Last year the The Globe & Mail released an article entitled "What is Wrong with the Canadian Film Industry?" that outlined the problems facing our country’s cinema: low box-office numbers, a crisis of English-Canadian identity, an inability to compete with Hollywood entertainments etc., etc. Focused entirely on the industry, the piece fails to mention the resurgence that had been taking root for quite some time. 2015 was an important year for Canadian cinema, but while Room, Hyena Road and Wet Bum ate up the article’s word count, three of the year’s great Canadian films by emerging directors went unnoticed: Isiah Medina’s 88:88, Kurt Walker’s Hit 2 Pass, and Kazik Radwanski’s How Heavy This Hammer. Equating cinema with ‘content,’ a product to be bought and sold, the article is as much a reflection of the problems with Canadian cinema as an exposition of it. But this insidious...
- 11/29/2016
- MUBI
The primary means of thinking through John Ford‘s cinema tends to be visual — which, yes, is only fair when his mastery of blocking, cutting, and pacing are never not something to marvel at. But let’s take a moment to consider something that’s generally undervalued: the sound design, how he’d come to evolve before and after World War II, and how time documenting the conflict might have changed his perception of realism.
These matters are explored thoroughly yet efficiently in a new video essay by Will Ross, one that contrasts clips from two of his best-known westerns, Stagecoach and My Darling Clementine, with audio charts to map the specifics of how Ford weighs action’s processes. This sounds complex, yet, like one of the director’s great films, it illustrates a many-headed thing by including only that which is essential. And you get a little history lesson,...
These matters are explored thoroughly yet efficiently in a new video essay by Will Ross, one that contrasts clips from two of his best-known westerns, Stagecoach and My Darling Clementine, with audio charts to map the specifics of how Ford weighs action’s processes. This sounds complex, yet, like one of the director’s great films, it illustrates a many-headed thing by including only that which is essential. And you get a little history lesson,...
- 8/29/2016
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
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