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« Il y avait bien, là, dans ce film dont je ne me souviens plus très bien, un plan magnifique qui ne m'a pas quité, une parole importante qu'il faut à tout prix retrouver, une démarche unique qui n'a pas produit d'émules... [een unieke geste die geen school maakte...] Ou alors : Qu'en est-il de ce film fantôme dont on a l'air de parler depuis toujours, qui doit bien exister quelque part, mais que personne n'a vu ? » (Filmer à Tout Prix, 2011) « Quelque chose en somme qui serait comme le rêve d'un film qui se tiendrait tout entier dans une photographie. » (Philippe Dubois) « To remember is, more and more, not to recall a story but to be able to call up a picture. » (Susan Sontag) « Nothing clarifies an image like another image. » (Nicole Brenez) « Certain films (their genre hardly matters, only a particular detail, an ambience, an impression of déjà-vu) are especially mine. » (Ado Kyrou) « The beauty of the moment overtook him & he did not remember anything that preceded that moment. » (Jonas Mekas)
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31/75 Asyl [Asylum] (Kurt Kren, 1975) Bye Bye Birdie (George Sidney, 1963)
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2 ou 3 choses que je sais d’elle (Jean-Luc Godard, 1967) Au pan coupé (Guy Gilles, 1968)
#guy gilles#2 or 3 things i know about her#2 ou 3 choses que je sais d'elle#au pan coupé#wall engravings
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Le Havre (Aki Kaurismäki, 2011) | Le théâtre des matières (Jean-Claude Biette, 1977)
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Robert Kramer’s predilection for potters in The Edge (1968), Ice (1970) and Milestones (1975)
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The red couch at Andy Warhol’s Factory was as famous in its own right as any of his Superstars. Visitors to the Factory were invited to “perform” on camera, seated on the old couch.
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O Pão (Manoel de Oliveira, 1959) La ciénaga / La mujer sin cabeza (Lucrecia Martel, 2001 / 2008)
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Lucrecia Martel | La Ciénaga -> Zama
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Arielle Dombasle and Chris Marker ♥ Sans Soleil (1983) In the ‘Fées / Fairies’ zone of his Immemory CD-ROM (1998) Tokyo Days (1988) Dialector conversation (2013) Chris Marker as seen by Arielle Dombasle (catalogue Marker retrospective, Cinémathèque française, 1998)
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Martha / Maud
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Nine out of ten people who have seen To Catch a Thief will talk about the famous “cigarette in the egg” shot. Would Hitchcock have conceived this very effective gag in black and white?* No, of course not, and yet if you think about it, what does color have to do with it? It’s not the yellow as such, but the egg yolk itself that produces this effect on us, funny for some, powerful enough to nauseate others. But, and this is the crux of the matter, without its color, this egg is only partially an egg. It exists fully only in color. It is only in color that cinematic expression attains absolute realism.
(* The black-and-white equivalent is the jar of cream in which the English tourist in Rebecca puts out her cigarette.)
Éric Rohmer, “Of taste and colors”, Arts 59, March 1956.
Have you ever seen anything more revolting than an egg yolk breaking and spilling its yellow liquid? Blood is jolly, red. But egg yolk is yellow, revolting.
Hitchcock on his ovophobia
To Catch a Thief
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Le Boucher (Chabrol, 1970) Rio Bravo (Hawks, 1959)
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J’ai faim, j’ai froid (Chantal Akerman, 1984) Marie pour mémoire (Philippe Garrel, 1967) Les enfants désaccordés (Philippe Garrel, 1964)
#J’ai faim j’ai froid#Les enfants désaccordés#I'm hungry I'm cold#paris vu par#philippe garrel#chantal akerman#marie pour mémoire
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My fantasy double bill of 2017 for MUBI Notebook’s 10th Writers Poll:
Dunkirk (Christopher Nolan, USA) / Images d'Ostende (Henri Storck, 1929)
In Henri Storck's short, Images d'Ostende [Scenes of Ostend], one of the chapters, titled "L'écume" ("The sea foam"), shows nothing but froth on wintery shores, quivering in the wind. Watching the film recently on a 35mm print, in my mind, the foam was blowing to another beach of one of this year's blockbusters, similarly using natural chapter titles. In a scene in Dunkirk, thick shivering spume is collecting around the legs of three soldiers sitting on a foam-filled beach while they quietly watch a lone man stride out into the waves not to return. It was the only image in Nolan's film that resonated with me, despite the attempt for abstract and visual storytelling (downplaying exposition, backstory and dialogue). Storck shot his silent 'coast symphony' only 27 miles farther and about ten years prior to the actual Dunkirk evacuation. By that time, Storck, who continued to work during the German occupation of Belgium, would be as much questioned for his politics as Nolan is now.
“What lies before us is the task of marking multiplicities of individual space among humans as processes of foam in which defense and invention merge into each other - as speaking foams, one could say, as immune systems that dream beyond themselves ... via the establishment of a personalized traffic system, to the creation of a customized world picture poem.”
— Peter Sloterdijk in his poetics of plurality, Spheres III: Foams, 2004, p. 232
* Find my Fantasy Double Feature of 2016 here
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His Girl Sandrine
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Pablo Picasso, Jeune garçon au cheval, 1905-1906 El Topo (Jodorowsky, 1970) La Cicatrice Intérieure (Garrel, 1972)
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« Un artiste n'est jamais innocent pour moi, il y a une part de crapulerie fondamentale. »
Jacques Rivette, le veilleur (Claire Denis & Serge Daney, 1990)
#Jacques Rivette le veilleur#Jacques Rivette the night watchman#Jacques Rivette the Watchman#jacques rivette#the killing#kubrick
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Jeanne Dielman (Akerman, 1975) The Merchant of Four Seasons (Fassbinder, 1971) La noire de... / Black Girl (Ousmane Sembene, 1966)
#jeanne dielman#the merchant of four seasons#Händler der vier Jahreszeiten#la noire de...#la noire de#black girl
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