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Monday, January 20, 2003

Bed is for pansies!

I've been futzing with style sheets and archives and everything is a mess right now. Don't get your panties in a wad over it. I recommend you distract yourself from the mess here by seeing the dazzling and dreamlike film Russian Ark. Shot in the Hermitage in St. Petersburg in one continuous shot (!), it flits around "telling" a story of two men who tumble through time, visiting various eras of Russian history. The Steadicam work by Tilman Buttner is an absolute technical marvel but the film has a true, sad Proustian beauty beyond the DV-geekery. The guy playing Pushkin was kind of cute. And holy crap, were there ever a *lot* of extras in the final scene after the ball. Impressive and lovely, and really completely unlike anything made before.

Posted at 12:40 AM

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001. trg

Did you see this at Cinema Village? Holy Jesus, I've been on airplanes that had roomier seats!

Posted at 04:29PM on Tuesday, January 21, 2003

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