Kids seem to have breathing problems in films the whole time - doesn't
Danny suffer in t' Shining, and all of those
people-working-in-terrible-conditions movies like Erin Brock,
Silkwood, etc. Haley Joel Osment in Sixth Sense.  Superman Returns.
The Goonies.  (Although I haven't seen a decent movie yet with
whooping cough as a central theme.)

[Try this: http://www.imdb.com/keyword/asthma/]

Morpheus: "Do you think that is air you're breathing now?"

(Haley Joel Osment in AI is, of course, breathing nothing...)

Diving films normally have stuff about, you know, air and breathing
and holding one's breath - Abyss, the underrated Deep Blue Sea (sharks
swim backwards?!), etc.  And some "breathless" (wink wink) moments in
Danny Boyle's Sunshine...  Guess these Self-Contained Underwater
Breathing Apparatchiks give it away...

Top Gun, of course, features the classic Berlin track "Take my Breath
Away", although I haven't seen a film featuring REM's "Try not to
breathe".

Sick, the sick movie about Bob Flanagan and nails (although the nails
shrink into insignificance if the hammer's big enough), has some
breathing trouble in it.  So does the Barbara Kopple one about the
minors...  Sorry, miners...

Then IMDb says that lots of yoga videos have breathing techniques in
them.  Open up cinema to include self-help guides?

Iron lung in Big Lebowski (the TV writer); pierced lung in Three
Kings; lung cancer gets around.

Basta questa pasta?

w


>
>  Hello all,
>
>  right now, I'm putting together a postdoc research project which, =
> among other things, deals with breath in film and in general the =
> relation of breath and film on a philosophical basis. May sound odd, but =
> well... You never know where philosophy drives you. So I'm interested in =
> films dealing with this topic in any possible way-but especially =
> concerning shortness of breath. Hence, I'd like to ask for some help =
> considering the following:
>
>  1. Oh, how gladly would I recieve any hints concerning films relevant =
> to this topic besides Godard's "A bout de souffle"! E.g. films about =
> people suffering from asthma etc.
>
>  2. Rumour has it that Lacoue-Labarthe wrote something about that =
> topic. Up to now, I was unable to find anything, though. Would anyone =
> know any text by him about the topic (or, to be sure, texts by any other =
> guy)?
>
>  3. Something more specific: About his film "Once Upon a Time in the =
> West," Sergio Leone said: "The rhythm of this film aims at showing the =
> tension of a human being's last draws of breath shortly before his =
> death." Anyone know where I could find that quotation? Don't want to =
> quote it just from my DVD's back cover, but haven't found it yet.
>
>  Well, any help in this would be greatly greatly appreciated,
>
>  many thanks in advance,
>
>  Patrick

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