{"id":1217,"date":"2010-03-14T13:20:53","date_gmt":"2010-03-14T18:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2010\/03\/14\/two-or-three-scenes\/"},"modified":"2021-06-10T10:06:30","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T15:06:30","slug":"two-or-three-scenes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2010\/03\/14\/two-or-three-scenes\/","title":{"rendered":"two or three scenes&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How <a href=\"http:\/\/aivakhiv.blog.uvm.edu\/2010\/03\/the_outer_space_of_cinema.html\">\u00e0 propos<\/a>: Today&#8217;s Guardian&#8217;s piece on <a title=\"The greatest film scenes ever shot | Feature | Film | The Observer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/film\/2010\/mar\/14\/greatest-movie-scenes-psycho\">The Greatest Film Scenes Ever Shot<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What are your favorite scenes, your most indelibly etched screen memories, those &#8220;tiny pieces of time&#8221; as the article quotes James Stewart saying, that have remained with you ever since seeing them? (The comments open things up to a wider range than the actual article.)<\/p>\n<p>How about the coffee cup scene from <em>Two or Three Things I Know About Her<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e4LWwhFJoUw?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Forty-four years haven&#8217;t dated it as much as I thought it would have.<\/p>\n<p>Or the library, subway (below), and Nick Cave <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZS_GagmpfvU\">concert<\/a> scenes in <em>Wings of Desire<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2izlo8UX_PA?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How \u00e0 propos: Today&#8217;s Guardian&#8217;s piece on The Greatest Film Scenes Ever Shot. What are your favorite scenes, your most indelibly etched screen memories, those &#8220;tiny pieces of time&#8221; as the article quotes James Stewart saying, that have remained with you ever since seeing them? (The comments open things up to a wider range than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[688745],"tags":[352,16880,16847,16881],"class_list":["post-1217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cinema_zone","tag-film","tag-godard","tag-great-scenes","tag-wenders"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4IC4a-jD","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1220,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2010\/03\/22\/more-great-scenes\/","url_meta":{"origin":1217,"position":0},"title":"more great scenes","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"March 22, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=I6pOXjQLh7Y&hl=en_US&fs=1& From Bande a Part. (Thanks to Annette for suggesting it.) Or these two from Blow Up: http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_zeza1xeWKM&hl=en_US&fs=1& But I distinctly remember someone else coming along and kicking what was left of Jeff Beck's guitar neck right after this. Am I misremembering? Did I see something that was never there\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Cinema&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Cinema","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/category\/cinema_zone\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/I6pOXjQLh7Y\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1231,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2010\/04\/06\/cinema-poetry\/","url_meta":{"origin":1217,"position":1},"title":"cinema poetry","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"April 6, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"I just discovered the video blog Cinema Poetry, which has collected twenty (so far) of the most remarkable scenes in the history of cinema. The first of the two ride films below, the Lumiere brothers' rickshaw film from an Indochinese village, is beautiful (watch it in full screen with the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Cinema&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Cinema","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/category\/cinema_zone\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/C5XlKaii0OE\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1275,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2010\/05\/28\/offshore-toxic-event\/","url_meta":{"origin":1217,"position":2},"title":"offshore toxic event","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"May 28, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"The OTE keeps unfolding... http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ULLHYmz98P0&hl=en_US&fs=1& Does that thing (between 0:11 and 0:27) know what it is swimming through?? Here's a good collection of some of the most memorable images (but what's that awful music?): http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DRkPzUx0pSQ&hl=en_US&fs=1& Does Sarah McLaughlin improve things a little? http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ik43Hgax4Kw&hl=en_US&fs=1& Or a little light Bach? http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rip7kbZRv18&hl=en_US&fs=1& It's\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Politics&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Politics","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/category\/politics_postpolitics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/ULLHYmz98P0\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1253,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2010\/04\/29\/pictures-of-light\/","url_meta":{"origin":1217,"position":3},"title":"pictures of light","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"April 29, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"There are some beautiful photographs of Eyjafjallajokull accompanied by the Northern Lights here. (Thanks to Politics Theory Photography for posting on it.) They remind me of one of my favorite films about nature, seeing, and light, Peter Mettler's Picture of Light (with music by Jim O'Rourke). http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ND1buD9ccfk&hl=en_US&fs=1& http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=scUUJWWE34o&hl=en_US&fs=1&","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Cinema&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Cinema","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/category\/cinema_zone\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"article-1268225-094368A3000005DC-346_964x641.jpg","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/files\/2010\/04\/article-1268225-094368A3000005DC-346_964x641.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1181,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2010\/01\/18\/ways-to-shoot-starlings\/","url_meta":{"origin":1217,"position":4},"title":"ways to shoot starlings","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"January 18, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"\"Shoot\" as in film, photograph, capture and display, but also fly with them, shoot the rapids of their movement, accompany them, become starling. These mesmerizing videos of moving masses of starlings, \"murmurations\" as they're called, like other YouTube animal videos, tell us as much about the phenomenon being watched as\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Cinema&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Cinema","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/category\/cinema_zone\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/XH-groCeKbE\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1222,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2010\/03\/26\/food-desert-mansions\/","url_meta":{"origin":1217,"position":5},"title":"food &amp; desert mansions","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"March 26, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"(great scenes, part 4) http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9rxpfO90mg8&hl=en_US&fs=1& A propos the previous post... This may be one of Antonioni's worst, or at least most dated, films, but the climactic scene is certainly memorable, especially if you know Pink Floyd's \"Careful with that axe, Eugene\" (though, honestly, once the screaming starts, the music feels\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Cinema&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Cinema","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/category\/cinema_zone\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/9rxpfO90mg8\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11894,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217\/revisions\/11894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}