Re: Re:Voir
Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2022 4:18 pm
It is indeed a Potemkine set.
I'm potentially very interested, but since the post has been deleted I have no idea what set you're talking aboutMatt wrote: Fri Sep 16, 2022 6:59 am Not at all. I think I actually priced it out from both Re:Voir and Potemkine and it was slightly less from the former, if anyone else is considering a purchase.
Answering my own question, I sampled The Wind Is Driving Him Toward the Open Sea and absolutely loved it along the lines of what I expected (though it’s almost Godardian in how Brooke fluidly orchestrates his collage of documentary interviews and sublime home movie footage into a digestible experimental-essayist pattern) so I’ll be picking up this set ASAPtherewillbeblus wrote: Fri Sep 16, 2022 4:17 pmAlso, just trying to catch up on Re:Voir's recent slate, and the David Brooks disc looks great. Seems like another novel eye channeling the kind of soothing heightened perceptiveness as Mekas/Jacobs'- can anyone comment on his work?
There's a wonderful chapter on Brooks in David Ehrenstein's "Film: The Front Line 1984". I loved The Wind Is Driving... too, though it's not so fresh in my memory now. Will pick up the DVD for a revisit, and a chance to finally see Carolyn & Me, which I believe was unfinished at the time of Brooks' death in a car crash aged only 24.therewillbeblus wrote: Sun Sep 25, 2022 6:26 pmAnswering my own question, I sampled The Wind Is Driving Him Toward the Open Sea and absolutely loved it along the lines of what I expected (though it’s almost Godardian in how Brooke fluidly orchestrates his collage of documentary interviews and sublime home movie footage into a digestible experimental-essayist pattern) so I’ll be picking up this set ASAPtherewillbeblus wrote: Fri Sep 16, 2022 4:17 pmAlso, just trying to catch up on Re:Voir's recent slate, and the David Brooks disc looks great. Seems like another novel eye channeling the kind of soothing heightened perceptiveness as Mekas/Jacobs'- can anyone comment on his work?
I spot checked every disc. Except for one, all BD-50 with healthy encodes and even DTS-HD MA 2.0 sound on everything! The one BD-25 is for one of the discs with less than two hours of content. It’s also at least Region A/B if not region free. The packaging is quite unique with irregular cards with pegs holding the discs. Very well made and apparently the set was manufactured in Lithuania.HinkyDinkyTruesmith wrote: Sat Sep 24, 2022 7:32 pm Can anyone comment how the Mekas set measures up to how it looks? I'm very near ordering it.
Have you got the Virgil Widrich disc?therewillbeblus wrote: Tue Nov 01, 2022 4:52 pm Thinking of putting in an order soon and wondering if anyone has any recs from recent releases or ones unmentioned in the thread? I'm definitely going to pick up the Marie Menken set, which looks fantastic
It looks like the individual discs are all still available, however. (Did the box come with a separate book?)
Thanks zedz, yeah I do- mine was the giant order swo posted at the bottom of the group buy on the last page, meaning I have:zedz wrote: Tue Nov 01, 2022 7:45 pmHave you got the Virgil Widrich disc?therewillbeblus wrote: Tue Nov 01, 2022 4:52 pm Thinking of putting in an order soon and wondering if anyone has any recs from recent releases or ones unmentioned in the thread? I'm definitely going to pick up the Marie Menken set, which looks fantastic
Off the top of my head, the recent-ish Marcel Hanoun Seasons box, Garrel and Bokanowski BluRays are all essential.
I think you're right about the individual discs. The box did come with a 100-page book though
Both of those films would be among my top picks. Of the BluRays, La Cicatrice interieure - a crazy, gorgeous film.therewillbeblus wrote: Tue Nov 01, 2022 10:37 pm zedz, which Garrel do you recommend the most? I see a Blu/DVD three-pack but they have a lot of other discs. I've seen Le Lit de la Vierge and Le Révélateur and liked both
What do you mean by "academic" in regards to flicker films? What would a non-academic one looks like, and why? I'm not always taken by flicker films, but this one really worked for me. It seemed to be creating its hypnotic effect from the inside-out rather than a uniform tempo of blinking, which created a kind of visual wave that shifted in rhythm and direction. I don't know if/how that would be possible, but I guess I'm saying that its method of entrancing me felt different than most flicker films, so I'm curious what the differences are and why one might be less interesting than another. I'm definitely less versed in these kinds of experimental films, but I'd like to learn more about the distinctions of interventions and why one might be lauded and another dismissed (If there are good books on the topic too, I'd love to get a rec!)zedz wrote: Thu Apr 09, 2020 5:10 amLight Matter is a rather academic flicker film, and the least interesting thing on the disc.
I'd have to go back to that film to remember exactly what I meant, but the idea of an aesthetics of flicker films is an interesting one, since they're fundamentally about rhythm, but they're also fundamentally physiological and their impact is presumably even more subjective than that of most films. The best flicker films, like Arnulf Rainer, have an alien majesty that's awe-inspiring. It's like an extra-terrestrial intelligence is trying to communicate with you (it's not a message of love and peace) and in doing so is drilling down into your brain. Whereas more lacklustre ones have predictable rhythms and structures (e.g. calm - FRANTIC - calm) or just retread what's already been done better decades earlier.therewillbeblus wrote: Wed Nov 02, 2022 5:11 amWhat do you mean by "academic" in regards to flicker films? What would a non-academic one looks like, and why? I'm not always taken by flicker films, but this one really worked for me. It seemed to be creating its hypnotic effect from the inside-out rather than a uniform tempo of blinking, which created a kind of visual wave that shifted in rhythm and direction. I don't know if/how that would be possible, but I guess I'm saying that its method of entrancing me felt different than most flicker films, so I'm curious what the differences are and why one might be less interesting than another. I'm definitely less versed in these kinds of experimental films, but I'd like to learn more about the distinctions of interventions and why one might be lauded and another dismissed (If there are good books on the topic too, I'd love to get a rec!)zedz wrote: Thu Apr 09, 2020 5:10 amLight Matter is a rather academic flicker film, and the least interesting thing on the disc.