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Good call, Rob, on the shot you posted above and the one following. Lean very often in this film brackets his wide shots with close-ups and medium shots, providing just the right amount of counterpoint so as to give the wider shots real visual impact. (If it's hard for me to neglect mention of...

Continued from Pg 1. Oliver Twist Dir.: David Lean D.P.: Guy Green Camera Operator: Oswald Morris Production Designer: John Bryan Cast Alec Guinness: Fagin Robert Newton: Bill Sikes Kay Walsh: Nancy Francis L. Sullivan: Mr. Bumble, the Beadle Mary Clare: Mrs. Corney, the Matron...

We are presently experiencing technical difficulties. :b Please be patient with us, we'll get this show on the road eventually.

Okay, gang, Oliver Twist is coming tonight. I just got to get home to my image upload software and saved work to make a few last minute tweaks. Hope your projector's back working, Rob. :) As before, stay tuned.

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Okay, gang, this thread has been dormant for awhile, and I'm partly to blame. I've been spending too much time doing other things and not enough getting my treatise ready. But I've got almost half of my screencap commentary done, so you should be seeing my treatise on Oliver Twist posted pretty...

I don't dislike the film, merely the direction it took with Richard's abduction and murder. While I can't say I found the rest of it a masterpiece, it is more than a solidly interesting portrait of five characters and their relationship with eachother. It is perhaps a fault of mine that I tend...

[SIZE=2]Sorry I haven't responded sooner, John. My computer crashed earlier this week and I have been spending most of the time since restoring my backed up files and settings (thank heaven for external harddrives).

Courtesy of Netflix, I screened this movie a few nights ago. Although I don't believe I have much insight to offer re the cinematography, which has already been neatly pointed up by John, I am rather perplexed as to why the filmmakers felt the need for the plot turn 2/3 of the way into the...

In the Bedroom ought to be arriving from Netflix any day now. In the meantime, I just wanted to point out that exclusion is central to much of the cinematography/editing in Oliver Twist; particularly in a scene which I will have time for only cursory mention of in my treatise, but which is...

PatrickL’s treatise on Klute, and the corresponding quotes by distinguished D.P. Gordon Willis, elucidates very neatly the unique, defining art of the expressive cinematographer; i.e., his ability to crystallize and expand upon the conceptual nucleus of a film’s psychological and emotional...