For a full discussion of the King David, please see my post on ChairsAndBuildings.. "Building Freedom
Sometimes there's architecture IN a film, and sometimes architecture is LIKE a film. But sometimes the architecture IS the film: When it rises above just being a thing to see, and becomes a MECHANISM for a WAY of SEEING, that is the Architecture OF Film
Saturday, April 20, 2013
Saturday, March 02, 2013
Architect of Film: Saul Bass's Title Design for "The Cardinal" [1963]
For a movie about a priest's rise through the ranks of church amid the turmoil of radical changes in social morality, religious observance and political structures, Bass's use of the central character's trip across floors, up stairs, and through the colonnades of Rome, makes graphic the loneliness of his path through history - the world's at large, and the personal one of.... The Cardinal.
Saturday, February 16, 2013
Architecture of "The Asphalt Jungle" [1950]
The city is big, but the streets are empty. The sky is broad, but buildings crowd the view. The light is harsh, and the shadows are long. In this seminal noir/heist movie, (a criminal's procedural), all the well laid plans go off without a hitch. It's only afterward that the gang of crooks are done in, one by one, by their own moral failings. The grim and grimy backdrop is a modern metropolis. But the stifling atmosphere is provided by the existential doom of the characters. It is their mutual, inner alienation that makes this gritty place The Asphalt Jungle.
Cinematographer Harold Rosson was nominated for both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe for his B/W photography.
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