January 2012
9 posts
Jan 27th
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Jan 23rd
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from Jerry Lewis’ THE TOTAL FILMMAKER (and inspired by Gina’s recent post)
Jan 22nd
7 tags
"I have no rights. I have only duties.”
Per Jean-Luc Godard, there is no such thing as “intellectual property.” Read
Jan 18th
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Jan 18th
1 tag
Film within a film
from UNE FEMME DOUCE (1969, Robert Bresson), with an unexpected cameo by Pierre Clémenti in THE DIARY OF AN INNOCENT BOY (1968, Michel Deville)
Jan 18th
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Jan 14th
Jan 14th
Hélas / Hell As
The ubiquitous cruise ship from FILM SOCIALISME (2010) tragically sank today. Story here. 
Jan 14th
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December 2011
7 posts
2011
Best films of 2011, that premiered in New York/elsewhere: ANY EVER (Ryan Trecartin) HOUSE OF PLEASURES (HOUSE OF TOLERANCE) (Bertrand Bonello) SEEKING THE MONKEY KING (Ken Jacobs) MARGARET (Kenneth Lonergan) SLEEPLESS NIGHTS STORIES (Jonas Mekas) THAT SUMMER (Philippe Garrel) THIS IS NOT A FILM (Mojtaba Mirtahmasb and Jafar Panahi) THE RETURN (Nathaniel Dorsky) MILDRED...
Dec 31st
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ListenGoodbye, 2011, from Stephan Mathieu & Ekkehard...
Dec 31st
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2011 Repertory Discoveries
The 25 best features and shorts I saw on screen this year: L’AMOUR FOU (Jacques Rivette) DIARY OF A COUNTRY PRIEST (Robert Bresson)* DOOMED LOVE (Manoel de Oliveira) THE DRIVER (Walter Hill) FLOATING WEEDS (Yasujiro Ozu) FRANCISCA (Manoel de Oliveira) THE GOLDEN EIGHTIES (Chantal Akerman) A HERO OF OUR TIME (Michael Almereyda) HOUSE OF BAMBOO (Samuel Fuller)* ...
Dec 26th
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Dec 25th
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from the Tate Modern catalogue “Film: Tacita Dean” (ed. Nicholas Cullinan)
Dec 15th
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Dec 15th
Dec 11th
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November 2011
9 posts
Until the end of the world
Nov 29th
Bresson isn't crazy
A 1984 interview with Straub/Huillet, from Cahiers du Cinema Issue 364, reposted at Kino Slang 
Nov 25th
2 tags
Domestic Violence
Nov 18th
Nov 18th
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4 tags
#N17
Nov 18th
Nov 17th
7 tags
Ken Jacobs at Zuccotti Park, 11/13/11
Nov 16th
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Virtue-rights
“Power is an educational system that divides us into subjects and subjected. Nevertheless, it is an educational system that forms us all, from the so-called ruling class all the way down to the poorest of us. That¹s why everyone wants the same things and everyone acts in the same way. If I have access to an administrative council or a Stock Market maneuver, that¹s what I use. Otherwise I...
Nov 8th
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Nov 3rd
October 2011
8 posts
Forthcoming Proof
Oct 29th
Oct 26th
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Oct 22nd
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Oct 19th
Oct 13th
The Return
  The camera must give itself completely and wholly to its subject, yet it cannot give itself away to its subject. When a filmmaker is fully and selflessly present, the audience becomes fully and selflessly present. The filmmaker’s physical relationship to the world manifests as the camera’s relationship to the image and becomes the audience’s relationship to the screen. To the degree that a...
Oct 10th
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ListenOccupy Wall Street, 1 October 2011, GA (General...
Oct 2nd
5 tags
Was the whole world watching?
taken at 4:45 PM. Three friends of mine below were arrested.
Oct 1st
September 2011
5 posts
Under shelter
the last page of the shooting script to THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS (1942)
Sep 16th
Essentials
Sep 15th
Sep 12th
1 tag
Listenbeigetones: BEIGE HOLLOW POINT RECORDED BY...
Sep 3rd
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Sep 3rd
August 2011
8 posts
Aug 27th
Aug 21st
“Cinema, by definition, captures the outside world from a given angle. It may multiply the angles, accentuate subtle differences; though no more than that really-contrary to what the proponents of digital cinema may say. Theoretically speaking, cinema privileges structure, given that the work is formed on the basis of fragments that have come from outside. Cinema may compose as realist...
Aug 19th
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Aug 15th
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Aug 12th
Consumed by fire
from REGULAR LOVERS (2005, Philippe Garrel)
Aug 9th
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Aug 1st
July 2011
13 posts
Jul 31st
Cruising
from THE RIVER (Tsai Ming-Liang, 1997)
Jul 26th