Of course not a CIDU as a whole. But are any of the specific references or rationales in need of explanation?
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OK, Bigelow and Del Toro are sort of CIDU for me, inasmuch as I’m not even sure who they are. (Yes, I know I could look them up.)
And I’m not sure about the symbols for Eisenstein and Tarantino. I mean, like not even what the pictured objects are.
For Godard, is that showing a generic French urbane guy, or is it a specific film? Breathless?
Sixteen names, of which I recognize eleven, and of those eleven, I can identify the relevant film for seven. In at least four cases, I have no interest in any kind of increased enlightenment.
P.S. I don’t this collection is nearly as successful as Atkinson’s various “Art” collections; even his “Literary” panels worked better. The reason is that both artists and authors tend to gravitate to a particular genre, whereas (good) film directors can be famous for several completely distinct types of movies. In two or three of the cases pictured here, I would have vastly preferred a different film reference.
Yes, for instance I do consider Bergman a very great director, but have never understood the popularity and critical adulation given to THE SEVENTH SEAL, which is the film signaled by the chess piece here.
And while I won’t object to the choice of film for Kubrick — it’s A CLOCKWORK ORANGE — it nonetheless doesn’t seem to me an especially iconic or standout choice among his work. I guess my first nomination for that would be 2001. But I can see how some would pick DR STRANGELOVE, or LOLITA, or THE SHINING, or even EYES WIDE SHUT.
…or SPARTACUS, or PATHS OF GLORY…
I don’t know Eisenstein or Campion.
I do know the Bigelow reference is Kathryn, specifically Oh Dark Thirty.
Oh, and Tarantino’s fish has been brutally murdered, as happens to a lot of characters in his films (like Pulp Fiction, Natural Born Killers (though he didn’t direct that one), and The Hateful Eight).
Jane Campion directed THE PIANO, and indeed the picture here has a piano keyboard. Among the awards associated with that film, Anna Paquin became the youngest person up to then to win an Oscar in an acting category.
I am guessing the Eisenstein is some kind of (red) pennant for The Battleship Potemkin, without looking it up. I’ve seen clips, and it’s famous for its editing, like the scene with the pram going down the steps. It’s about the early bits of the Russian revolution, which presumably is why the pennant is red (though the film is black and white).
Bigelow I assumed was The Hurt Locker. Campion is famous for The Piano.
I assume the artist picked A Clockwork Orange for Kubrick as the eye is iconic and fits the fish well. He could have made a fish out of a 2001 spaceship (at a push even the circular station, like Cameron’s implausible fishy lifebelt) or perhaps the Strangelove bomb (or B-52), but how to illustrate Eyes Wide Shut or Lolita in fish form?
Most I recognise because I’ve seen the relevant film, some only because I’ve heard of the films and seen clips (I’ve never seen Psycho, for instance). The only one I am not familiar with at all is del Toro, or what the object is supposed to represent.
Eisenstein’s iconic work was the Battleship Potemikn, which followed the begining of the Russian Communist revolution, hence the red banner.
DelToro helmed Pan’s Labyrinth, which featured a monster with eyes in the palms of his hnds.
Ah. And I’ve seen Pan’s Labyrinth, Shape of Water, Nightmare Alley and even one of the Hellboy films.
And another “Oscar first” among the directors listed is Kathryn Bigelow, best directing for The Hurt Locker in 2010, and the first woman to win that.
@Powers: Tarantino’s fish has been brutally murdered, as happens to a lot of characters in his films
I think it’s specifically O-Ren Fishy-eye from Kill Bill.
The director’s most famous film is not necessarily the best or most representative. We have this in music as well:
Rachmaninoff: Prelude in C Sharp Minor
Ravel: Bolero
Beethoven: Für Elise (not even known during his lifetime)
Bach: Toccata and Fugue in D Minor (not really in his style, and quite possibly not by Bach at all)
Brahms: Lullaby (admittedly a really good song and similar to that waltz of his, but the symphonies and the Requiem are so much better)
Pachelbel: Canon in D (really he wrote lots and lots of other stuff, none of which sounds anything like Canon in D)
I think Bergman has Woody Allen to thank for the popularity of The Seventh Seal.
I’m totally with Mitch4 (“6:58 AM”). And Powers (“7:13 AM”) told why I eschew Tarantino’s work. Oh, and MiB has it right about representative works.
@ MiB – Atkinson has done three “Art” and two “Literary” Schools of Fish; I suppose it’s only a matter of time before a “Musical School of Fish” appears. If that happens, I expect that it will probably concentrate on classical composers (all that modern electrical equipment used by rock musicicans will short circuit in the salt water).
Weird thing is that a “coppola” is a type of hat mostly used in southern Italy (and other places, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coppola_cap) but not the one the fish has….
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@ GiP – That cap style is featured prominently in Pixar’s short film “La Luna“:
P.S. I have no idea to which film the fish’s hat is supposed to refer. Its style might match “The Godfather”, but I cannot recall anyone wearing one like that, and I’m not about to watch it to find out.
No bearded fish (or a fish that’s parting the sea) for Cecil B DeMille’s Ten Commandments… Or even a fish in a chariot?
Kilby: I’m sure Atkinson can do the composers as fish. Bach: fish in a big powdered wig. Ravel: Spanish dancer. Tchaikovsky: a cannon, or perhaps a nutcracker. And all you have to do is give a fish a big scowl to get Beethoven.
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OK, Bigelow and Del Toro are sort of CIDU for me, inasmuch as I’m not even sure who they are. (Yes, I know I could look them up.)
And I’m not sure about the symbols for Eisenstein and Tarantino. I mean, like not even what the pictured objects are.
For Godard, is that showing a generic French urbane guy, or is it a specific film? Breathless?
Sixteen names, of which I recognize eleven, and of those eleven, I can identify the relevant film for seven. In at least four cases, I have no interest in any kind of increased enlightenment.
P.S. I don’t this collection is nearly as successful as Atkinson’s various “Art” collections; even his “Literary” panels worked better. The reason is that both artists and authors tend to gravitate to a particular genre, whereas (good) film directors can be famous for several completely distinct types of movies. In two or three of the cases pictured here, I would have vastly preferred a different film reference.
Yes, for instance I do consider Bergman a very great director, but have never understood the popularity and critical adulation given to THE SEVENTH SEAL, which is the film signaled by the chess piece here.
And while I won’t object to the choice of film for Kubrick — it’s A CLOCKWORK ORANGE — it nonetheless doesn’t seem to me an especially iconic or standout choice among his work. I guess my first nomination for that would be 2001. But I can see how some would pick DR STRANGELOVE, or LOLITA, or THE SHINING, or even EYES WIDE SHUT.
…or SPARTACUS, or PATHS OF GLORY…
I don’t know Eisenstein or Campion.
I do know the Bigelow reference is Kathryn, specifically Oh Dark Thirty.
Oh, and Tarantino’s fish has been brutally murdered, as happens to a lot of characters in his films (like Pulp Fiction, Natural Born Killers (though he didn’t direct that one), and The Hateful Eight).
Jane Campion directed THE PIANO, and indeed the picture here has a piano keyboard. Among the awards associated with that film, Anna Paquin became the youngest person up to then to win an Oscar in an acting category.
I am guessing the Eisenstein is some kind of (red) pennant for The Battleship Potemkin, without looking it up. I’ve seen clips, and it’s famous for its editing, like the scene with the pram going down the steps. It’s about the early bits of the Russian revolution, which presumably is why the pennant is red (though the film is black and white).
Bigelow I assumed was The Hurt Locker. Campion is famous for The Piano.
I assume the artist picked A Clockwork Orange for Kubrick as the eye is iconic and fits the fish well. He could have made a fish out of a 2001 spaceship (at a push even the circular station, like Cameron’s implausible fishy lifebelt) or perhaps the Strangelove bomb (or B-52), but how to illustrate Eyes Wide Shut or Lolita in fish form?
Most I recognise because I’ve seen the relevant film, some only because I’ve heard of the films and seen clips (I’ve never seen Psycho, for instance). The only one I am not familiar with at all is del Toro, or what the object is supposed to represent.
Eisenstein’s iconic work was the Battleship Potemikn, which followed the begining of the Russian Communist revolution, hence the red banner.
DelToro helmed Pan’s Labyrinth, which featured a monster with eyes in the palms of his hnds.
Ah. And I’ve seen Pan’s Labyrinth, Shape of Water, Nightmare Alley and even one of the Hellboy films.
And another “Oscar first” among the directors listed is Kathryn Bigelow, best directing for The Hurt Locker in 2010, and the first woman to win that.
@Powers: Tarantino’s fish has been brutally murdered, as happens to a lot of characters in his films
I think it’s specifically O-Ren Fishy-eye from Kill Bill.
The director’s most famous film is not necessarily the best or most representative. We have this in music as well:
Rachmaninoff: Prelude in C Sharp Minor
Ravel: Bolero
Beethoven: Für Elise (not even known during his lifetime)
Bach: Toccata and Fugue in D Minor (not really in his style, and quite possibly not by Bach at all)
Brahms: Lullaby (admittedly a really good song and similar to that waltz of his, but the symphonies and the Requiem are so much better)
Pachelbel: Canon in D (really he wrote lots and lots of other stuff, none of which sounds anything like Canon in D)
I think Bergman has Woody Allen to thank for the popularity of The Seventh Seal.
I’m totally with Mitch4 (“6:58 AM”). And Powers (“7:13 AM”) told why I eschew Tarantino’s work. Oh, and MiB has it right about representative works.
@ MiB – Atkinson has done three “Art” and two “Literary” Schools of Fish; I suppose it’s only a matter of time before a “Musical School of Fish” appears. If that happens, I expect that it will probably concentrate on classical composers (all that modern electrical equipment used by rock musicicans will short circuit in the salt water).
Weird thing is that a “coppola” is a type of hat mostly used in southern Italy (and other places, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coppola_cap) but not the one the fish has….
G
@ GiP – That cap style is featured prominently in Pixar’s short film “La Luna“:
P.S. I have no idea to which film the fish’s hat is supposed to refer. Its style might match “The Godfather”, but I cannot recall anyone wearing one like that, and I’m not about to watch it to find out.
No bearded fish (or a fish that’s parting the sea) for Cecil B DeMille’s Ten Commandments… Or even a fish in a chariot?
Kilby: I’m sure Atkinson can do the composers as fish. Bach: fish in a big powdered wig. Ravel: Spanish dancer. Tchaikovsky: a cannon, or perhaps a nutcracker. And all you have to do is give a fish a big scowl to get Beethoven.