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"It wasn't made for human beings, it's only good for snakes and funerals"
-Fritz Lang, 1963 on Cinemascope
Created on 2006-01-12 16:50:56 (#9241878), last updated 2009-11-05
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Basic Info BioThis blog began as a journal of every film i see in 2006. I took 2007 off and now that it's 2008 I am again documenting everything I see.
We get all the information with our eyes. People talk about film versus video and they talk about how film has more information but how HDTV will be able to equal that information or eventually video or digital or something will be able to give you more information. It's never about that. We get all the information with our eyes. We don't really need more. The thing that is so wonderful about film is the imperfections and the way that information is fouled up and diffused and the way that light wraps around the edge of the building in some inaccurate way and that has some emotional resonance. That's why film is magical. Video will have some magic of it's own and occasionally it does but it's rarer for the stuff itself to have that kind of emotional resonance.
Jem Cohen
Sight and Sound: When you are asked during the lecture whether lightweight digital cameras are going to save cinema you don't respond.
Jean-Luc Godard: I wanted to keep the scene short. But in any case I know nothing about it. What's bad is that students think that because they've got a little camera, they can film something. The manufacturers, even the critics, say: 'It's great! Everyone can make cinema!' No, not everyone can make cinema. Everyone can think they're making cinema, or say, 'I make cinema.' But if you give someone a pencil it doesn't mean they're going to draw like Raphael or Rembrandt. If I'd said all that, however, it would have been too long for the scene.
Just as water, gas, and electricity are brought into our houses from far off to satisfy our needs in response to a minimal effort, so we shall be supplied with visual or auditory images, which will appear and disappear at a simple movement of the hand, hardly more than a sign.
Walter Benjamin, 1936
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abbas kiarostami, agnes varda, akira kurosawa, alain resnais, alfred hitchcock, andre bazin, andrei tarkovsky, andrzej wajda, andy warhol, anna karina, archives, atom egoyan, bertolt brecht, blaxploitation, buster keaton, camp, charlie chaplin, chris marker, claire denis, colin mccabe, david bordwell, derek jarman, dziga vertov, dziga vertov group, experimental film, f. w. murnau, film noir, film studies, francois truffaut, french new wave, fritz lang, gillo pontecorvo, henri langlois, howard hawks, iranian new wave, jean-luc godard, jean-pierre gorin, jerry lewis, john cassavetes, john ford, jonas mekas, joris ivens, joyce wieland, kenji mizoguchi, kenneth anger, kinoks, korean cinema, kristin thompson, krzysztof kieslowski, la cinematheque francais, luis bunuel, man ray, martin scorsese, marx brothers, materialist film, michelangelo antonioni, mike hoolboom, mohsen makhmalbaf, new german cinema, nicholas ray, peter wollen, post-colonial theory, preservation, psychoanalytic theory, rainer werner fassbinder, robert frank, roberto rossellini, sergei eisenstein, stanley kubric, surrealism, the bytowne cinema, the canadian film institute, the oberhausen manifesto, tom gunning, werner herzog, westerns, wim wenders, woody allen, yasujiro ozu
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Carleton University - Ottawa, ON, Canada (2000 - 2004)
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