It took 52 tries, but I finally found a bad John Ford movie.
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Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? 1970
Fassbinder uses the same trick over and over again throughout this film. A sequence begins in closeup or in a two shot. There's a conversation. And then, gradually, the camera pulls back to reveal one or two other people who serve as an audience. It's their presence that generates the tension, the awkwardness, the anxiety. This is Fassbinder's FACES -- a story told in reaction shots.
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In Front of Your Face 2021
From my 2017 interview with Hong . . .
NOTEBOOK: Did you intentionally just quote Diary of a Country Priest? “Everything is grace.”
HONG: Oh, yeah, yeah. Maybe one of the reasons I liked that film when I saw it for the first time was because of that dialogue at the end. It touches me deeply. It’s what I keep saying to myself every day.
NOTEBOOK: It is all grace.
HONG: Everything. Whether we acknowledge it, it is grace.
NOTEBOOK:…
