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City Lost in Translation

Saturday, January 24, 2009

City as Backdrop:
-Lost in Tokyo (Lost in Translation) – a perfect example of alienation and anomie
-Another Tokyo (video clip) – estrangement goes mellow
City as Labyrinth:
-Credit animations in The Bourne Identity (Tribute animation  by befsztyk88pl)

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Manhattan

Monday, January 12, 2009

Woody Allen’s homage to Manhattan and to the long tradition linking cinema to the city:
-Vertov’s 1927 Der Mann mit der Kamera (Man with a Movie Camera)
-Walter Ruttman’s 1927 Berlin, die Sinfonie der Groszstadt (often referred to in English as (Symphony for a City), and,
-Fritz Lang’s c.1926-27 Metropolis
-the first images of Los Angeles 2019 in Ridley [...]

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