tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3296479421292377391.post1418374170351903368..comments2024-03-15T04:08:16.172-04:00Comments on Only the Cinema: Three Celia Rowlson-Hall shorts, 2010-2011Ed Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18014222247676090467noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3296479421292377391.post-22058463896924336662012-02-17T20:35:09.031-05:002012-02-17T20:35:09.031-05:00Thanks, Joel, I hope you report back if you watch ...Thanks, Joel, I hope you report back if you watch some of these. I agree with you that this is an area ripe for exploration, and I wish I knew how to more consistently find stuff like this. As is, I only happened to stumble across Rowlson-Hall via Jeremy's interview with her, and I've recently found some other young experimental directors with online presences (like <a href="http://Ed Howardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18014222247676090467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3296479421292377391.post-49266138044179465372012-02-17T20:04:06.589-05:002012-02-17T20:04:06.589-05:00Great that you're covering stuff like this (co...Great that you're covering stuff like this (contemporary films by young filmmakers posting online) as it's a direction I'm fascinated in, and which so far has been underexplored and underexploited, I think. I will check these out in the next few days; "Be My Baby," ever since its use by Scorsese in Mean Streets (maybe his strongest musical moment among many) has been one of Joel Bockohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11238338958380683893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3296479421292377391.post-77680604854284107002012-02-16T13:25:40.604-05:002012-02-16T13:25:40.604-05:00I like your interpretation ;))I like your interpretation ;))parlonsfilmshttp://parlonsfilms.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3296479421292377391.post-53540028524015952082012-02-15T20:56:13.798-05:002012-02-15T20:56:13.798-05:00Colin, I really like that interpretation of Pinata...Colin, I really like that interpretation of <i>Pinata</i>. I saw in terms of death and mourning, but it can also be thought of as being about passivity and aggression, about abuse. It's a quite dark and suggestive film, and its ambiguity just makes it more compelling because we can't be sure what the relationship between the two women is or was, just that there's something sad and/or Ed Howardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18014222247676090467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3296479421292377391.post-33403145038007489162012-02-15T16:31:47.935-05:002012-02-15T16:31:47.935-05:00Thanks to yourself and Jeremy Richey for bringing ...Thanks to yourself and Jeremy Richey for bringing these films to my attention! I liked Prom Night a lot but Pinata even more - I liked the way that the meanings we place on the characters in both of those films keep fluidly changing. <br /><br />In Pinata especially I liked that final sequence which to me suggested a quite dark idea that people use other people and get upset when they behave colinr0380http://www.criterionforum.org/forumnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3296479421292377391.post-39483480696025900982012-02-15T10:15:11.016-05:002012-02-15T10:15:11.016-05:00Thanks, Sam, I'm glad you checked these shorts...Thanks, Sam, I'm glad you checked these shorts out. I love "Be My Baby" too, such a great pop song, like all the Ronettes stuff, and it's a perfect accompaniment to <i>Prom Night</i>. That short in particular just blew me away, it's simultaneously so much fun and so suggestive in its deeper themes and ideas.<br /><br />She's working on a feature now and I really look Ed Howardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18014222247676090467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3296479421292377391.post-27698706426526587682012-02-15T10:03:11.203-05:002012-02-15T10:03:11.203-05:00"Rowlson-Hall is delving subtly into the many..."Rowlson-Hall is delving subtly into the many different meanings of the prom in American culture: as a locus of sexuality, as a stage for enactments of gender roles, as a repository for memories of adolescence, as a last ritual of the teen years before the transition into adulthood. The prom is so loaded with potential meanings, and Rowlson-Hall's exploration of this event is ambiguous Sam Julianonoreply@blogger.com