@cbn.net.id>
>Reply-To: austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net
>To: <GHETTO2@LISTS.WHATHELPS.COM>, 
<austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net>
>Subject: Story? SHTORY??
>Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 09:06:34 +0700
>
>Look, Eric von Weisenheim, if it's stories ye'll be wanting, get in your 
time machine.
>
>Haentchee heerd? Dis is post-moderne, and all us broken-down-chromosome 
LSD-goofs are creating fictions where there were none previously.
>
>Audience can't keep up? Well fuckem if they can't take a yoke (yolk).
>
>BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB
>aka Baron Infinity Mind von Voidville
>
>'You used to be big.'
>'I AM big. It's the pictures that got small.'
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: Jon Ford
>   To: austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net
>   Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 7:35 AM
>   Subject: Re: very good actors in lame movies
>
>
>   Michael-- I'm taking a course in film and religion right now from a 
Sundance Festival film-maker-- every film we've seen has had an 
incomprehensible story -line!
>
>   Jon
>
>
>
>   >From: "Michael Eisenstadt" <michaele@HotPOP.com>
>   >Reply-To: austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net
>   >To: <austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net>
>   >Subject: Re: very good actors in lame movies
>   >Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 08:50:21 -0600
>   >
>   >Jon,
>   >
>   >If you don't mind that the storyline is incomprehensible,
>   >you may enjoy it.
>   >
>   >Michael
>   >
>   >----- Original Message -----
>   >From: "Jon Ford" <jonmfordster@hotmail.com>
>   >To: <austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net>
>   >Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 4:13 PM
>   >Subject: RE: very good actors in lame movies
>   >
>   >
>   > > Michael-- is "Mystic River" really that bad? Now 
i feel I have to see it!
>   > >
>   > > Jon
>   >
>   >
>
>
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