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Notiz zu A New Leaf von Elaine May
Jedesmal, wenn sich wer an einen Tisch setzt, fliegen in diesem zauberhaft komischen ersten Spielfilm von Elaine May die Fetzen. Im Screwball-Modus geht es dann hin und her (manchmal auch drunter und drüber) und aus oft nur drei verschiedenen Kameraeinstellungen pro Dialog entfaltet sich die ganze Bandbreite menschlicher Komik. Noch besser…
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Decisions, Dreams: Giotto, Fra Angelico, and John Ford
The pictorial strategies developed in the Trecento are most generally appreciated for their innovations in the representation of geometric space. Unlike flat byzantine mosaics, Trecento pictures started to become a plane, space began to recede outwards. Paintings were becoming something like a window through which the beholder witnessed the depth of his…
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Festina Lente: A Conversation about Lav Diaz
Over the last ten years Michael Guarneri has had a series of talks with Lav Diaz, gathering thoughts about the Filipino filmmaker’s craft, philosophy and politics. The result of these conversations has been published in Conversations with Lav Diaz (ISBN 9788864761022), available worldwide in January/February 2021. To celebrate Diaz’s birthday, to renew…
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Die Fliege auf dem Rezensenten
Es kommt selten vor, dass sogenannten Rezensenten etwas peinlich ist. Gewisse Strömungen innerhalb ihrer Branche brüsten sich gar damit, dass ihnen gar nichts peinlich ist, ihre Texte sprechen da für sich. Dabei gäbe es viel, was den Rezensenten peinlich sein könnte. Zum Beispiel könnten sie zu spät zu einer Pressevorführung…
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Notes on a shot from La folie Almayer by Chantal Akerman
“Through this taxonomic organization, Baillie suggests that cinema evolved out of consciousness and over time assumed forms increasingly distant from the deep self. In presenting these cinematic modes in reverse chronology, Baillie suggests that the cinema’s original and true nature is as a document of consciousness. » - R. Bruce Elder…
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Some Notes on the New York Diaries of Jonas Mekas, I Seem to Live, 1950–1969
I. SNOW Several years ago I watched Jonas Mekas’ diary film Lost, Lost, Lost (1976) on 16mm at Anthology Film Archives in downtown Manhattan. It was the end of December; the city was cold and when I stepped out of the theater three hours later onto 2nd Avenue I remember how snow flurried…
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Industrie und Fotografie
I was up very early so I walked in the sun along the Rhine instead of taking the U‑bahn to the cinema. As I got there Professor and the projectionist were in the middle of a conversation; Professor told me the projectionist was claiming a lone Canadian goose had driven out the previous inhabitants…
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Die Kinomomente des Jahres 2020
Strenggenommen gab es sie ja kaum die Kinomomente, die man sonst so summiert am Ende der Jahre. Zweimal bin ich dieses Jahr mit einem T‑Shirt im Kino gewesen (bei einer Pressevorführung von Tenet und bei unserer eigenen Vorführung von Va Savoir). Im Januar oder Februar war ich bestimmt auch im…
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For Maradona, star of the popular stage
It’s often that you hear about how moving images broke free of the dark screening room’s grasp and that this expansion made space for audiences more diverse than ever before. I am not sure if the fanciful, industrial halls of art galleries or the imposing, mighty pillars of museums are…
