Jim’s Art Cinema Korner, On: (the) Fidgeting Frame


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Baghead

A handheld camera held by nobodies; a fat guy likes a girl who is way out of his league (but then there is a guy with a bag on his head).

Shot on location in the margins of the actors’ diary (but with a guy with a bag on his head).

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The Take

A handheld camera jitters along a desaturated palette populated by the almost stars of yesteryear; another Training Day/Collateral/Lakeview Terrace entry in the burgeoning genre of Verisimilar Male (On Male) Dom/Sub Fantasy.

Q: Is Vangelis scoring films again? A: Rosie Perez Side Titty.

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Quarantine

A. Handheld Camera in Nightvision and the Conceit of Found Footage; at least Cloverfield had the sense to play its figurative cards close to its gigantic bug monster chest.

Seriously, your movie is just the color part of your trailer happening for 87 minutes. Who Do You Think That You Are Fooling?

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