Back in the spring of 2018 I wrote an essay on Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Dreamers, in which I elaborated on the film’s stylistic strategies and the role of cinephilia as a mode of nostalghia in the dream world of the characters.
Net als vorig jaar besteed ik aandacht aan het Imagine Film Festival, dat dit jaar voor de zesde keer plaatsvindt in EYE Amsterdam. Het brede thema (‘fantastische verhalen’) legitimeert een brede waaier aan films: stokoude volksverhalen gaan hand in hand met futuristische tijdreismysteries. De komende twee weken bespreek ik in een drietal verslagen een greep uit het festivalaanbod.
Zijn we allemaal gewoon luie filmconsumenten geworden, chargeer ik moedwillig? Naar aanleiding van negatieve kritieken op het ’trage’ en ambigue Resurrection (Kristof Hoornaert, 2017) discussieerden twee collega’s en ik over beeldtaal, filmkritiek en filmconsumentisme.
Throughout the past decades, cinema has optimized (the illusion of) depth and movement throughout space. On the two-dimensional screen, we see projected shadows that nonetheless convince us we enter another dimension, in which carefully constructed characters confront us with our hopes, dreams and desires. While there are many subjective examples when referring to the best movies ever made, films like La Régle du Jeu (Jean Renoir, 1939) and Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941) perfected the practice of filmmaking on a technological level. Extremely mobile cameras and deep focus-lenses became the doorways to diegetic spaces that could become sharper, more fluid and extended in a blink of an eye.
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