Re: [Videolib] Cool reference question...your assistance?

2010-11-02 Thread Elizabeth Stanley
Gary and deg,

To add to the wordless doc list, from Bullfrog Films: 

Translation Possible http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/trans.html
Using a simple filmic device, this film illustrates (visually, without
words) the disorientation we all feel on encountering a new culture, and
the way we gradually learn to fit in. 

Flight of the Stone (Steinflug)
http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/flight.html
Witty pixilation follows a stone, thrown in anger, in its flight around
the world. Wordless.

Toast  http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/t.html

Wake Up, Freddy!  http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/wuf.html

Thanks,
Elizabeth
Bullfrog Films

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To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu
Subject: Re: [Videolib] Cool reference question...your assistance?

Gary

Assume you prefer feature films, but on the documentary side there is
Our Daily Bread (Not the King Vidor title, but the documentary
distributed by Icarus)

Welcome to the world of industrial food production and high-tech
farming. Produced between October 2003 and October 2005 the film looks
into the places where food is produced in European farms, greenhouses,
processing plants and other places where crops and animals are
cultivated and processed to become food for people. The images of food
and animals treated as an industrial products are presented without
comment.  No dialogue, just the sounds of machines and ambient noise.

-deg


Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 09:05:53 -0700


I'm looking for examples of films that do interesting things with words,
either written or spoken, or (at the other extreme) try to do without
words. I've got lots of silent films with title cards I can use, but I
am looking for others. Some that come to mind include The Man with the
Movie Camera, My Dinner with Andre, and Koyaanisqatsi. Any further
suggestions? I'm interested in credits, subtitles, words on sets,
dialogue, voiceover, etc.

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[Videolib] Cool reference question...your assistance?

2010-11-01 Thread ghandman
Hi all

An ex-Berkeley faculty friend has posed a very cool reference question...I
can use your help:

I'm looking for examples of films that do interesting
things with words, either written or spoken, or (at the other extreme) try
to do without words. I've got lots of silent films with title cards I can
use, but I am looking for others. Some that come to mind include The Man
with the Movie Camera, My Dinner with Andre, and Koyaanisqatsi. Any
further suggestions? I'm interested in credits, subtitles, words on sets,
dialogue, voiceover, etc.


I've come up with Bob Dylan's lyric cards for Subterranean Homesick Blues
in Don't Look Back; the meta credits from the movie Stranger Than
Fiction; Buster Keaton in Samuel Beckett's Film(1965); and--oddly
enough--two Steve Martin Films (LA Story's sentient freeway sign and C.D.
Bales' [i.e. Cyrano's] hilarious put-down speech: Let's start with...
Obvious: 'scuse me, is that your nose or did a bus park on your face? )

I think Adaptation might have some relevant stuff, but I can't quite
remember.

What do you say?

Gary Handman
Director
Media Resources Center
Moffitt Library
UC Berkeley

510-643-8566
ghand...@library.berkeley.edu
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC

I have always preferred the reflection of life to life itself.
--Francois Truffaut


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Re: [Videolib] Cool reference question...your assistance?

2010-11-01 Thread Wochna, Lorraine
No words in Triplettes of Belleville only sound.

lorraine


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Re: [Videolib] Cool reference question...your assistance?

2010-11-01 Thread Kim Crowley
Napoleon Dynamite opening credits are fun.
kc

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Flathead County Library System phone: 406.758.5826
247 First Avenue East   fax:   406.758.5868
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On Behalf Of ghand...@library.berkeley.edu [ghand...@library.berkeley.edu]
Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 9:43 AM
To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu
Subject: [Videolib] Cool reference question...your assistance?

Hi all

An ex-Berkeley faculty friend has posed a very cool reference question...I
can use your help:

I'm looking for examples of films that do interesting
things with words, either written or spoken, or (at the other extreme) try
to do without words. I've got lots of silent films with title cards I can
use, but I am looking for others. Some that come to mind include The Man
with the Movie Camera, My Dinner with Andre, and Koyaanisqatsi. Any
further suggestions? I'm interested in credits, subtitles, words on sets,
dialogue, voiceover, etc.


I've come up with Bob Dylan's lyric cards for Subterranean Homesick Blues
in Don't Look Back; the meta credits from the movie Stranger Than
Fiction; Buster Keaton in Samuel Beckett's Film(1965); and--oddly
enough--two Steve Martin Films (LA Story's sentient freeway sign and C.D.
Bales' [i.e. Cyrano's] hilarious put-down speech: Let's start with...
Obvious: 'scuse me, is that your nose or did a bus park on your face? )

I think Adaptation might have some relevant stuff, but I can't quite
remember.

What do you say?

Gary Handman
Director
Media Resources Center
Moffitt Library
UC Berkeley

510-643-8566
ghand...@library.berkeley.edu
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC

I have always preferred the reflection of life to life itself.
--Francois Truffaut


VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues 
relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, 
preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and 
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between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and 
distributors.
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Re: [Videolib] Cool reference question...your assistance?

2010-11-01 Thread Nancy E. Friedland
Might be off-track but Robert Altman and overlapping dialogue.

Nancy



On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Kim Crowley kcrow...@flathead.mt.govwrote:

 Napoleon Dynamite opening credits are fun.
 kc

 Kim Crowley, Director
 Flathead County Library System phone: 406.758.5826
 247 First Avenue East   fax:   406.758.5868
 Kalispell, MT. 59901-4598
 kcrow...@flathead.mt.gov

 read our blog @ http://flatheadcountylibrary.blogspot.com/
 
 From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [
 videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of
 ghand...@library.berkeley.edu [ghand...@library.berkeley.edu]
 Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 9:43 AM
 To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu
 Subject: [Videolib] Cool reference question...your assistance?

 Hi all

 An ex-Berkeley faculty friend has posed a very cool reference question...I
 can use your help:

 I'm looking for examples of films that do interesting
 things with words, either written or spoken, or (at the other extreme) try
 to do without words. I've got lots of silent films with title cards I can
 use, but I am looking for others. Some that come to mind include The Man
 with the Movie Camera, My Dinner with Andre, and Koyaanisqatsi. Any
 further suggestions? I'm interested in credits, subtitles, words on sets,
 dialogue, voiceover, etc.


 I've come up with Bob Dylan's lyric cards for Subterranean Homesick Blues
 in Don't Look Back; the meta credits from the movie Stranger Than
 Fiction; Buster Keaton in Samuel Beckett's Film(1965); and--oddly
 enough--two Steve Martin Films (LA Story's sentient freeway sign and C.D.
 Bales' [i.e. Cyrano's] hilarious put-down speech: Let's start with...
 Obvious: 'scuse me, is that your nose or did a bus park on your face? )

 I think Adaptation might have some relevant stuff, but I can't quite
 remember.

 What do you say?

 Gary Handman
 Director
 Media Resources Center
 Moffitt Library
 UC Berkeley

 510-643-8566
 ghand...@library.berkeley.edu
 http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC

 I have always preferred the reflection of life to life itself.
 --Francois Truffaut


 VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues
 relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control,
 preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and
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Re: [Videolib] Cool reference question...your assistance?

2010-11-01 Thread Jessica Rosner
Well there are number of amazing Fast talking films  with overlapping 
fast dialogue, probably the most famous is HIS GIRL  FRIDAY, but film fans
claim the all time fastest dialogue was in THE TRIAL OF VIVIENNE WARE
(1932) . Many years later Altman did wonderful things with overlapping
dialogue in CALIFORNIA SPLIT among others. Mel Brook's silent film has a lot
of fun with the idea of a modern silent film with title cards and of course
only one word of actual dialogue. Also credit where credit is do, THE SIXTH
SENSE may make the most imaginative use of dialogue since the end forces you
to reevaluate  all the previous dialogue. For non word films, THE LAST
LAUGH. It has not title cards at all.

On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 11:43 AM, ghand...@library.berkeley.edu wrote:

 Hi all

 An ex-Berkeley faculty friend has posed a very cool reference question...I
 can use your help:

 I'm looking for examples of films that do interesting
 things with words, either written or spoken, or (at the other extreme) try
 to do without words. I've got lots of silent films with title cards I can
 use, but I am looking for others. Some that come to mind include The Man
 with the Movie Camera, My Dinner with Andre, and Koyaanisqatsi. Any
 further suggestions? I'm interested in credits, subtitles, words on sets,
 dialogue, voiceover, etc.


 I've come up with Bob Dylan's lyric cards for Subterranean Homesick Blues
 in Don't Look Back; the meta credits from the movie Stranger Than
 Fiction; Buster Keaton in Samuel Beckett's Film(1965); and--oddly
 enough--two Steve Martin Films (LA Story's sentient freeway sign and C.D.
 Bales' [i.e. Cyrano's] hilarious put-down speech: Let's start with...
 Obvious: 'scuse me, is that your nose or did a bus park on your face? )

 I think Adaptation might have some relevant stuff, but I can't quite
 remember.

 What do you say?

 Gary Handman
 Director
 Media Resources Center
 Moffitt Library
 UC Berkeley

 510-643-8566
 ghand...@library.berkeley.edu
 http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC

 I have always preferred the reflection of life to life itself.
 --Francois Truffaut


 VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues
 relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control,
 preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and
 related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective
 working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication
 between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and
 distributors.

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Re: [Videolib] Cool reference question...your assistance?

2010-11-01 Thread Chris Lewis
A man escaped  - with it's spare dialog and narration, depends mostly
on sounds and images to tell the story.

On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 11:43 AM,  ghand...@library.berkeley.edu wrote:
 Hi all

 An ex-Berkeley faculty friend has posed a very cool reference question...I
 can use your help:

 I'm looking for examples of films that do interesting
 things with words, either written or spoken, or (at the other extreme) try
 to do without words. I've got lots of silent films with title cards I can
 use, but I am looking for others. Some that come to mind include The Man
 with the Movie Camera, My Dinner with Andre, and Koyaanisqatsi. Any
 further suggestions? I'm interested in credits, subtitles, words on sets,
 dialogue, voiceover, etc.


 I've come up with Bob Dylan's lyric cards for Subterranean Homesick Blues
 in Don't Look Back; the meta credits from the movie Stranger Than
 Fiction; Buster Keaton in Samuel Beckett's Film(1965); and--oddly
 enough--two Steve Martin Films (LA Story's sentient freeway sign and C.D.
 Bales' [i.e. Cyrano's] hilarious put-down speech: Let's start with...
 Obvious: 'scuse me, is that your nose or did a bus park on your face? )

 I think Adaptation might have some relevant stuff, but I can't quite
 remember.

 What do you say?

 Gary Handman
 Director
 Media Resources Center
 Moffitt Library
 UC Berkeley

 510-643-8566
 ghand...@library.berkeley.edu
 http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC

 I have always preferred the reflection of life to life itself.
 --Francois Truffaut


 VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues 
 relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, 
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American University Library
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Re: [Videolib] Cool reference question...your assistance?

2010-11-01 Thread Jessica Rosner
Another no dialogue film is THE THIEF with Raymond Milland.

Obviously various theatrical adaptations particularly Pinter  Stoppard
would have some unusual use of language.

On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Chris Lewis cle...@american.edu wrote:

 A man escaped  - with it's spare dialog and narration, depends mostly
 on sounds and images to tell the story.

 On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 11:43 AM,  ghand...@library.berkeley.edu wrote:
  Hi all
 
  An ex-Berkeley faculty friend has posed a very cool reference
 question...I
  can use your help:
 
  I'm looking for examples of films that do interesting
  things with words, either written or spoken, or (at the other extreme)
 try
  to do without words. I've got lots of silent films with title cards I can
  use, but I am looking for others. Some that come to mind include The Man
  with the Movie Camera, My Dinner with Andre, and Koyaanisqatsi. Any
  further suggestions? I'm interested in credits, subtitles, words on sets,
  dialogue, voiceover, etc.
 
 
  I've come up with Bob Dylan's lyric cards for Subterranean Homesick Blues
  in Don't Look Back; the meta credits from the movie Stranger Than
  Fiction; Buster Keaton in Samuel Beckett's Film(1965); and--oddly
  enough--two Steve Martin Films (LA Story's sentient freeway sign and C.D.
  Bales' [i.e. Cyrano's] hilarious put-down speech: Let's start with...
  Obvious: 'scuse me, is that your nose or did a bus park on your face? )
 
  I think Adaptation might have some relevant stuff, but I can't quite
  remember.
 
  What do you say?
 
  Gary Handman
  Director
  Media Resources Center
  Moffitt Library
  UC Berkeley
 
  510-643-8566
  ghand...@library.berkeley.edu
  http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC
 
  I have always preferred the reflection of life to life itself.
  --Francois Truffaut
 
 
  VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of
 issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic
 control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in
 libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as
 an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of
 communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video
 producers and distributors.
 



 --
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 Media Librarian
 American University Library
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Re: [Videolib] Cool reference question...your assistance?

2010-11-01 Thread Jackson, Sandra F.
The dialogue in Bringing up Baby is rather fabulous.

Sandra F. Jackson
Film Program Coordinator
Lumina Theater  Sharky's Box Office
Department of Campus Life
The University of North Carolina Wilmington
Phone 910.962.7971  Fax: 910-962-7438
jackso...@uncw.edu
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From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu 
[mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Jessica Rosner
Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 12:06 PM
To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu
Subject: Re: [Videolib] Cool reference question...your assistance?

Well there are number of amazing Fast talking films  with overlapping  fast 
dialogue, probably the most famous is HIS GIRL  FRIDAY, but film fans claim the 
all time fastest dialogue was in THE TRIAL OF VIVIENNE WARE (1932) . Many years 
later Altman did wonderful things with overlapping dialogue in CALIFORNIA SPLIT 
among others. Mel Brook's silent film has a lot of fun with the idea of a 
modern silent film with title cards and of course only one word of actual 
dialogue. Also credit where credit is do, THE SIXTH SENSE may make the most 
imaginative use of dialogue since the end forces you to reevaluate  all the 
previous dialogue. For non word films, THE LAST LAUGH. It has not title cards 
at all.
On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 11:43 AM, 
ghand...@library.berkeley.edumailto:ghand...@library.berkeley.edu wrote:
Hi all

An ex-Berkeley faculty friend has posed a very cool reference question...I
can use your help:

I'm looking for examples of films that do interesting
things with words, either written or spoken, or (at the other extreme) try
to do without words. I've got lots of silent films with title cards I can
use, but I am looking for others. Some that come to mind include The Man
with the Movie Camera, My Dinner with Andre, and Koyaanisqatsi. Any
further suggestions? I'm interested in credits, subtitles, words on sets,
dialogue, voiceover, etc.


I've come up with Bob Dylan's lyric cards for Subterranean Homesick Blues
in Don't Look Back; the meta credits from the movie Stranger Than
Fiction; Buster Keaton in Samuel Beckett's Film(1965); and--oddly
enough--two Steve Martin Films (LA Story's sentient freeway sign and C.D.
Bales' [i.e. Cyrano's] hilarious put-down speech: Let's start with...
Obvious: 'scuse me, is that your nose or did a bus park on your face? )

I think Adaptation might have some relevant stuff, but I can't quite
remember.

What do you say?

Gary Handman
Director
Media Resources Center
Moffitt Library
UC Berkeley

510-643-8566
ghand...@library.berkeley.edumailto:ghand...@library.berkeley.edu
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC

I have always preferred the reflection of life to life itself.
--Francois Truffaut


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Re: [Videolib] Cool reference question...your assistance?

2010-11-01 Thread Linda Duchin
The new film from Australia SAMSON  DELILAH about two teenagers living  in
an isolated Aboriginal community is virtually without dialogue


On 11/1/10 12:57 PM, Sandra F. Jackson jackso...@uncw.edu wrote:

 The dialogue in Bringing up Baby is rather fabulous.
  
 Sandra F. Jackson
 Film Program Coordinator
 Lumina Theater  Sharky's Box Office
 Department of Campus Life
 The University of North Carolina Wilmington
 Phone 910.962.7971  Fax: 910-962-7438
 jackso...@uncw.edu
 http://www.uncw.edu/lumina
 NOTICE: Emails sent and received in the course of university business are
 subject to the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. §132-1 et seq.) and
 may be released to the public unless an exception applies.
  
  
 
 From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu
 [mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Jessica Rosner
 Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 12:06 PM
 To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu
 Subject: Re: [Videolib] Cool reference question...your assistance?
  
 Well there are number of amazing Fast talking films  with overlapping  fast
 dialogue, probably the most famous is HIS GIRL  FRIDAY, but film fans claim
 the all time fastest dialogue was in THE TRIAL OF VIVIENNE WARE (1932) . Many
 years later Altman did wonderful things with overlapping dialogue in
 CALIFORNIA SPLIT among others. Mel Brook's silent film has a lot of fun with
 the idea of a modern silent film with title cards and of course only one word
 of actual dialogue. Also credit where credit is do, THE SIXTH SENSE may make
 the most imaginative use of dialogue since the end forces you to reevaluate
 all the previous dialogue. For non word films, THE LAST LAUGH. It has not
 title cards at all.
 
 On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 11:43 AM, ghand...@library.berkeley.edu wrote:
 Hi all
 
 An ex-Berkeley faculty friend has posed a very cool reference question...I
 can use your help:
 
 I'm looking for examples of films that do interesting
 things with words, either written or spoken, or (at the other extreme) try
 to do without words. I've got lots of silent films with title cards I can
 use, but I am looking for others. Some that come to mind include The Man
 with the Movie Camera, My Dinner with Andre, and Koyaanisqatsi. Any
 further suggestions? I'm interested in credits, subtitles, words on sets,
 dialogue, voiceover, etc.
 
 
 I've come up with Bob Dylan's lyric cards for Subterranean Homesick Blues
 in Don't Look Back; the meta credits from the movie Stranger Than
 Fiction; Buster Keaton in Samuel Beckett's Film(1965); and--oddly
 enough--two Steve Martin Films (LA Story's sentient freeway sign and C.D.
 Bales' [i.e. Cyrano's] hilarious put-down speech: Let's start with...
 Obvious: 'scuse me, is that your nose or did a bus park on your face? )
 
 I think Adaptation might have some relevant stuff, but I can't quite
 remember.
 
 What do you say?
 
 Gary Handman
 Director
 Media Resources Center
 Moffitt Library
 UC Berkeley
 
 510-643-8566
 ghand...@library.berkeley.edu
 http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC
 
 I have always preferred the reflection of life to life itself.
 --Francois Truffaut
 
 
 VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues
 relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control,
 preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and
 related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective
 working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication
 between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and
 distributors.
  
 
 
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Re: [Videolib] Cool reference question...your assistance?

2010-11-01 Thread Mike Tribby
Clockwork Orange. I couldn't hack through the Droogie talk in the book, but it 
works in the film.




Mike Tribby
Senior Cataloger
Quality Books Inc.
The Best of America's Independent Presses

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Re: [Videolib] Cool reference question...your assistance?

2010-11-01 Thread Pamela Bristah
The films of Jacques Tati?  
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Street, Wellesley MA 02481
phone 781-283-2076, fax 781-283-2869, pbris...@wellesley.edu


videolib@lists.berkeley.edu on Monday, November 01, 2010 at 1:01 PM -0400
wrote:
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 09:05:53 -0700


I'm looking for examples of films that do interesting
things with words, either written or spoken, or (at the other extreme) try
to do without words. I've got lots of silent films with title cards I can
use, but I am looking for others. Some that come to mind include The Man
with the Movie Camera, My Dinner with Andre, and Koyaanisqatsi. Any
further suggestions? I'm interested in credits, subtitles, words on sets,
dialogue, voiceover, etc.


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Re: [Videolib] Cool reference question...your assistance?

2010-11-01 Thread Anthony Anderson

The opening to Ken Russell's *The Devils*!  O:-)



*** 
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Social Studies and Arts  Humanities Librarian 
Von KleinSmid Library 
University of Southern California 
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0182 
(213) 740-1190  antho...@usc.edu 
Wind, regen, zon, of kou, 
Albert Cuyp ik hou van jou. 









On 11/1/2010 11:43 AM, ghand...@library.berkeley.edu wrote:


Hi all

An ex-Berkeley faculty friend has posed a very cool reference question...I
can use your help:

I'm looking for examples of films that do interesting
things with words, either written or spoken, or (at the other extreme) try
to do without words. I've got lots of silent films with title cards I can
use, but I am looking for others. Some that come to mind include The Man
with the Movie Camera, My Dinner with Andre, and Koyaanisqatsi. Any
further suggestions? I'm interested in credits, subtitles, words on sets,
dialogue, voiceover, etc.


I've come up with Bob Dylan's lyric cards for Subterranean Homesick Blues
in Don't Look Back; the meta credits from the movie Stranger Than
Fiction; Buster Keaton in Samuel Beckett's Film(1965); and--oddly
enough--two Steve Martin Films (LA Story's sentient freeway sign and C.D.
Bales' [i.e. Cyrano's] hilarious put-down speech: Let's start with...
Obvious: 'scuse me, is that your nose or did a bus park on your face? )

I think Adaptation might have some relevant stuff, but I can't quite
remember.

What do you say?

Gary Handman
Director
Media Resources Center
Moffitt Library
UC Berkeley

510-643-8566
ghand...@library.berkeley.edu
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC

I have always preferred the reflection of life to life itself.
--Francois Truffaut


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Re: [Videolib] Cool reference question...your assistance?

2010-11-01 Thread Williams, Alex O.
Watched them quite a while ago, so not sure how well they fit in here, but
first to mind were Chris Marker's Sans
Solielhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084628/
and Godard's Weekend http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062480/ and his Il
Nuovo Mondo segment of RoGoPaG http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056171/.

Alex
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Alex O. Williams
Institutional Sales

AFD / Typecast Films
Seattle, WA . USA
ph: 206.322.0882 x.202 | fx: 206.322.4586

arabfilm.com | typecastfilms.com


On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 8:43 AM, ghand...@library.berkeley.edu wrote:

 Hi all

 An ex-Berkeley faculty friend has posed a very cool reference question...I
 can use your help:

 I'm looking for examples of films that do interesting
 things with words, either written or spoken, or (at the other extreme) try
 to do without words. I've got lots of silent films with title cards I can
 use, but I am looking for others. Some that come to mind include The Man
 with the Movie Camera, My Dinner with Andre, and Koyaanisqatsi. Any
 further suggestions? I'm interested in credits, subtitles, words on sets,
 dialogue, voiceover, etc.


 I've come up with Bob Dylan's lyric cards for Subterranean Homesick Blues
 in Don't Look Back; the meta credits from the movie Stranger Than
 Fiction; Buster Keaton in Samuel Beckett's Film(1965); and--oddly
 enough--two Steve Martin Films (LA Story's sentient freeway sign and C.D.
 Bales' [i.e. Cyrano's] hilarious put-down speech: Let's start with...
 Obvious: 'scuse me, is that your nose or did a bus park on your face? )

 I think Adaptation might have some relevant stuff, but I can't quite
 remember.

 What do you say?

 Gary Handman
 Director
 Media Resources Center
 Moffitt Library
 UC Berkeley

 510-643-8566
 ghand...@library.berkeley.edu
 http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC

 I have always preferred the reflection of life to life itself.
 --Francois Truffaut


 VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues
 relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control,
 preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and
 related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective
 working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication
 between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and
 distributors.

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Re: [Videolib] Cool reference question...your assistance?

2010-11-01 Thread Oksana Dykyj
I vote for Peter Rose's SECONDARY CURRENTS

The title credits describe the film as a film noir since it pushes 
structuralist boundaries as a work that is imageless, that is to say 
on a black screen, with white subtitles translating  the fake foreign 
language gibberish of the unseen voice-over narrator.

I tend to call it a black comedy. I love this film and its emphasis 
on the sometimes exceedingly funny translations or lack thereof  in 
watching films because we often spend more time reading the subtitles 
than actually seeing what's on the screen.

I remember watching a print of a Russian film with English subtitles 
(the film's title evades me at the moment, but this was over 30 years 
ago) and the Russian characters were cursing up a storm evoking what 
could be done with one's mother etc, while the subtitle read, You 
scoundrel. I was the only one laughing out loud during the screening.

Oksana

Oksana Dykyj
Concordia University
Montreal, Canada

At 11:43 AM 01/11/2010, you wrote:
Hi all

An ex-Berkeley faculty friend has posed a very cool reference question...I
can use your help:

I'm looking for examples of films that do interesting
things with words, either written or spoken, or (at the other extreme) try
to do without words. I've got lots of silent films with title cards I can
use, but I am looking for others. Some that come to mind include The Man
with the Movie Camera, My Dinner with Andre, and Koyaanisqatsi. Any
further suggestions? I'm interested in credits, subtitles, words on sets,
dialogue, voiceover, etc.


I've come up with Bob Dylan's lyric cards for Subterranean Homesick Blues
in Don't Look Back; the meta credits from the movie Stranger Than
Fiction; Buster Keaton in Samuel Beckett's Film(1965); and--oddly
enough--two Steve Martin Films (LA Story's sentient freeway sign and C.D.
Bales' [i.e. Cyrano's] hilarious put-down speech: Let's start with...
Obvious: 'scuse me, is that your nose or did a bus park on your face? )

I think Adaptation might have some relevant stuff, but I can't quite
remember.

What do you say?

Gary Handman
Director
Media Resources Center
Moffitt Library
UC Berkeley

510-643-8566
ghand...@library.berkeley.edu
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC

I have always preferred the reflection of life to life itself.
--Francois Truffaut


VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of 
issues relating to the selection, evaluation, 
acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current 
and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It 
is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for 
video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between 
libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.



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Re: [Videolib] Cool reference question...your assistance?

2010-11-01 Thread Haller, Dorcas W.
Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man.

Dusty Haller

Dorcas Haller
Professor/Librarian/Department Chair
Library
Community College of Rhode Island
1 Hilton Street, Providence, RI 02905
phone: 401-455-6085  fax: 401-455-6087
-LOOK IT UP!--



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[mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of 
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Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 11:43 AM
To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu
Subject: [Videolib] Cool reference question...your assistance?

Hi all

An ex-Berkeley faculty friend has posed a very cool reference question...I
can use your help:

I'm looking for examples of films that do interesting
things with words, either written or spoken, or (at the other extreme) try
to do without words. I've got lots of silent films with title cards I can
use, but I am looking for others. Some that come to mind include The Man
with the Movie Camera, My Dinner with Andre, and Koyaanisqatsi. Any
further suggestions? I'm interested in credits, subtitles, words on sets,
dialogue, voiceover, etc.


I've come up with Bob Dylan's lyric cards for Subterranean Homesick Blues
in Don't Look Back; the meta credits from the movie Stranger Than
Fiction; Buster Keaton in Samuel Beckett's Film(1965); and--oddly
enough--two Steve Martin Films (LA Story's sentient freeway sign and C.D.
Bales' [i.e. Cyrano's] hilarious put-down speech: Let's start with...
Obvious: 'scuse me, is that your nose or did a bus park on your face? )

I think Adaptation might have some relevant stuff, but I can't quite
remember.

What do you say?

Gary Handman
Director
Media Resources Center
Moffitt Library
UC Berkeley

510-643-8566
ghand...@library.berkeley.edu
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC

I have always preferred the reflection of life to life itself.
--Francois Truffaut


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between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and 
distributors.

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Re: [Videolib] Cool reference question...your assistance?

2010-11-01 Thread Haller, Dorcas W.
Les Parapluies de Cherbourg. Sung dialogue.

Dusty Haller

Dorcas Haller
Professor/Librarian/Department Chair
Library
Community College of Rhode Island
1 Hilton Street, Providence, RI 02905
phone: 401-455-6085  fax: 401-455-6087
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From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu 
[mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of 
ghand...@library.berkeley.edu
Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 11:43 AM
To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu
Subject: [Videolib] Cool reference question...your assistance?

Hi all

An ex-Berkeley faculty friend has posed a very cool reference question...I
can use your help:

I'm looking for examples of films that do interesting
things with words, either written or spoken, or (at the other extreme) try
to do without words. I've got lots of silent films with title cards I can
use, but I am looking for others. Some that come to mind include The Man
with the Movie Camera, My Dinner with Andre, and Koyaanisqatsi. Any
further suggestions? I'm interested in credits, subtitles, words on sets,
dialogue, voiceover, etc.


I've come up with Bob Dylan's lyric cards for Subterranean Homesick Blues
in Don't Look Back; the meta credits from the movie Stranger Than
Fiction; Buster Keaton in Samuel Beckett's Film(1965); and--oddly
enough--two Steve Martin Films (LA Story's sentient freeway sign and C.D.
Bales' [i.e. Cyrano's] hilarious put-down speech: Let's start with...
Obvious: 'scuse me, is that your nose or did a bus park on your face? )

I think Adaptation might have some relevant stuff, but I can't quite
remember.

What do you say?

Gary Handman
Director
Media Resources Center
Moffitt Library
UC Berkeley

510-643-8566
ghand...@library.berkeley.edu
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC

I have always preferred the reflection of life to life itself.
--Francois Truffaut


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preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and 
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between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and 
distributors.

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Re: [Videolib] Cool reference question...your assistance?

2010-11-01 Thread Haller, Dorcas W.
Mel Gibson's Passion of the Christ -- 1st century Aramaic.

Brad Pitt's character in Guy Ritchie's Snatch.

Dusty Haller

Dorcas Haller
Professor/Librarian/Department Chair
Library
Community College of Rhode Island
1 Hilton Street, Providence, RI 02905
phone: 401-455-6085  fax: 401-455-6087
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From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu 
[mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of 
ghand...@library.berkeley.edu
Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 11:43 AM
To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu
Subject: [Videolib] Cool reference question...your assistance?

Hi all

An ex-Berkeley faculty friend has posed a very cool reference question...I
can use your help:

I'm looking for examples of films that do interesting
things with words, either written or spoken, or (at the other extreme) try
to do without words. I've got lots of silent films with title cards I can
use, but I am looking for others. Some that come to mind include The Man
with the Movie Camera, My Dinner with Andre, and Koyaanisqatsi. Any
further suggestions? I'm interested in credits, subtitles, words on sets,
dialogue, voiceover, etc.


I've come up with Bob Dylan's lyric cards for Subterranean Homesick Blues
in Don't Look Back; the meta credits from the movie Stranger Than
Fiction; Buster Keaton in Samuel Beckett's Film(1965); and--oddly
enough--two Steve Martin Films (LA Story's sentient freeway sign and C.D.
Bales' [i.e. Cyrano's] hilarious put-down speech: Let's start with...
Obvious: 'scuse me, is that your nose or did a bus park on your face? )

I think Adaptation might have some relevant stuff, but I can't quite
remember.

What do you say?

Gary Handman
Director
Media Resources Center
Moffitt Library
UC Berkeley

510-643-8566
ghand...@library.berkeley.edu
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC

I have always preferred the reflection of life to life itself.
--Francois Truffaut


VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues 
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distributors.

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Re: [Videolib] Cool reference question...your assistance?

2010-11-01 Thread Kerbel, Michael
Spoken instead of printed credits:
-- Truffaut's Fahrenheit 451 (because in the film's world reading is illegal)
-- Orson Welles' Magnificent Ambersons (also The Trial?)
-- Altman's Mash

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From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu 
[mailto:videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of 
ghand...@library.berkeley.edu
Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 11:43 AM
To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu
Subject: [Videolib] Cool reference question...your assistance?

Hi all

An ex-Berkeley faculty friend has posed a very cool reference question...I
can use your help:

I'm looking for examples of films that do interesting
things with words, either written or spoken, or (at the other extreme) try
to do without words. I've got lots of silent films with title cards I can
use, but I am looking for others. Some that come to mind include The Man
with the Movie Camera, My Dinner with Andre, and Koyaanisqatsi. Any
further suggestions? I'm interested in credits, subtitles, words on sets,
dialogue, voiceover, etc.


I've come up with Bob Dylan's lyric cards for Subterranean Homesick Blues
in Don't Look Back; the meta credits from the movie Stranger Than
Fiction; Buster Keaton in Samuel Beckett's Film(1965); and--oddly
enough--two Steve Martin Films (LA Story's sentient freeway sign and C.D.
Bales' [i.e. Cyrano's] hilarious put-down speech: Let's start with...
Obvious: 'scuse me, is that your nose or did a bus park on your face? )

I think Adaptation might have some relevant stuff, but I can't quite
remember.

What do you say?

Gary Handman
Director
Media Resources Center
Moffitt Library
UC Berkeley

510-643-8566
ghand...@library.berkeley.edu
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC

I have always preferred the reflection of life to life itself.
--Francois Truffaut


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preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and 
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between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and 
distributors.

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Re: [Videolib] Cool reference question...your assistance?

2010-11-01 Thread bloo...@tufl.info
I love Le Samourai for its spare dialog, and all that it is used to tell.
 
Also, I just caught a little of the BBC Sherlock series on PBS the other night. 
I liked the way that, as Holmes examines a scene, text appears on screen sharing
his insights with viewers, but keeping them from other characters.  I'll be
ordering that for my library.
 
Brian Looker
 



 On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 11:43 AM, ghand...@library.berkeley.edu wrote:

  Hi all
 
  An ex-Berkeley faculty friend has posed a very cool reference question...I
  can use your help:
 
  I'm looking for examples of films that do interesting
  things with words, either written or spoken, or (at the other extreme) try
  to do without words. I've got lots of silent films with title cards I can
  use, but I am looking for others. Some that come to mind include The Man
  with the Movie Camera, My Dinner with Andre, and Koyaanisqatsi. Any
  further suggestions? I'm interested in credits, subtitles, words on sets,
  dialogue, voiceover, etc.
 
 
  I've come up with Bob Dylan's lyric cards for Subterranean Homesick Blues
  in Don't Look Back; the meta credits from the movie Stranger Than
  Fiction; Buster Keaton in Samuel Beckett's Film(1965); and--oddly
  enough--two Steve Martin Films (LA Story's sentient freeway sign and C.D.
  Bales' [i.e. Cyrano's] hilarious put-down speech: Let's start with...
  Obvious: 'scuse me, is that your nose or did a bus park on your face? )
 
  I think Adaptation might have some relevant stuff, but I can't quite
  remember.
 
  What do you say?
 
  Gary Handman
  Director
  Media Resources Center
  Moffitt Library
  UC Berkeley
 
  510-643-8566
  ghand...@library.berkeley.edu
  http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC
 
  I have always preferred the reflection of life to life itself.
  --Francois Truffaut
 
 
  VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues
  relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control,
  preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and
  related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective
  working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication
  between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and
  distributors.
 


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Re: [Videolib] Cool reference question...your assistance?

2010-11-01 Thread David Folmar
I am not sure this is what your looking for but Wim Wenders Kings of the
Road:In the course of Time has no dialog in the first two hours, it is four
hours long.  When the characters finally do speak it totally blows you away
and makes what they have to say seem so important and profound.

-David Folmar

On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 11:43 AM, ghand...@library.berkeley.edu wrote:

 Hi all

 An ex-Berkeley faculty friend has posed a very cool reference question...I
 can use your help:

 I'm looking for examples of films that do interesting
 things with words, either written or spoken, or (at the other extreme) try
 to do without words. I've got lots of silent films with title cards I can
 use, but I am looking for others. Some that come to mind include The Man
 with the Movie Camera, My Dinner with Andre, and Koyaanisqatsi. Any
 further suggestions? I'm interested in credits, subtitles, words on sets,
 dialogue, voiceover, etc.


 I've come up with Bob Dylan's lyric cards for Subterranean Homesick Blues
 in Don't Look Back; the meta credits from the movie Stranger Than
 Fiction; Buster Keaton in Samuel Beckett's Film(1965); and--oddly
 enough--two Steve Martin Films (LA Story's sentient freeway sign and C.D.
 Bales' [i.e. Cyrano's] hilarious put-down speech: Let's start with...
 Obvious: 'scuse me, is that your nose or did a bus park on your face? )

 I think Adaptation might have some relevant stuff, but I can't quite
 remember.

 What do you say?

 Gary Handman
 Director
 Media Resources Center
 Moffitt Library
 UC Berkeley

 510-643-8566
 ghand...@library.berkeley.edu
 http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC

 I have always preferred the reflection of life to life itself.
 --Francois Truffaut


 VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues
 relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control,
 preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and
 related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective
 working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication
 between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and
 distributors.

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