The Absent Artist
The Absent Artist
  • Видео 6
  • Просмотров 124 567
After Hours: Martin Scorsese's Hidden Gem / A Modern Odyssey in the Streets of Manhattan
Video Analysis of Martin Scorsese's 1984 comedy After Hours.
Synopsis:
An ordinary word processor has the worst night of his life after he agrees to visit a girl in Soho who he met that evening at a coffee shop.
All footage used in this video are under fair use.
Letterboxd: letterboxd.com/matheusrego/​
RUclips Channel: ruclips.net/channel/UC90M...​
Instagram: the.absentartist
Facebook: --------
Email (in case you want to contact me): matheusgorskirego@gmail.com
Просмотров: 17 983

Видео

The Movies of Charlie Kauffman: The Archangel of Alienation
Просмотров 1,3 тыс.3 года назад
Video essay on the numerous themes that show up in filmmaker Charlie Kauffman's career. From alienation and isolation, to longing to connect with other people, Kauffman explores modern men's desires, needs and feelings in the midst of an incomprehensible world. Letterboxd: letterboxd.com/matheusrego/​ RUclips Channel: ruclips.net/channel/UC90M...​ Instagram: Facebook: Email (in case you want to...
Why You Should Watch 'Shiva Baby': The Art of Comedic Tension
Просмотров 4,4 тыс.3 года назад
Subscribe for weekly videos on movies and art, in general. Video review of 'Shiva Baby' (USA, 2020) // this film is director Emma Selligman's directorial debut in a full length movie. Synopsis: While at a Jewish funeral service with her parents, a college student has an awkward encounter with her sugar daddy and her ex-girlfriend. All footage used in this video are under fair use. Letterboxd: l...
Oscar 2021: Review of all the Best Picture Nominees
Просмотров 9 тыс.3 года назад
The 93rd Academy Awards will air on Sunday, 4/25. Here's a video review of all eight movies nominated for best picture. Letterboxd: letterboxd.com/matheusrego/ RUclips Channel: ruclips.net/channel/UC90Mzz61lqL2LNAcZ9PS3CA Instagram: Facebook: Email (in case you want to contact me): matheusgorskirego@gmail.com All videos, images and audio used in this video are under fair use.
Drive: A Masterclass in Filmmaking
Просмотров 15 тыс.4 года назад
Film Analysis: How Nicolas Winding Refn's 2011 movie 'Drive' is a masterclass in filmmaking and in building dreams. A short video essay on Nicolas Winding Refn's 'Drive'; how it appears as a masterclassin filmmaking.. How Nicolas Winding Refn's 'Drive' compares to David Lynch's films. How Nicolas Winding Refn's 'Drive' balances violence and beauty. Legendas em português nas configurações. Portu...
The Seventh Seal: A Most Life-Affirming Movie About Death
Просмотров 77 тыс.4 года назад
Film Analysis: Why Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal is the appropriate movie to watch in the midst of a pandemic. A short video essay on Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal; how it praises art. How The Seventh Seal is a most life-affirming movie about death. How Hannah and Her Sisters compares to The Seventh Seal. Analyzing how Woody Allen draws inspiration from Bergman's The Seventh Seal. Legen...

Комментарии

  • @Ramen5267
    @Ramen5267 14 дней назад

    A real human being is a real hero. The scorpion can't help itself therefore it stabs the frog. But scorpions can hold their breath for 2 days. The driver is a delusional guy thinking he's an action hero but you can clearly see his hands shake and in the motel room shootout scene and when he wears the mask of the hero when confronting Nino.

  • @michaelg7402
    @michaelg7402 2 месяца назад

    I have to disagree. It's a 10 out of 10. I've seen it dozens of times and it's truly perfect.

  • @MrEmperorApples
    @MrEmperorApples 3 месяца назад

    I think Kierkegaard has the best answer; that we all must work out our own salvation "in fear and trembling" until we set aside our hubris and take the keap of faith once and for all.

  • @ecyranot
    @ecyranot 3 месяца назад

    Quick story. I saw After Hours with my wife, and she could not stop laughing. I was laughing too, but some of it was just the contagion from her. We saw it again together and didn't laugh at all!! Humor is like that. It's hard to explain why something strikes us as funny one time but not another.

  • @WilliamDoyle-rb6lt
    @WilliamDoyle-rb6lt 3 месяца назад

    The Seventh Seal is one of those movies that when it's over,even if you don't understand everything that going on you realize it is one of the best ever made.

  • @benquinneyiii7941
    @benquinneyiii7941 4 месяца назад

    Tiger T 34

  • @hadinasrallah8928
    @hadinasrallah8928 4 месяца назад

    2:00 honestly i get it! i think taxi driver is just fine and my favorite ghibli movies are the non miyazaki ones: grave of fireflies, only yesterday and the absolute best one ever whisper of the heart

  • @aceandson
    @aceandson 5 месяцев назад

    Joe Frank was the best. His show, which much of this script was lifted from, is essential radio art.

  • @doge2themoon373
    @doge2themoon373 5 месяцев назад

    Timeless video

  • @Whats_the_point_pal
    @Whats_the_point_pal 5 месяцев назад

    Great analysis

  • @Fredo_Viola
    @Fredo_Viola 6 месяцев назад

    Minion is making references to Kafka throughout, and if fact, the scene with the bouncer at the punk clubs is word for word from “Before the Law.” I was so obsessed with this film growing up that when I moved to NYC to attend NYU film school I looked up Joe Minion and we went out for a coffee. I gushed all over him with compliments and he confirmed the Kafka influence. He also wrote Vampire’s Kiss, a really under-rated film which probably would have been much better with a better director.

  • @davidlevy4291
    @davidlevy4291 7 месяцев назад

    This is a very thoughtful analysis of the film. To me the philisophical/existential matter that always strikes me about this film, and leaves me asking questions is the very absurdity of proposing a game of chess against death in the first place, knowing that it is the ONLY impossible match. God may or my not exist, and this consideration is what tortures Von Sydow's character throughout the film....however, death is undeniable, and in his challenge to the grim reaper, he is engaging in an exercise in futility.

  • @Ivanselectsongs
    @Ivanselectsongs 7 месяцев назад

    WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME?!? I watched After Hours for the first time this year and had a blast. :D

  • @mohammedaljawhar7041
    @mohammedaljawhar7041 8 месяцев назад

    what is the name of the piano piece being played in the background? Minute 8. Please tell me.

  • @dzonnyblue3065
    @dzonnyblue3065 9 месяцев назад

    Drive Sucks an Absolute Overrated Overhyped Boring Trash !

  • @MichaelSalo
    @MichaelSalo 10 месяцев назад

    I appreciate this film as an example of the “one crazy night out” subgenre. And for the setting of New York in the 1980’s.

    • @aceandson
      @aceandson 5 месяцев назад

      After Hours is sometimes referred to as the "Yuppie Nightmare Cycle". Something Wild is another great one, so is Desperately Seeking Susan.

  • @Acoustic-Rabbit-Hole
    @Acoustic-Rabbit-Hole 10 месяцев назад

    Independent film maker here. Just a quick note, but I wold have the intro music start immodestly with the video footage because for a few second it make you question whether ones sound on turned off on the viewers device. Just a tip! Love your channel. - The Acoustic Rabbit Hole

  • @luciannebeans6679
    @luciannebeans6679 10 месяцев назад

    Throughout the entire film, we barely learn who died. Their whole focus is on themselves, particularly Danielle’s appearance, weight, relationship status and career. Nothing that actually matters in life. They recite the mourner’s Kaddish at the end, a profound prayer about creating the kingdom of heaven on earth. Their focus on the superficial keeps them in their own little hell, in what could and should be a loving and supportive cultural community. And it leaves a sensitive young woman trying to find her way feeling suffocated and lost.

  • @shreddhead23
    @shreddhead23 11 месяцев назад

    😃🙏💯

  • @officaldlz
    @officaldlz 11 месяцев назад

    I drive (I’m Literally Ryan Gosling And The Driver From Drive 2011)

  • @jordanfranck
    @jordanfranck 11 месяцев назад

    I love going into movies blind and I wasn’t expecting how funny this one was at times

  • @marcospe2468
    @marcospe2468 11 месяцев назад

    I really didn't enjoy it. It felt so slow for me and it became a mush in my head as soon as I ended waching it but now I understand a bit why other people would like it. Cool video!

    • @Sandstorm3313
      @Sandstorm3313 5 месяцев назад

      If this was slow for you then you have a bad attention span and mediocre taste

  • @ObserverObserved24
    @ObserverObserved24 Год назад

    Subscribed

  • @ObserverObserved24
    @ObserverObserved24 Год назад

    Subscribed

  • @mrhbr7974
    @mrhbr7974 Год назад

    i still don't understand this movie. can someone explain the plot and the story simply to me?

  • @franceleeparis37
    @franceleeparis37 Год назад

    In Islam a persons life on earth is a fleeting moment, a blink of an eye… ‘And this worldly life is not but diversion and amusement…’ in essence everything has been created to exalt Allah.. ‘And there is not a thing that it exalts Allah by his praise, but you do not understand their exalting’… thats why birds sing at dawn, wolves howl at the moon and trees bend in the wind… the real ‘life’ is in the hereafter where those who did not believe in Allah and the judgement day will be led to hell for eternity while the true believers, whether they are Muslim, Jewish, Christian or any other religion, will live in gardens below which rivers of pure water, milk, honey and non intoxicating wine flow.. that is the final attainment .. 🤔

    • @theabsentartist4912
      @theabsentartist4912 Год назад

      That's an unfortunate way to look at life, and a limiting - no to say dangerous - way to live it.

    • @lord_summerisle
      @lord_summerisle 10 месяцев назад

      NS ideology with belief instead of race and dressed up in flowery language, in other words

  • @Larry-vc5qv
    @Larry-vc5qv Год назад

    Great film. Age of Innocence is the Scorsese opus.

  • @do-notuse3821
    @do-notuse3821 Год назад

    RELIGIOUS DOGMA. DECIESED AS ART. !!!

  • @batflashzyzz
    @batflashzyzz Год назад

    FUCKING BANGING VIDEO MATE!!!!!!!!!!!one correction tho, Mickey saggs tried to be hindu not buddhist after catholic. Very different religions but both believe in reincarnation

  • @VidaBlue317
    @VidaBlue317 Год назад

    I think Brothers Karamazov deals with a similar faith/knowledge issue with the character of Ivan - but then Ivan goes cray cray in the presence of the Devil.

  • @kasnooksplaylist
    @kasnooksplaylist Год назад

    yup

  • @arjxnrk
    @arjxnrk Год назад

    yo why'd you stop making videos????

  • @Saeti4
    @Saeti4 Год назад

    great video about a masterpiece of a movie

  • @TheOtherKine
    @TheOtherKine Год назад

    I LOVE THIS MOVIE!!!!! The best!!!!

  • @johnwatts8346
    @johnwatts8346 Год назад

    jof and his wife and child represent joseph mary and jesus, and the positive hope that goes with them.

  • @johnwatts8346
    @johnwatts8346 Год назад

    i love that woody line where he goes 'i started out jewish but converted to narcissism'.

  • @tusharkumar8750
    @tusharkumar8750 Год назад

    I didn't understand the true message but I like this movie, it's like a "rollercoaster ride" also a bit of comical. Definitely most underrated Scorcese Movie.

  • @rougeen4948
    @rougeen4948 Год назад

    Saw this film in the cimema a few weeks ago in 35mm film. Incredible. One of my favourites already.

  • @benm5970
    @benm5970 Год назад

    I’m not gonna pretend like I’m an especially deep person because I’m not, and so I didn’t read into any of the hidden symbolism of this movie or anything, the reason I love this movie is because it’s just so batshit insane, like this is one of the weirdest movies I’ve ever seen but that’s exactly why it makes me laugh, from things like the main guy getting chased by vigilante citizens in an ice cream truck to getting turned into a newspaper statue and stolen this is just the ultimate “WTF Movie” for me, it’s so weird that it’s hard not to be entertained by it

    • @theabsentartist4912
      @theabsentartist4912 Год назад

      You're watching movies the right way, man; the way they were meant to be enjoyed.

    • @torontomame
      @torontomame Год назад

      I think of this movie EVERY TIME I hear an ice cream truck. Every time. 🤣

  • @TheCyberianWonder
    @TheCyberianWonder Год назад

    Just watched this film for the first time and this is the first commentary I've seen since, and the perspetives and points raised here are very much appreciated. I come away seeing that Jof is the most gainful character in this story because he's both a believer and he's someone who is kind and generous. Even if wholly deluded, he is the happiest of all the story's characters, and he does everything right by everyone he meets. Jof gave Block the best resolution to his search for meaning he could hope to find.

    • @theabsentartist4912
      @theabsentartist4912 Год назад

      I'm very glad to hear that these thought resonated with you. Upon reading the comments and different views on this movie, that people shared after watching the video, I came to realize, through other people's insights, that the mother (jof's wife), and the family they built together, also provide the knight with some comfort and some meaning.

  • @over_dunger1846
    @over_dunger1846 Год назад

    real human bean

  • @MikeWhiskyTango
    @MikeWhiskyTango Год назад

    I have lost count of how many times I have watched this film. Like another dark comedy called "Whitnail and I" I can watch both films over and over. They both capture atmosphere and characters and bizarre situations.

  • @iturnerurdadgay2442
    @iturnerurdadgay2442 Год назад

    I think i am.........

  • @trhansen3244
    @trhansen3244 Год назад

    This is the ONLY Scorsese film I've liked. His films are so completely overrated. But this one he got right.

    • @nalday2534
      @nalday2534 Год назад

      you should stick to marvel movies

    • @trhansen3244
      @trhansen3244 Год назад

      ​@@nalday2534 Scorcese is not a great filmmaker. Most overrated director ever. And I am not a fan of Marvel but I would probably rather watch those films than his. That doesn't speak to the high quality in Marvel films, rather it speaks to the low quality of his. After Hours is an exception.

    • @nalday2534
      @nalday2534 Год назад

      @@trhansen3244 of course you would. you like corporate junk

  • @grandchampion7275
    @grandchampion7275 Год назад

    The big, big difference between Woody Allen and Bergman is that the former tells and the latter shows. Allen is a rambling wannabe philosopher presenting essays in movie form, whereas Bergman is an artist.

    • @theabsentartist4912
      @theabsentartist4912 Год назад

      "Words, words, words" - Hamlet to Polonius. I see what you mean, and I believe you do have a point there, just like Hamlet points out the meaningless efforts of our vocabulary in trying to capture the essence of life and all its things, but ultimately failing, for the essence of things cannot be encapsulated by words. Still, Woody Allen does evoke a ton of emotions and conveys plenty of meaning thru his movies and even thru his dialogues. Regardless of how vain that effort to convey meaning through words might be, it is still worth the shot, as I understand.

  • @droneworldbrasil
    @droneworldbrasil Год назад

    I have this movie in VHS and in DVD.

  • @johnnyllooddte3415
    @johnnyllooddte3415 Год назад

    why would you put woody allen and the marx brothers in,, what is called ,,one of the greatest movies in existence.. thats just STU pd

  • @johnnyllooddte3415
    @johnnyllooddte3415 Год назад

    i dont think so.. i think death is trying to help him reconcile his thoughts about GOD.. death is not evil.. its his job.. he learns the secret of the chess game and still turns a blind eye to the trick.. at least momentarily and allows the other family to escape

  • @sbeity
    @sbeity Год назад

    7:44 urban life, greek mythology 8:50 myth reference

  • @kingofcards9
    @kingofcards9 Год назад

    As a Catholic this movie has interested me for a while. I like it's unique perspective in regards to my faith.

    • @Not_So_Slim_Shady
      @Not_So_Slim_Shady Год назад

      As an atheist I love it too. I think that's cool how people of different philosophies can still draw meaning and connection to this movie. Shows how truly great it is.

    • @Matheusss89
      @Matheusss89 6 месяцев назад

      Same. The movie deals with subjects all of us thought at some point, and there are characters that represent the different views of it we all heard at least once. At the same time, it doesn't try to force an answer. It has something for everyone. It feels authentic, and considering Bergman himself struggled with the subject, it's not surprising why.