Phillip Lopate

My Affair with Art House Cinema (eBook, ePUB)

Essays and Reviews

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Phillip Lopate fell hard for the movies as an adolescent. As he matured into an acclaimed critic and essayist, his infatuation deepened into a lifelong passion. My Affair with Art House Cinema presents Lopate's selected essays and reviews from the last quarter century, inviting readers to experience films he found exhilarating, tantalizing, and beguiling-and sometimes disappointing or frustrating-through his keen eyes.

In an essayist's sinuous prose style, Lopate captures the formal mastery, artistic imagination, and emotional intensity of art house essentials like Yasujiro Ozu's Late Spring, David Lynch's Mulholland Drive, and Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris, as well as works by contemporary filmmakers such as Maren Ade, Hong Sang-soo, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Christian Petzold, Paolo Sorrentino, and Jafar Panahi. Essays explore Chantal Akerman's rigorous honesty, Ingmar Bergman's intimacy, Abbas Kiarostami's playfulness, Kenji Mizoguchi's visual style, and Frederick Wiseman's vision of the human condition. Lopate also reflects on the work of fellow critics, including Roger Ebert, Pauline Kael, and Jonathan Rosenbaum. His considered, at times contrarian critiques and celebrations will inspire readers to watch or rewatch these films. Above all, this book showcases Lopate's passionate advocacy for not only particular films and directors but also the joys and value of a filmgoing culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780231561266
• Artikelnr.: 70215038

Autorenporträt

Phillip Lopate is the author of many acclaimed books, including the essay collections Bachelorhood, Against Joie de Vivre, and Portrait of My Body and the novels The Rug Merchant and Confessions of Summer. He is the editor of several anthologies of essays. Lopate taught for many years in the Writing Program at Columbia University School of the Arts.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Curtain Raisers
1. On Changing One's Mind About a Movie
2. How I Look at Movies
Feature Films
3. Maren Ade: The Forest for the Trees
4. Chantal Akerman: No Home Movie
5. Antonioni's Le Amiche: Another Look
6. Ingmar Bergman: Scenes from a Marriage and Saraband
7. Raymond Bernard: Wooden Crosses and Les Misérables
8. Robert Bresson: Mouchette
9. Lino Broca: Insiang
10. John Cassavetes: The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
11. Claude Chabrol: The Swindle
12. George Clooney: Good Night, and Good Luck
13. David Cronenberg: eXistenZ
14. Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
15. Arnaud Desplechin: A Christmas Tale
16. Carl Dreyer: Gertrud
17. Lena Dunham: Tiny Furniture
18. Paul Fejos: Lonesome
19. Emannuel Finkiel: Voyages
20. John Ford: The Sun Shines Bright
21. Jean-Luc Godard: Breathless and Band of Outsiders
22. Hong Sang-soo
23. Hou Hsiao-hsien
24. Otar Iosseliani
25. Elia Kazan
26. Abbas Kiarostami: Through the Olive Trees and Taste of Cherry
27. Hirokazu Kore-eda
28. Akira Kurosawa: Rashomon
29. Alberto Lattuada: Mafioso
30. Richard Linklater: Before Midnight
31. Harold Lloyd: Speedy
32. Ernst Lubitsch
33. Sidney Lumet: Long Day's Journey Into Night
34. David Lynch: Mulholland Drive
35. Duan Makavejev: The Wolf and the Teddy Bear
36. Kenji Mizoguchi: Ugetsu and Utamaro and His Five Women
37. Mikio Naruse: When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
38. Yasujir¿ Ozu: Late Spring
39. Christian Petzold: Barbara
40. Maurice Pialat: Naked Childhood, Van Gogh, and Le Garçu
41. Alain Resnais: Middle and Late Resnais
42. Dino Risi: Il Sorpasso
43. Éric Rohmer: La Collectionneuse, The Marquise of O, and Le Rayon Vert
44. Raúl Ruiz: Time Regained
45. Alexander Sokurov
46. Paolo Sorrentino: The Great Beauty
47. Jean-Marie Straub Not Reconciled
48. Andrei Tarkovsky: Solaris
49. François Truffaut
Intermission: Documentaries and Essay Films
50. Frederick Wiseman: Composing an American Epic
51. Alain Resnais: Night and Fog
52. Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin: Chronicle of a Summer
53. Alan Berliner
54. Robert Gardner: Dead Birds
55. Sam Green and Bill Spiegel: The Weather Underground
56. Jafar Panahi: This Is Not a Film
57. Documentary Splendors and Errors
58. Ross McElwee: Bright Leaves
59. Mark Rappaport's Essay Films
60. Marcel Ophuls
61. City Essay Films
Film Critics
62. The Making of Manny Farber
63. Roger Ebert: Life Itself
64. Stanley Kauffmann
65. Pauline Kael: A Biography
66. Stanley Cavell
67. James Harvey
68. Jonathan Rosenbaum
69. Jonathan Baumbach
Exit Music: A Few Last Thoughts
70. Repertory Movie Theaters, Ravishing Revivals
Conclusion: The Faith of a Cineaste
Notes