In Defense of Julia Leigh's "Sleeping Beauty"
Mirror Mirror (2012)
Immortals (2011)
Teresa, el cuerpo de Cristo (2007)
The Fall (2006)
Varekai - Cirque du Soleil
The Cell (2000)
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
Closet Land (1991)
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985)
The movie seemed a smooth, square and practical telling of the book. I remember being fascinated by director Robert Wise's choice of four distinctively un-distinctive actors for his cast:
Two were Universal-contract bland guys: Arthur Hill("Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law") and James Olson (who actually beat Robert Duvall in bald-blandness on the screen; they're together in "Joe Kidd" with Clint Eastwood and hard to tell apart.)
One was a then-prominent Canadian stage actress named Kate Reid, with a distinctively against-the-grain middle-aged-feistiness (she's kinda reminiscent of Pauline Kael here.)
And the fourth was a veteran character guy of old MGM movies ("Adam's Rib") and 60's TV ("The Mad Hatter" on Batman), David Wayne. Wayne had really played his Batman villain with flamboyant flourish, and he was allowed to let some of that intensity seep through here, even among these dull scientists.
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Alfred Hitchcock was working at Universal in the 70's and wrote to his friend Francois Truffaut that Universal was demanding that all scripts be salted with "anti-Establishment themes, young heroes, few older people, and references to the counterculture."
Kenneth Anger Hollis Frampton David Robbins Stan Brakhage David Gatten Paul Sharits Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville Harry Smith Joseph Cornell Jack Goldstein Erich von Stroheim Maya Deren Ken Jacobs Leslie Thornton Sergei Eisenstein Gregory Markopoulos Dziga Vertov Oskar Fischinger Albert and David Maysles Andy Warhol Morgan Fisher Pier Paolo Pasolini