what's the name of this movie?
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I find it excruciating, but it's considered a masterpiece by film critics and academics.
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before i tell you...
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...will you please...
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...share with us...
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...the reason why...
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...you want to know?
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this way...
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...we can all...
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...be on...
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...the same...
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...(I move away to breathe in)...
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...wavelength.
Why do I want to know? It's always stuck with me and I don't know why. I saw it as a kid and again in a film class at UCSD. I want to see it again and figure out where its power comes from because I've always wanted to adapt and produce a certain short story that requires the same kind of starkness, austerity and tension. I'd never make anything so abstract though--not my style.
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if you want to study something like this, check out the following...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3EO6DS6IRQ
Thanks Zak!
Here's a quote from the guy who made it:
Michael Snow on Wavelength - "I wanted to make a summation of my nervous system, religious inklings and aesthetic ideas. I was thinking of planning for a time monument in which beauty and sadness of equivalence would be celebrated, thinking of trying to make a definitive statement of pure Film space and time, a balance of 'Unison' and 'Fact', all about seeing. " - From 'Film Is: The International Free Cinema' by Stephen Dwoskin)
Glad he cleared it up for us...
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jesus.
...him, not you. i wonder if this inspired the last shot of The Shining? seeing as how it's actually a photograph, not a window.
...him, not you. i wonder if this inspired the last shot of The Shining? seeing as how it's actually a photograph, not a window.