剧情简介
1978美国电影《Grand Opera: An Historical Romance》由詹姆斯·班宁导演，影片讲述的是：
A transitional film at the end of his first decade of filmmaking James Benning’s Grand Opera introduces a degree of storytelling to his previously more formalist devices Benning calls the film his “first attempt at writing my own kind of history” and in a sense it also serves to write himself into history acutely measuring his place as a Midwestern experimental filmmaker then based in Oklahoma in relationship to the avantgarde scene situated in New York The film thus features homages to the prominent experimental cinema of the time including a spoof of Wavelength as well as cameos from Michael Snow Hollis Frampton and Yvonne Rainer Woven with these sequences are other characteristic Benning gambits – a compilation of every house he ever lived in a preoccupation with the history of Pi and the looming threat that a building will explode
A transitional film at the end of his first decade of filmmaking James Benning’s Grand Opera introduces a degree of storytelling to his previously more formalist devices Benning calls the film his “first attempt at writing my own kind of history” and in a sense it also serves to write himself into history acutely measuring his place as a Midwestern experimental filmmaker then based in Oklahoma in relationship to the avantgarde scene situated in New York The film thus features homages to the prominent experimental cinema of the time including a spoof of Wavelength as well as cameos from Michael Snow Hollis Frampton and Yvonne Rainer Woven with these sequences are other characteristic Benning gambits – a compilation of every house he ever lived in a preoccupation with the history of Pi and the looming threat that a building will explode
