http://www.rylandwalkerknight.com Ryland Walker Knight Tue, 17 Apr 2012 10:21:34 +0000 http://www.rylandwalkerknight.com en http://rylandwalkerknight.com/MUBI-Notebook http://rylandwalkerknight.com/following/rylandwalkerknight.com/MUBI-Notebook Tue, 17 Apr 2012 10:21:34 +0000 Ryland Walker Knight 3222462 <img src="http://payload46.cargocollective.com/1/7/227863/3222462/formers-40.jpg" width="670" height="285" width_o="718" height_o="305" src_o="http://payload46.cargocollective.com/1/7/227863/3222462/formers-40_o.jpg" data-mid="17131233" border="0" align="left"/> During the fall of 2008, Danny Kasman asked me to join him in establishing a new blog of smart film writers. I was a fan of Danny's work, and flattered by the invitation, so I was excited to write for him; I jumped in as soon as I could. Since then my contributions have slowed, but we did a lot of great work at Cannes in 2011 and we continue to bounce ideas off one another. You can read more about the blog here. <img src="http://payload46.cargocollective.com/1/7/227863/3222462/2000s-ryland-walker-knight.jpg" width="670" height="376" width_o="718" height_o="403" src_o="http://payload46.cargocollective.com/1/7/227863/3222462/2000s-ryland-walker-knight_o.jpg" data-mid="16504181" border="0" align="left"/> For my author tag, click here. Below you can find a complete list of my contributions to the blog, in reverse chronology, as some posts were joint efforts or, more simply, not attributed to me in the byline. At the bottom of the page is my contribution to 2011's annual fantasy double bill collection. The After-Image, an essay about the recent films by Nathaniel Dorsky, seeing, and images in general 2011 Fantasy Double Bill, The City Below and World on a Wire A Cluster of Ideas on Contagion, a conversation with Danny Kasman Cannes Questionnaires, a series of video interviews from Cannes 2011 Out Of The Past: Five Old Flames My contribution to the 2010 Poll of fantasy Double Bills. I wrote about Bell, Book & Candle and Wild Grass Video Sundays: Twin Trailers to the Death La Varda, a paean to Agnès Varda Nothing's Perfect: Where the Wild Things Are and Fantastic Mr. Fox Peeking around corners: writing A Letter to Uncle Boonmee with Joe Images of the Decade, a project with Danny Kasman, in two parts: one for images and one for their captions. The Notebook's 2nd Annual Writers Poll: Fantasy Double Features of 2009; mine is in Part I. Jeanne Dielman: Solitude's a fortress? Bay Area: A Flare for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Video Sundays (10.11.09), pitting a selection from Body Snatchers against, or after, a clip from The Addiction (both Abel Ferrara; 93, 95) F.W. Murnau's Sunrise: Harbor daze and drunk on you Now in theatres: Inglourious Basterds (Tarantino, USA) Links for the Day: Holiday in his eye, about Cary Grant Frontiers of Extinction: A Conversation about Michael Mann's Public Enemies, with Daniel Kasman and Ignatiy Vishnevetsky. Province of the Wretched, Part II: Shuttered Province of the Wretched, Part I: Lockdown A glance at Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet’s Chronik der Anna Magdalena Bach Dreyer Diary #7: Love One Another + Vampyr Dreyer Diary #6: Gertrud Dreyer Diary #5: Master of the House Dreyer Diary #4: Glomdale Dreyer Diary #3: Ordet Dreyer Diary #2: Wrath Dreyer Diary #1: Joan 35 rhums, on the night shift. Interview with Film Comment Editor Gavin Smith, with Daniel Kasman and Andrew Grant. Your forking: Birdsong and Waiting for Sancho Breadlines and Champagne! Man's Castle (1933, Borzage) Douglas Sirk's Magnificent Obsession: We Poor Devils The Notebook's First Annual Writers' Poll: Ryland Walker Knight (Wrangle yourself and laugh) Samuel Fuller's White Dog: Natural is not in it. An amber kaleidoscope: Lola Montes (Ophüls, 1955) Now on DVD: Le Doulos (Melville, France, 1962), brutal and deliberate At the cinematheque: Xiao Wu (Jia Zhangke, China, 1997) <img src="http://payload46.cargocollective.com/1/7/227863/3222462/rwk-2012dbls-mubi.jpg" width="650" height="950" width_o="650" height_o="950" src_o="http://payload46.cargocollective.com/1/7/227863/3222462/rwk-2012dbls-mubi_o.jpg" data-mid="17131175" border="0" align="left"/> During the fall of 2008, Danny Kasman asked me to join him in establishing a new blog of smart film writers. I was a fan of Danny's work, and flattered by the... http://rylandwalkerknight.com/CANNES-FOR-CARGO http://rylandwalkerknight.com/following/rylandwalkerknight.com/CANNES-FOR-CARGO Fri, 13 Apr 2012 10:24:23 +0000 Ryland Walker Knight 3198290 In 2011, I went to Cannes for the first time as an acredited journalist. Among other things, I blogged for CARGO, the Berlin-based film magazine run by Ekkehard Knörer, Bert Rabhandl and Simon Rothöhler. <img src="http://payload44.cargocollective.com/1/7/227863/3198290/cargo-cannes.jpg" width="670" height="679" width_o="1010" height_o="1024" src_o="http://payload44.cargocollective.com/1/7/227863/3198290/cargo-cannes_o.jpg" data-mid="16369342" border="0" align="left"/> In 2011, I went to Cannes for the first time as an acredited journalist. Among other things, I blogged for CARGO, the Berlin-based film magazine run by Ekkehard... http://rylandwalkerknight.com/RYKNIGHT-tumblr http://rylandwalkerknight.com/following/rylandwalkerknight.com/RYKNIGHT-tumblr Thu, 12 Apr 2012 18:43:22 +0000 Ryland Walker Knight 3194746 <img src="http://payload44.cargocollective.com/1/7/227863/3194746/tumblr-grab.jpg" width="670" height="365" width_o="815" height_o="444" src_o="http://payload44.cargocollective.com/1/7/227863/3194746/tumblr-grab_o.jpg" data-mid="16350395" border="0" align="left"/> My tumblr is like my scrapbook, my mnemonic aid for ideas for later. Follow if you like infrequent enthusiasms for all kinds of things, but mainly pretty images and rap music. My tumblr is like my scrapbook, my mnemonic aid for ideas for later. Follow if you like infrequent enthusiasms for all kinds of things, but mainly pretty images... http://rylandwalkerknight.com/The-Pile-Up-of-Days http://rylandwalkerknight.com/following/rylandwalkerknight.com/The-Pile-Up-of-Days Thu, 12 Apr 2012 16:31:38 +0000 Ryland Walker Knight 3193937 An essay I wrote for N1FR, n+1's Film Review, about my first experience in Cannes. You can buy a copy on the N+1 site, if you like to read hard copies of first rate writing (click if you'd like more reasons). <img src="http://payload44.cargocollective.com/1/7/227863/3193937/nifr-column.jpg" width="648" height="958" width_o="648" height_o="958" src_o="http://payload44.cargocollective.com/1/7/227863/3193937/nifr-column_o.jpg" data-mid="16345845" border="0" align="left"/> An essay I wrote for N1FR, n+1's Film Review, about my first experience in Cannes. You can buy a copy on the N+1 site, if you like to read hard copies of first rate... http://rylandwalkerknight.com/Found-Facts-A-touching-image http://rylandwalkerknight.com/following/rylandwalkerknight.com/Found-Facts-A-touching-image Thu, 12 Apr 2012 16:20:13 +0000 Ryland Walker Knight 3193858 Part of the Found Facts series I made in 2008, each one a sort of chopped and screwed vision of a month, or an event. Part of the Found Facts series I made in 2008, each one a sort of chopped and screwed vision of a month, or an event. http://rylandwalkerknight.com/Found-Facts-September-08 http://rylandwalkerknight.com/following/rylandwalkerknight.com/Found-Facts-September-08 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 16:09:45 +0000 Ryland Walker Knight 3193795 Part of the Found Facts series I made in 2008, each one a sort of chopped and screwed vision of a month, or an event. Part of the Found Facts series I made in 2008, each one a sort of chopped and screwed vision of a month, or an event. http://rylandwalkerknight.com/Patience-Pays-excerpt http://rylandwalkerknight.com/following/rylandwalkerknight.com/Patience-Pays-excerpt Thu, 12 Apr 2012 15:45:54 +0000 Ryland Walker Knight 3193613 An excerpt from a longer film, though still short, about my dog, Charlie. An excerpt from a longer film, though still short, about my dog, Charlie. http://rylandwalkerknight.com/CHEZ-MOCKING-SEAGULL http://rylandwalkerknight.com/following/rylandwalkerknight.com/CHEZ-MOCKING-SEAGULL Thu, 12 Apr 2012 15:12:07 +0000 Ryland Walker Knight 3193275 For Danny and Adrian For Danny and Adrian http://rylandwalkerknight.com/IMAGES-1 http://rylandwalkerknight.com/following/rylandwalkerknight.com/IMAGES-1 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:59:18 +0000 Ryland Walker Knight 3193117 <img src="http://payload44.cargocollective.com/1/7/227863/3193117/flickr-windows-set.jpg" width="670" height="520" width_o="699" height_o="543" src_o="http://payload44.cargocollective.com/1/7/227863/3193117/flickr-windows-set_o.jpg" data-mid="16341587" border="0" align="left"/> First of all, I should like to cop to the fact that I am obsessed with shooting stills of windows because I love the frame-within-a-frame trope and I love light. Click here to see all the sets of images that I have uploaded to flickr. Each set tells a different story, but some are simply collections for reference (for me), but the two I'm perhaps most proud of are from Summer 2011: one traces my path through Europe in a series of self-made postcards; the other is from my time on a farm, named David's Folly Farm, where I shot a small documentary about my friend Greg and his life there as Farm Manager. <img src="http://payload44.cargocollective.com/1/7/227863/3193117/IMG_1411x1000.jpg" width="670" height="447" width_o="1000" height_o="667" src_o="http://payload44.cargocollective.com/1/7/227863/3193117/IMG_1411x1000_o.jpg" data-mid="16369125" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload44.cargocollective.com/1/7/227863/3193117/5726437896_b6ed15bc11_b.jpg" width="670" height="447" width_o="1024" height_o="683" src_o="http://payload44.cargocollective.com/1/7/227863/3193117/5726437896_b6ed15bc11_b_o.jpg" data-mid="16352356" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload44.cargocollective.com/1/7/227863/3193117/5994489848_714df2bc58_b.jpg" width="670" height="447" width_o="1024" height_o="683" src_o="http://payload44.cargocollective.com/1/7/227863/3193117/5994489848_714df2bc58_b_o.jpg" data-mid="16352359" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload44.cargocollective.com/1/7/227863/3193117/IMG_1990_1000.jpg" width="670" height="447" width_o="1000" height_o="667" src_o="http://payload44.cargocollective.com/1/7/227863/3193117/IMG_1990_1000_o.jpg" data-mid="16352060" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload44.cargocollective.com/1/7/227863/3193117/6381287785_c1d9377e8c_b.jpg" width="670" height="447" width_o="1024" height_o="683" src_o="http://payload44.cargocollective.com/1/7/227863/3193117/6381287785_c1d9377e8c_b_o.jpg" data-mid="16352171" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload44.cargocollective.com/1/7/227863/3193117/IMG_1392_TILEWALL.jpg" width="670" height="447" width_o="1000" height_o="667" src_o="http://payload44.cargocollective.com/1/7/227863/3193117/IMG_1392_TILEWALL_o.jpg" data-mid="16352062" border="0" align="left"/> First of all, I should like to cop to the fact that I am obsessed with shooting stills of windows because I love the frame-within-a-frame trope and I love light. ... http://rylandwalkerknight.com/VINYL-IS-HEAVY http://rylandwalkerknight.com/following/rylandwalkerknight.com/VINYL-IS-HEAVY Thu, 12 Apr 2012 12:50:24 +0000 Ryland Walker Knight 3192194 <img src="http://payload44.cargocollective.com/1/7/227863/3192194/vinyl.blog.header.jpg" width="670" height="374" width_o="713" height_o="398" src_o="http://payload44.cargocollective.com/1/7/227863/3192194/vinyl.blog.header_o.jpg" data-mid="16337361" border="0" align="left"/> My blogspot blog, which has a lot of different kinds of writing and images. Some series I'm proud of: A Conjunction of Quotations, Convergences, Alain à la recherche, BANG BANG, The Lynch Mob, SFIFF54 coverage and my Cannes 2011 coverage. Hell, we even had a podcast for a while. As my life has shifted away from long form compositions and more stray thoughts in words (at least for now), I've begun to use my tumblr as my scrapbook, my mnemonic aid for ideas for later. My blogspot blog, which has a lot of different kinds of writing and images. Some series I'm proud of: A Conjunction of Quotations, Convergences, Alain à la...