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

2010-11-02 Thread Elizabeth Stanley
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

[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

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

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

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

2010-11-01 Thread Kim Crowley
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Re: [Videolib] Cool reference question...your assistance?

2010-11-01 Thread Nancy E. Friedland
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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

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

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

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

2010-11-01 Thread Jackson, Sandra F.
] 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

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

2010-11-01 Thread Linda Duchin
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

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 mailto:mike.tri...@quality-books.com VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion

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

2010-11-01 Thread Pamela Bristah
The films of Jacques Tati? __ Pamela Bristah, Collections Librarian, Wellesley College, 106 Central 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

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

2010-11-01 Thread Anthony Anderson
The opening to Ken Russell's *The Devils*! O:-) *** Anthony E. Anderson 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

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/.

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

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

2010-11-01 Thread Haller, Dorcas W.
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Re: [Videolib] Cool reference question...your assistance?

2010-11-01 Thread Haller, Dorcas W.
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Re: [Videolib] Cool reference question...your assistance?

2010-11-01 Thread Haller, Dorcas W.
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

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

2010-11-01 Thread Kerbel, Michael
...@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

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

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