James Dickey, in his delightful book of essays The Suspect in Poetry, distinguishes four main ways of reacting to poems which are worth repeating as they may be applicable to film.
FE Author: Shirley Hamburg
Film
by Shirley Hamburg
Fifth Estate # 22, January 15-30, 1967
On opening night of the Fourth Annual New York Film Festival, back in September, there appeared a ‘band of outsiders’ picketing the fountain on the plaza of Lincoln Center. There were maybe four or five men, dressed in black, wearing …
A Note on Current Film Criticism
by Shirley Hamburg
Fifth Estate # 21, January 1-15, 1967
The chief spokesman for the “independent or underground film-makers” in this country is Jonas Mekas.
The Cinephile
by Shirley Hamburg
Fifth Estate # 31, June 1-15, 1967
Film Editing “We’ll save it in the editing.” Though true of James Cruze, Griffith, Stroheim, this maxim was hardly any longer true of Murnau, Chaplin, and becomes irretrievable untrue with sound film. Why? Because in a film such as …
The Cinephile
by Shirley Hamburg
Fifth Estate # 30, May 15-31, 1967
In adapting a bulky, densely detailed novel of seven volumes, Mai Zetterling has extricated the following schema in her movie, “Loving Couples:” her three women have in common a place and a time of arrival, the hospital, set immediately at …