<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post7997673833227762286..comments</id><updated>2011-07-13T16:13:18.645-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Comments on Silliman&#39;s Blog: </title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7997673833227762286/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/01/you-start-to-realize-that-todd-haynes.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>8</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4501209091817016165</id><published>2008-01-04T12:51:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-01-04T12:51:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>To me the most obvious cinematic influence/interte...</title><summary type='text'>To me the most obvious cinematic influence/intertext was Dylan&#39;s own brilliant &quot;Renaldo and Clara&quot; (which of course was influenced by Godard etc), in which he plays with multiple strands of narrative arranged not chronologically but according to color and in which he plays &quot;Renaldo&quot; and Joan Baez &quot;Death.&quot;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7997673833227762286/comments/default/4501209091817016165'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7997673833227762286/comments/default/4501209091817016165'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/01/you-start-to-realize-that-todd-haynes.html?showComment=1199469060000#c4501209091817016165' title=''/><author><name>Johannes</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05337336796472940625</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/01/you-start-to-realize-that-todd-haynes.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7997673833227762286' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7997673833227762286' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-692830502"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 04, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1135794625617377955</id><published>2008-01-04T11:07:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-01-04T11:07:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I haven&#39;t seen the film yet, so these remarks may ...</title><summary type='text'>I haven&#39;t seen the film yet, so these remarks may be completely superfluous, but my point--made in an earlier box comment--is that Dylan himself deliberately constructed a pop iconic persona for himself, one that he knew was merely a mask--one in a series of masks--a phenomena of continuous pop cultural appropriation which Dylan and his publicists shrewdly understood (i.e., marketing).  The </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7997673833227762286/comments/default/1135794625617377955'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7997673833227762286/comments/default/1135794625617377955'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/01/you-start-to-realize-that-todd-haynes.html?showComment=1199462820000#c1135794625617377955' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/01/you-start-to-realize-that-todd-haynes.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7997673833227762286' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7997673833227762286' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 04, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5779956210439653641</id><published>2008-01-04T03:14:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-01-04T03:14:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>So glad you got to see it, Ron. I think it&#39;s a mar...</title><summary type='text'>So glad you got to see it, Ron. I think it&#39;s a marvel. These are largely my reactions as well, spot-on.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I like it as much as &lt;I&gt;Safe&lt;/I&gt;, which is saying a lot (though the arguments for them are entirely different). It&#39;s true that it&#39;s not as &quot;rattling and ferocious&quot; (I can&#39;t think of another film as uncomfortable as &lt;I&gt;Safe&lt;/I&gt;), but I think Haynes&#39; compositional sense just keeps </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7997673833227762286/comments/default/5779956210439653641'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7997673833227762286/comments/default/5779956210439653641'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/01/you-start-to-realize-that-todd-haynes.html?showComment=1199434440000#c5779956210439653641' title=''/><author><name>Andy Gricevich</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04367834692026653431</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://www.princemyshkins.com/images/Detritus.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/01/you-start-to-realize-that-todd-haynes.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7997673833227762286' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7997673833227762286' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1668048852"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 04, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4886845052497063340</id><published>2008-01-03T21:35:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-01-03T21:35:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Fellini absolutely, tho to my eye it was Juliet of...</title><summary type='text'>Fellini absolutely, tho to my eye it was &lt;B&gt;Juliet of the Spirits&lt;/B&gt;.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7997673833227762286/comments/default/4886845052497063340'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7997673833227762286/comments/default/4886845052497063340'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/01/you-start-to-realize-that-todd-haynes.html?showComment=1199414100000#c4886845052497063340' title=''/><author><name>Ron</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09250950725876683923</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/silliman/silliman2a.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/01/you-start-to-realize-that-todd-haynes.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7997673833227762286' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7997673833227762286' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 03, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6360698522080231156</id><published>2008-01-03T17:46:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-01-03T17:46:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Did anybody see the influence of Tarkovsky&#39;s &quot;Mirr...</title><summary type='text'>Did anybody see the influence of Tarkovsky&#39;s &quot;Mirror&quot; in this film.  For me it was all over the place.  Also Fellini&#39;s 8 1/2, Bergman&#39;s Persona and, of course, Bunuel&#39;s &quot;Obscure Object of Desire.&quot;  In that sense this film isn&#39;t an anomaly in its making as much as it was in the fact that it found the money to get made at all.  But it really is a beautiful throw back to that period of film...For me</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7997673833227762286/comments/default/6360698522080231156'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7997673833227762286/comments/default/6360698522080231156'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/01/you-start-to-realize-that-todd-haynes.html?showComment=1199400360000#c6360698522080231156' title=''/><author><name>Levari</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03797267895979862964</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='23' src='http://www.glennmcdonald.com/images/Marian%20McPartland%20%20-%20Jazz%20portrait,%20A%20Great%20Day%20in%20Harlem%20-%201958.JPG'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/01/you-start-to-realize-that-todd-haynes.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7997673833227762286' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7997673833227762286' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1958627702"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 03, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-495804164200880715</id><published>2008-01-03T14:14:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-01-03T14:14:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I&#39;d like to see it again as well, but after seeing...</title><summary type='text'>I&#39;d like to see it again as well, but after seeing it once I find I mostly agree with Luther here.  The problem is precisely that 40 years ago Antonioni, Goddard and Fellini used (tempting to say: used up) this same approach &amp; filmic lexicon to the point where, to me anyways, I&#39;m Not Here didn&#39;t escape its status as &quot;art film sneaking into the studio system&quot;--art busy signaling itself as artsy, </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7997673833227762286/comments/default/495804164200880715'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7997673833227762286/comments/default/495804164200880715'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/01/you-start-to-realize-that-todd-haynes.html?showComment=1199387640000#c495804164200880715' title=''/><author><name>Brent Cunningham</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/15120606584372602345</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='21' src='http://www.spdbooks.org/photo2.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/01/you-start-to-realize-that-todd-haynes.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7997673833227762286' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7997673833227762286' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1935263046"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 03, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5299973474894984110</id><published>2008-01-03T11:14:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-01-03T11:14:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;My favorite part of any motion picture is almost ...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;My favorite part of any motion picture is almost always that period at the beginning where the viewer is being pummeled by details that have not yet gelled into a coherent &amp; increasingly narrow narrative.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Perfectly obvious admission by the author of Ketjak and Tjanting.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7997673833227762286/comments/default/5299973474894984110'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7997673833227762286/comments/default/5299973474894984110'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/01/you-start-to-realize-that-todd-haynes.html?showComment=1199376840000#c5299973474894984110' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/01/you-start-to-realize-that-todd-haynes.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7997673833227762286' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7997673833227762286' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 03, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3123467029956217344</id><published>2008-01-03T08:44:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2008-01-03T08:44:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Ron, I agree that *I&#39;m Not There* is an amazing fe...</title><summary type='text'>Ron, I agree that *I&#39;m Not There* is an amazing feat of direction and acting.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;My main issue with the film is that because each of the narrative strains is pure pastiche, each runs the risk of coming off as much a cliche as a comment on a cliche.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;The Richard Gere narrative is gorgeously rendered, but in the end, it&#39;s a pastiche of all the Westerns Mel Brooks parodied in *</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7997673833227762286/comments/default/3123467029956217344'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/7997673833227762286/comments/default/3123467029956217344'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/01/you-start-to-realize-that-todd-haynes.html?showComment=1199367840000#c3123467029956217344' title=''/><author><name>Luther Blissett</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05431159615586957896</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/01/you-start-to-realize-that-todd-haynes.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7997673833227762286' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/7997673833227762286' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-901283303"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="January 03, 2008"/></entry></feed>