Tu n'as rien vu à Hiroshima {re:post}

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LUI

       Tu n'as rien vu à Hiroshima. Rien.

ELLE

       J'ai tout vu. Tout.

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Hiroshima mon amour (Alain Resnais, 1959)

Note: Originally posted on August 6, 2011.

LACONIA, or: Thinking Through Film

LACONIA: 1,200 Tweets on Film (cover) / CINEMA sign in Cluj

I'm a gusher, which makes it difficult for me to sit down and write a coherent, cohesive text about the things I love or to even present at length the reasons for which I love that certain book, film, etc. I suppose that's perfectly evident from my latest text for Projectorhead. (Many thanks to Anuj Malhotra.)

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I have read LACONIA twice and could read it many times more as I know that with each read there will be smth new to enthuse over, a new connection to be made. Masha Tupitsyn's writing is so insightful and powerful and addictive. Yes, addictive. Thanks to her blog, her writing is now part of my daily reading. Also: I cannot wait for her next book. Meanwhile, I got Beauty Talk & Monsters, which is a collection of stories told through movies. I'll just have to finish a bunch of others books before I can give it my undivided attention.

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"Thinking through film." I cannot imagine any other way of thinking. I don't know any other way of thinking. Part of why I love LACONIA so much is that it validates this thinking through film.

+ MT's twitter: @lifeasweshowit
+ MT's blog: Love Dog

Lonely Star

The Artist (Michel Hazanavicius, 2011)

„Înăuntrul studiourilor, «star-systemul» era bine stabilit şi supus unui control permanent şi riguros. Ierarhia cinematografică este fără îndoială singura în care drumul se parcurge în ambele sensuri. Poţi să ajungi în vîrf şi apoi să cobori treptele foarte uşor.”

- Charles Ford, Istoria Hollywoodului,

trad. Ion Cantacuzino, ed. Meridiane, 1972

We Were Promised Flying Cars

Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982)

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The out-of-print Blade Runner Sketchbook, for your reading pleasure:

Open publication - Free publishing - More blade runner | (via Geeks of Doom)

Cinéma 68

source

Cinéma 68
Textes et entretiens réunis par Antoine de Baecque, Stéphane Bouquet, Emmanuel Burdeau
2008, Cahiers du cinéma

Book review for Projectorhead (India)

















(This is my first book review, so please be gentle. Plus, I have to admit that the transition from French to English wasn't the smoothest - my English sounds too international, and I hate that.)

At the time I wrote this I wasn't aware of OWS, it had just started, so I should add that the cinematic treatment of the Occupy movement also deserves attention in the near future. Actually, so far I haven't heard of any film projects that deal with the Arab Spring. The Occupy movement, on the other hand, seems to enjoy a promising cinematic future. A few links:

+ Occupy Cinema
+ Occupy Wall Street: The Movie; Will There Be A Definite Film of the Movement?
+ Occupy, the Movie

In 40 years from now (if I live that long), I would definitely be interested in reading a book on the cinematic legacy of the Occupy movement.

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Tu n'as rien vu à Hiroshima

Source: decitre.fr

LUI

       Tu n'as rien vu à Hiroshima. Rien.

ELLE

       J'ai tout vu. Tout.

*****

Hiroshima mon amour (Alain Resnais, 1959)