{"id":43764,"date":"2020-01-31T15:14:39","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T21:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/?p=43764"},"modified":"2020-01-31T16:12:47","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T22:12:47","slug":"vampyr-and-more-on-the-criterion-channel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/2020\/01\/31\/vampyr-and-more-on-the-criterion-channel\/","title":{"rendered":"VAMPYR and more on the Criterion Channel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/No-34-600-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/No-34-600-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/No-34-600-2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/No-34-600-2-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/No-34-600-2-500x279.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>DB here:<\/p>\n<p>Busy times! I&#8217;ve gone back to teaching this semester, and we&#8217;re revising <em>Film History: An Introduction. <\/em>So we&#8217;ve been\u00a0kept from posting as often as we&#8217;d like. For the moment just let me signal the newest additions to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.criterionchannel.com\/observations-on-film-art\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">our Observations series<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.criterionchannel.com\/browse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Criterion Channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In recent installments, Kristin offers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.criterionchannel.com\/withholding-and-revealing-in-an-angel-at-my-table\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an analysis <\/a>of how film technique suppresses and reveals story points in Jane Campion&#8217;s <em>An Angel at My Table<\/em>. A free extract is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.criterion.com\/current\/posts\/6662-the-art-of-withholding-and-revealing-in-an-angel-at-my-table\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/No-32-500-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43769\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/No-32-500-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/No-32-500-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/No-32-500-1-150x86.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jeff Smith traces how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.criterionchannel.com\/feminist-mise-en-scene-in-my-brilliant-career\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mise-en-scene techniques<\/a>, especially settings, yield feminist implications in Gillian Armstrong&#8217;s <em>My Brilliant Career<\/em>. Sample it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.criterion.com\/current\/posts\/6743-feminizing-the-western\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/no.-33-500.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43770\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/no.-33-500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/no.-33-500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/no.-33-500-150x85.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This month, as you see above, I&#8217;ve offered a consideration of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.criterionchannel.com\/vampyr-the-genre-film-as-experimental-film\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Vampyr<\/em> as an experimental film<\/a>. Again, you can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.criterion.com\/current\/posts\/6771-carl-theodor-dreyer-s-most-unusual-experiment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">see a clip<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the people who&#8217;ve told us they enjoy our offerings, now running for nearly three years, longer than <em>Joanie Loves Chachi.<\/em> Thanks\u00a0as well as to the group that makes it possible: Peter Becker, Kim Hendrickson, Grant Delin, Erik Gunneson, and the rest of the team in Madison and Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Burt-600.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43772\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Burt-600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Burt-600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Burt-600-150x85.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Burt-600-500x282.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>With the Channel sponsoring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.criterionchannel.com\/starring-burt-lancaster\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an ambitious seventeen-film Burt Lancaster series<\/a>, you might check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.criterionchannel.com\/brute-force-the-actor-s-toolkit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this entry on <strong>Brute Force<\/strong><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DB here: Busy times! I&#8217;ve gone back to teaching this semester, and we&#8217;re revising Film History: An Introduction. So we&#8217;ve been\u00a0kept from posting as often as we&#8217;d like. For the moment just let me signal the newest additions to our Observations series on the Criterion Channel. In recent installments, Kristin offers an analysis of how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[262,105,1,60,59,208],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-criterion-channel","category-directors-dreyer","category-film-comments","category-technique-cinematography","category-technique-staging","category-national-cinemas-australia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43764"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43777,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43764\/revisions\/43777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}