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04-01-2008, 03:59 AM
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Jules Dassin passes away at 96!
The director of Rififi, Topkapi, Night and the City (with Richard Widmark as the lead), Thieves Highway and The Naked City has passed away.
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04-01-2008, 07:04 PM
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Re: Jules Dassin was 96
Sorry to hear he's gone, but he did have a good, long life and left us with some fine films. R.I.P.
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04-02-2008, 01:08 PM
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Jules Dassin passes away at 96
Here is a nice story from the NYT about this underrated director that never got the chance to be recognized as one of the greatest at his craft. May he R.I.P.
Jules Dassin, Filmmaker on Blacklist, Dies at 96 - New York Times
G.W. McLintock: Camille, you're on your own.
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04-03-2008, 12:45 AM
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Re: Jules Dassin passes away at 96!
Rififi is simply one of the greatest films of all-time, and certainly unmatched in its genre. The 25-minute, all-but-silent heist sequence is more heart-pounding than any smash cut modern action sequence you can name.
If Dassin had made no other great films, I would mourn his passing for Rififi alone. That we were also given The Naked City, Topkapi, Never on Sunday and other fine films is icing.
I'm happy he led such a long life. I hope those who've never seen Rififi might seek it out in his honor.
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04-03-2008, 04:50 PM
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Re: Jules Dassin passes away at 96!
I have heard so much about Rififi that I just bought this.
Update : did not know that R1 is a Criterion SE even better
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04-03-2008, 08:15 PM
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GREAT MOMENTS OF SILENCE - Jules Dassin R.I.P.
I'd like to commemorate the recently deceased Mr. Dassin with a thread celebrating great sequences of silence/near silence which have been so effective in classic films. Extended silence almost never happens in film anymore - overwritten scores and bombastic sound effects are the rule of the day - but I can think of one within the past decade or so:
CONTACT. The incredible pull-back from the planet earth that winds up full circle within the pupil of young actress Jena Malone, a neatly silent sequence at the very start of the film that lasts several minutes. pretty ballsy these days, no? But oh, how effective.
Come to think of it, ALIEN had a incredibly (almost unbearably) tense sequence that had only the most subtle ambient sounds and the occasional "Jonesy... here kitty..." from Harry Dean Stanton as he walks for about five minutes through the deeper innards of the Nostromo searching for a rogue cat. There is no music to telegraph anything, or to Mickey Mouse what is happening onscreen. I've seen nothing like it since. Kudos to Ridley Scott. Pretty unnerving. Why has Hollywood forgotten how effective this was?
RIFIFI - The great Dassin film that started me on this thread contains a robbery sequence of something like fifteen minutes with nary a sound and no dialog or music at all. The producer of the film tried to discourage the director from doing this, and composer Georges Auric tried to dissuade him as well, until he was shown the sequence with and without the music he'd written for this sequence. In the end, he agreed with Dassin - leave it silent. Can you imagine it any other way?
What are your examples?
NOTE: This was originally posted as a separate thread in order to encourage responses (thus my references to two non-Dassin films). It has been incorporated into the current thread by the mods and so now seems pretty lame as a place for people to add examples of silence used well in sound movies, which was really the intent. Oh, well. I'll be more careful about my header next time.
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04-03-2008, 09:59 PM
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Re: Jules Dassin passes away at 96!
Jules Dassin was one of many people whose lives were jerked around by the infamous Blacklist.
He speaks about this in an interview with Terry Gross on NPR's Fresh Air.
You can listen to this at their archives.
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