Shooting Down Pictures

Kevin & Dan — This is such a fun, wonderful post. Great work!

Dan, I’m going have to dig up that Bazin essay that talks about the “amalgam” created by professional and non-professonal acting. I don’t believe I’ve ever read it.

Kevin, I had forgotten that the dance-club scene in La Femme Infidele was recorded in one single, continuous take. But it was nice to be guided through the take in your clip.

I saw Dan a couple of hours after he recorded this conversation with you and we talked for a good while about how under-appreciated he is.

Great work as always! Excellent contribution Dan. I like how bringing in different voices help your video essays subtly shift analytical styles…which is all the more interesting when you (Kevin) are doing a back and forth with someone whose interest or attention is drawn to something slightly different…

Ah, just clarifying: how underappreciated CHABROL is…

Thanks, Girish and Danny! Girish, you can find Bazin’s discussion of the amalgam in “An Aesthetic of Reality,” a 1948 essay that was translated for What Is Cinema?.

Thanks, Dan!

i like both films, but Le Boucher seems a weaker sibling to Que La Bete Meure, and i have to say i was impressed by what Lyne did with the other film’s story in Unfaithful.

thank you for fantastic video, i really adore it

nice article dude.. hope it will be useful for many… thanks for sharing it!!!

thanks for posting and the video.