July 2010
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“The following June, Rothko and his family again traveled to Europe. While on the...”
– Mark Rothko - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Yang has never been more sensitive to the rhythm of urban life—at one point...”
– It’s All Relative - Page 1 - Movies - New York - Village Voice
“The Investigations deals largely with the difficulties of language and meaning....”
– Philosophical Investigations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Maieutics (pronounced /meɪˈjuːtɪks/) is a procedure of pedagogy. It is based on...”
– Maieutics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Poem: The Great Sickness of W. Wilson in 1919
We live in a world where
Even kings get sick,
They lie, deceive, and trick,
But on a certain day, of a certain week,
They lie helpless, drawn, down and meek.
Their power to their side,
Their mantle weak,
What they see is their arms and skin and speak.
What they seek is a dream of the downward deep.
In the hallway,
She watches silent, weeps.
(inspired by this: The Anosognosic’s...
Misdirection (magic) - Wikipedia, the free... →
The study of close-up magic is a good introduction to misdirection. Misdirection takes advantage of the limits of the human mind in order to give the wrong picture and memory. The mind can concentrate on only one thing at a time. The magician uses this to manipulate the “victim’s” idea of how the world is supposed to be. Misdirection in magic may be as simple as a magician...
Lie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
The capacity to lie is noted early and nearly universally in human development. Social psychology and developmental psychology are concerned with the theory of mind, which people employ to simulate another’s reaction to their story and determine if a lie will be believable. The most commonly cited milestone, what is known as Machiavellian intelligence, is at the age of about four and a half...
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The Trouble With Filmmaking (in the West)
I really worry that filmmaking the way it is in the West hardens you too much as a human being. I’m not talking about big time money wrangling or ego or anything like that. I just mean the soul sucking procedures and limitations of organisation that film requires. It makes you act in ways which are anti-artistic (with the caveat that nothing really is anti-artistic).
With photography you wonder...
“It’s the sort of leadership that the 19th-century French democrat...”
– Her or him, it’s time to choose
“Chaplin never spoke more than cursorily about his filmmaking methods, claiming...”
– Charlie Chaplin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Peter had felt sick the evening before, and had a bad night of sleep, thinking...”
– Peter Brunette: In Memory - indieWIRE
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“Among other Nietzsche biographies available in English, Young’s biography...”
– Julian Young - Friedrich Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography - Reviewed by Charlie Huenemann, Utah State University
“No Quarto da Vanda is commonly classified as a documentary, which is convenient...”
– Still lives: James Quandt on the films of Pedro Costa - page 3 | ArtForum
“By contrast, Rossellini’s India is a (wonderfully) uneasy admixture of real and...”
– girish: Rossellini & India
“He is considered to be one of the founders of the cinéma vérité in France,...”
– Jean Rouch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“OM: Craft. Very simple. It’s an argument I’ve made quite often: most...”
– Interview with Olaf Möller, Part 2. “I’m not a cinephile”
“Tsai: I always hoped that the audience would find these small, subtle details in...”
– The Evening Class: 2006 TIFF—The Evening Class Interview With Tsai Ming-Liang
Movies and the Imagination (Berkley) →
“Is he happy with his films? “No,” he says firmly. “I’ve...”
– I squandered my chances, says Woody Allen | The Australian
June 2010
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Peter Brunette on Michael Haneke (Audio) →
“Human beings are narrative animals: every culture countenances itself as culture...”
– Smarter than You Think - David Foster Wallace | The New York Review of Books
“And so, rather than using the graphic details of violence and sex simply (and...”
– Transgression | The New York Review of Books
“In this context it is misleading to talk merely about Akerman’s mise en scène in...”
– JonathanRosenbaum.com » Blog Archive » Romance of the Ordinary [on Chantal Akerman]
“Stubbornly prejudiced, narrow-minded, or inflexible.
Having abnormally dry,...”
– hidebound: Definition, Synonyms from Answers.com
“The result is an acutely perceptive film about the process of artistic creation,...”
– Past, Moving Forward: The Little Theater of Pedro Costa - Page 1 - Film+TV - Los Angeles - LA Weekly
“Edward Yang is in the intriguing position of being one of the most gifted, and...”
– Senses of Cinema - Edward Yang
“The most disturbing interview is saved for the film’s closing moments....”
– BFI | Sight & Sound | Abbas Kiarostami’s Homework - A Little Learning
“The first time Sight and Sound ran its international critics’ poll of the...”
– BFI | Sight & Sound | A Little Learning
“The success of A One and a Two has already led to new offers. “I feel like...”
– Edward Yang: Take Two | Film | The Guardian
“During those rare moments of reflection when I’m not doing what film critics are...”
– JonathanRosenbaum.com » Blog Archive » Exiles in Modernity
“RS: There certainly are very definite continuities through all your films, on a...”
– An Interview with James Gray | Reverse Shot