Martin Scorcese - 1973
Rigorously stylised, which isn't really to my taste, but interesting enough. Striking reds and other colours. Self conscious long tracking shots of characters, also big pans in and out with autonomous camera. Fidgity cutting around characters for a reason I could not fathom ('refreshing' the image?).
Built around episodes of long conversations. Nouvelle Vague style of a lack of clear direction, just these long dialogues of colourful characters. Gleeful shiftings of tone again more European art cinema than Hollywood. Portrait of New York with these long bits of dialogue. The stylisation doesn't really come to anything, and the narrative isn't messed around with in the way these techniques were really designed to do; developments in cinema not really used as anything but embellishments to classical model. Still, interesting and different.
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