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. >
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.
