Worth Watching #124: What is neorealism?

Two visions of the same movie. One by the director of The Bicycle Thieves. One by the producer of Gone With the Wind. - Eric Maierson What is neorealism? from kogonada on Vimeo. Also see the accompanying essays: Video essay: What is neorealism? Indiscretion of an American Wife & Terminal Station "Every cut is a form of judgment, whether it takes place on the set or in the editing room. A cut reveals what matters and what doesn’t. It delineates the essential from the non-essential. To examine the cuts of a filmmaker is to uncover an approach to cinema." See what else we think is Worth Watching.

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Worth Watching #121: Tom Clancy’s The Division

Setting aside the improbable causality, there is no denying Patrick Clair's skillful vision of a system rapidly deteriorating. Through repetition of form layered between settings that fold into one another, both camera movement and construction of type work to support the concept that everything is linked. For me the piece is most successful in its use of space and timing in its second act, after 1:49, as the viewer is forced to swim through a dark, endless void of possibilities. - Joe Fuller Tom Clancy's The Division from Patrick Clair on Vimeo. See what else we think is Worth Watching.

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