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Dec. 15th, 2008 08:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
randy_byersTemperatures have dropped below freezing in Seattle and are expected to stay there for the rest of the week. Mind you, it got up to 30 F yesterday, so it's not exactly arctic weather. Still, I put on my longjohns for the walk to work this morning. The sky was an amazing deep, clear periwinkle -- a perfect backdrop for the sharp silver gibbous moon still hanging in the heavens at that hour.
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daveon's housewarming party on Saturday. I think I may have had a little too much to drink. Certainly I felt like death warmed over yesterday, so since Denys and I decided we didn't want to risk icy roads to see Milk on Capitol Hill, I hiked up to the Guild 45th to see Australia again. Felt much the same way I had about it the first time: I really enjoyed it up until the point where she and the drover separate, and after that it gets a bit mechanical and tiresome. Somewhere on the internets I stumbled upon a story that Luhrmann had originally shot an ending where the drover dies, but the studio asked him to change it to a happy ending. I hope that other ending pops up on home video at some point.
After I got home I watched The Italian (1915) on the Perils of the New Land set from Flicker Alley. This is the story of an Italian gondolier who comes to America to make enough money so he can marry the girl he loves. There's an almost documentary quality to the narrative, which delves into big city ward politics, and then moves surprisingly into tragic and melodramatic territory. The other surprise was how much camera movement there was. There was one shot where the camera moved slowly in on the protagonist that had a very modern feeling of growing intimacy. It seemed shocking in a film of that era, but the more films from the Teens I see, the more I realize that experiments with camera movement were already pretty widespread.
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daveon's housewarming party on Saturday. I think I may have had a little too much to drink. Certainly I felt like death warmed over yesterday, so since Denys and I decided we didn't want to risk icy roads to see Milk on Capitol Hill, I hiked up to the Guild 45th to see Australia again. Felt much the same way I had about it the first time: I really enjoyed it up until the point where she and the drover separate, and after that it gets a bit mechanical and tiresome. Somewhere on the internets I stumbled upon a story that Luhrmann had originally shot an ending where the drover dies, but the studio asked him to change it to a happy ending. I hope that other ending pops up on home video at some point.After I got home I watched The Italian (1915) on the Perils of the New Land set from Flicker Alley. This is the story of an Italian gondolier who comes to America to make enough money so he can marry the girl he loves. There's an almost documentary quality to the narrative, which delves into big city ward politics, and then moves surprisingly into tragic and melodramatic territory. The other surprise was how much camera movement there was. There was one shot where the camera moved slowly in on the protagonist that had a very modern feeling of growing intimacy. It seemed shocking in a film of that era, but the more films from the Teens I see, the more I realize that experiments with camera movement were already pretty widespread.
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Date: 2008-12-15 07:31 pm (UTC)PS -- I read your tag as "silent weather" at first. Yeah!
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