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The Director Borrowed My Umbrella
The first nine IMDb reviews of Enter the Void start with some first person color no one needs:
Gaspar Noé's big beast of a Cannes entrant showed for the first time in the UK this week in October. Gaspar Noé was there to introduce the film, which was a great kick for me, even though he didn't do a Q&A.
Glad to hear you had a kick.
I was a bit apprehensive prior to the start of this movie. I didn't "get" 2001 at all the first time I watched it and I positively hated David Lynch's ERASERHEAD. Would I enjoy ENTER THE VOID? Understand it? Walk out before the end? Yes, yes and no.
Thank you for your thoughts.
Saw this at the Melbourne International Film Festival. Whilst I didn't enjoy Noe's first film I Stand Alone, I loved Irreversible.
Good to know.
This was my first film at the Stockholm Film Festival, I don't mean to brag but Gaspar Noé got to use my umbrella when the reporters took photos of him in the rain, never going to touch that umbrella again...
Now we really want to see this.
I attended the International Premiere of "Enter the Void" at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival. Fans of director Gaspar Noé, whose film "Irreversible" created a significant following, will not be disappointed.
It's important to know which premiere you attended.
I saw the NY premiere of the directors cut last night and all I can say is I was extremely disappointed.
Maybe if you'd seen it in Toronto...
Where to start? I saw this film nearly a month ago at Melbourne International Film Festival. I haven't quite been able to shake it from my brain since!
That's because you saw it in Melbourne.
At least one of these writers covered Hayao Miyazaki's Ponyo a while back.
post-studio laptop studio
“Thus the studio is a place of multiple activities: production, storage and finally, if all goes well, distribution.”
Buren, Daniel, “The Function of the Studio,” trans. Thomas Repensek, October 10 (Fall 1979): 53 (emphasis added)
The above quote (minus the cheeky emphasis) hails from Caitlin Jones' recent discussion of the internet as post-studio environment. Some good thoughts with mostly terrible examples. (Nasty Nets and Petra Cortright, fine; Oliver Laric and Aleksandra Domanovic, long-winded/didactic; Ryan Trecartin fashion model dress-up page, insufferable/incoherent.)
Jones gets a bit carried away with the supposed openness of the post-studio laptop studio. Plenty happens on the Net that's beyond the artist's reckoning, but that doesn't mean the artist isn't controlling and shaping a persona and how much of an idea "gets out there." Also, how open is a piece of artwork that absolutely "requires Intel-based Mac, OS X v10.5 or later" to be experienced? Many of Jones' examples predate the "login required" social media sites that are fragmenting rather than opening up the Web.
"Open to friends" is not really the same as "open."
"If a tree falls in a walled garden..."
Hat tip Nicholas for the Jones link