Saturday, March 27, 2010

bigger than life





image 4+5 (a door opening) very bressonian






chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying

fight sequence toward the end of nicholas ray's bigger than life - 1956
cinematography by joe macdonald

rather disorienting camera work accompanied by an equally disorienting sound track
(a tv turned out to drown out the sound of the killing)

2 comments:

Glorious Jail said...

Just saw this film.Very ahead of it's times and one of the best depictions of the subtleties of psychosis.

the art of memory said...

truly out to lunch