Showing posts with label Canada. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Canada. Show all posts
Saturday, August 10, 2013
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
The Grub Stake Revisited
When you attend a silent film screening with live accompaniment, you can’t be sure that the music you’re going to hear will be to your taste. It’s rare that the music is actually bad—but sometimes it seems wrong for the film you’re watching; or at least, wrong for you. This is a risk you take, mitigated by the possibility that you’ll hear an expertly delivered, revelatory score instead. One that approaches the film in ways you hadn’t considered. I’ve been to such screenings. They’re wonderful.
Last night wasn’t one of those nights.
Thursday, January 17, 2013
Friday, June 22, 2012
Nanook of the North (1922)
This post is based on a screening of Nanook of the North, with live accompaniment, held at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) Bell Lightbox on June 21, 2012.
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Time keeps moving and with it, the boundary lines for acceptable artistic expression. Take, for example, Nanook of the North: an influential, successful documentary that would not be made today. At least, not the way it was made in 1922.
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