lucible » Shattuck Cinemas http://www.lucible.com Tue, 01 Jun 2010 22:01:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Mind your own, mumblecore http://www.lucible.com/2009/09/15/mind-your-own-mumblecore/ http://www.lucible.com/2009/09/15/mind-your-own-mumblecore/#comments Wed, 16 Sep 2009 06:05:29 +0000 lucy http://www.lucible.com/?p=358 I’m all for mumblecore…okay, maybe I’m only 62.3% for mumblecore. But could the mumblers at least open their eyes—if not their mouths—and create some visual interest in the frame?

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How many more conversations in cars, shot from the backseat, must we endure? Give me a two-shot from the front, light emanating, Kiss Me Deadly-style, from a mysterious source located along the length of the dashboard, rear-projection in the back window ripping the landscape away from the car as it speeds through the night.

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BEESWAX (2009), aside from its aesthetic lack, does casually depict the daily life of a paraplegic, something we don’t often see in film.

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The Dardenne brothers’ relentlessly hopeful Lorna.  Their films usually have no musical score, but the deluxe “leather” chairs of the Shattuck Cinema, rubbing against one another, obligingly squeaked out a soundtrack for the half-dozen viewers of LORNA’S SILENCE (2008) this afternoon in Berkeley.

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