I've really appreciated how much David Bordwell (and his partner, Kristin Thompson) have taught me (through their writing) about filmmaking, film-viewing and film critique.
I'm working on a paper tonight that has me thinking about this post, so I thought I'd share it with you. It isn't directly related to what we've been talking about, but it is a nice discussion of a formalist strategy of filmmaking, that's both specific, deep and *really* really interesting when applied across a number of films.
Read about planimetric shots here.
