[MacDV] Re: The Way Of The Master

[James Asherman]

On Friday, January 30, 2004, at 04:44  AM, YangZone at aol.com wrote:

> Moan... here we go... this is a DV list...  
>> Helped you what?
> Helped me appreciate the art of storytelling through film making. 
> Aronofsky nailed (pun not intended) Selbys story. Every year there are 
> a few movies that bring something to storytelling... film makers find 
> themselves pointing to (in this case, momentarily) with the way of the 
> Masters (of cinema)... (Bunuel, Godard, Fellini, Kurosawa, etc)
>
> It's not so much the story as the way it's told.  Requiem has a lot of 
> qualities... but, while it shows good directing and especially 
> interesting and dynamic editing, it has shock value... and this shock 
> might help our lista. (A (short) bout with H might even help him in 
> this situation... not that I'd recommend it - 'more inclined to Lewis 
> Carrol's brand of tipple as a remedy for this situation).
>
> The web site that we were directed to is probably not going to do do 
> much for DV  - the person who referred the site seems to need help 
> (just as Mrs.Goldfarb needed it), help to focus on DV editing 
> anyway... what this list is about... so, my 2 cents is to suggest 
> watching Requiem - to help this person to find something meaningful in 
> life and inspire him to focus on story telling through DV editing 
> (possibly as a  way to save himself?)  and if he ends up doing 
> weddings maybe someone will suggest something else to help him further 
> along the way... (the way of the Masters... ?)
>
> (if this were a religion site instead of a DV site and I had any 
> insight I'd probably recommend a scripture... know any good ones? ... 
> 'just kidding... I mean it Yakof... 'just kidding!)
>
>  PJ
>
>

I didn't know it was shot in DV. Cool
Jim