I am not sure this is what your looking for but Wim Wenders "Kings of the Road:In the course of Time" has no dialog in the first two hours, it is four hours long. When the characters finally do speak it totally blows you away and makes what they have to say seem so important and profound.
-David Folmar On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 11:43 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all > > An ex-Berkeley faculty friend has posed a very cool reference question...I > can use your help: > > I'm looking for examples of films that do interesting > things with words, either written or spoken, or (at the other extreme) try > to do without words. I've got lots of silent films with title cards I can > use, but I am looking for others. Some that come to mind include The Man > with the Movie Camera, My Dinner with Andre, and Koyaanisqatsi. Any > further suggestions? I'm interested in credits, subtitles, words on sets, > dialogue, voiceover, etc. > > > I've come up with Bob Dylan's lyric cards for Subterranean Homesick Blues > in "Don't Look Back"; the "meta" credits from the movie Stranger Than > Fiction; Buster Keaton in Samuel Beckett's "Film"(1965); and--oddly > enough--two Steve Martin Films (LA Story's sentient freeway sign and C.D. > Bales' [i.e. Cyrano's] hilarious put-down speech: "Let's start with... > Obvious: 'scuse me, is that your nose or did a bus park on your face? ") > > I think Adaptation might have some relevant stuff, but I can't quite > remember. > > What do you say? > > Gary Handman > Director > Media Resources Center > Moffitt Library > UC Berkeley > > 510-643-8566 > [email protected] > http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC > > "I have always preferred the reflection of life to life itself." > --Francois Truffaut > > > VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues > relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, > preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and > related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective > working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication > between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and > distributors. >
VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
