Comments on: The Cinema In-Between: The Anchorage and Agrarian Utopia http://moviemorlocks.com/2010/03/02/the-cinema-of-in-between-ness-the-anchorage-and-agrarian-utopia/ MovieMorlocks.com is the official blog for Turner Classic Movies (TCM). No topic is too obscure or niche to be excluded from our film discussions. And we welcome your comments on our blogs and bloggers. Thu, 24 May 2012 22:16:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: TCM's Classic Movie Blog http://moviemorlocks.com/2010/03/02/the-cinema-of-in-between-ness-the-anchorage-and-agrarian-utopia/#comment-12243 Tue, 06 Apr 2010 18:01:59 +0000 http://moviemorlocks.com/?p=19759#comment-12243 [...] Koehler, Jonathan Romney of Sight & Sound, and filmmaker C.W. Winter (The Anchorage, which I wrote about recently), who placed it on his best-of-the-decade list. It was never picked up for the U.S., and I was [...]

]]> By: vero l http://moviemorlocks.com/2010/03/02/the-cinema-of-in-between-ness-the-anchorage-and-agrarian-utopia/#comment-11757 Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:21:27 +0000 http://moviemorlocks.com/?p=19759#comment-11757 We definitely need more dwelling-on-the-details films. Here’s to the directors and cinematographers who utilize the long cut! I have to give a personal plug for one of my favorite pastoral gems, “The Edge of the World” 1938. This thread adds new meaning to the term “Slow Food Movement”.

]]> By: Anonymous http://moviemorlocks.com/2010/03/02/the-cinema-of-in-between-ness-the-anchorage-and-agrarian-utopia/#comment-11756 Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:14:32 +0000 http://moviemorlocks.com/?p=19759#comment-11756 I have to give a plug for one of my personal favorites, the Edge of the World (1938). Here’s to all the directors and cinematographers who dare to linger on the long cut. I caught the last half of TMCs “Days of Heaven” and still think it is one of the most beautiful cinemagraphed movies made. Just like “Slow Food”, we need more dwelling-on-the-details films.

]]> By: moirafinnie http://moviemorlocks.com/2010/03/02/the-cinema-of-in-between-ness-the-anchorage-and-agrarian-utopia/#comment-11747 Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:55:47 +0000 http://moviemorlocks.com/?p=19759#comment-11747 Hi Rob,
I was thrilled to see you highlight films that focus on the beauty and rigors of pastoral life as it inevitably changes around the world. I love movies that compel me to slow down and see rather than just process a blur of images without much resonance, much less meaning and beauty. This is especially timely since I’ve recently been on a Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack kick, relishing the remarkable creations of Grass: A Nation’s Battle for Survival (1925) and Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness (1927). Wouldn’t it be great if the newer films you’ve examined here could be shown together with older films such as these and Robert Flaherty’s documentaries in a theatrical program?

Perhaps you might be interested in a lovingly crafted recent documentary that I recently saw a portion of called Small Town, USA, about the slow death of rural communities and those trying to revitalize some towns, focusing on towns in Kansas. You can see more here, if you are interested. This film appears to be making the rounds of the festival circuit at this time and is an intriguing American take on this phenomenon.

Btw, I realize that these films are best viewed in a darkened movie theater, as you point out, but could you please tell me if they might eventually become available on DVD? Thanks so much for bringing these movies to my attention in your eloquent piece.

]]> By: wilbur twinhorse http://moviemorlocks.com/2010/03/02/the-cinema-of-in-between-ness-the-anchorage-and-agrarian-utopia/#comment-11743 Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:59:56 +0000 http://moviemorlocks.com/?p=19759#comment-11743 Wow, Monsieur Sweeney, c’est bon! I just saw DAYS OF HEAVEN (tcm), written and directed by Terrence Malick with Academy Award winning cinematography by Nestor Almendros(1978). It would fit in perfectly with your post in a parallel universe? Half the movie could be mistaken for a nature documentary if you tuned in at the right time! In Ezra Goodman’s “The Fifty Year Decline and Fall of Hollywood”, Griffith is quoted saying, “They have forgotten entirely. They have forgotten that no still painting-not the greatest ever-was anything but a still picture. But the moving picture! Today they have forgotten movement in the moving picture-it is all still and stale. We have taken beauty and exchanged it for stilted voices.” (1947) I think this was the same time that he said, “It is my arrogant belief that we have lost beauty.” He passed on the next year, 1948.

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