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To Each His Cinema

2007-07-25 23:24:00 by Pacze Moj in Critical Culture
 
...cinema mean to you" variety, with Fellini and Godard thrown in for good measure. For the cynically astute, on the other hand, it wouldn't be out of place to call To Each His Cinema a big cinematic circle jerk, with enough splooge for everyone. If that seems a bit revolting, well, just don't be cynical. And enjoy cinema being celebrated by...
 
Tags: cinema, cinema memories, memories, cinema-goer, cinema gropes, fancy cinema, cinema erotique, bigger cinema, love
 
 
 
 
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Rocha: On Brazilian Cinema

2008-04-13 17:18:00 by Pacze Moj in Critical Culture
 
...Cinema Novo, from the Winter 1970 issue of The Drama Review . Translation by Joanne Pottlitzer Beginning at Zero Notes on Cinema and Society Like every other culture in this technology-dominated world, Brazilian culture shows the influence of cinema. Film arbitrates life-styles, activates the imagination with its fantasies, and shapes...
 
Tags: cinema novo, cinema novo movement, cinema novo begins, cinema novo prestige, cinema, cinema novo propose, film, film industry, white film
 
 
 
 
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The National Cinema Problem

2007-11-29 06:55:00 by Chris Cagle in Category D: A Film and Media Studies Blog
 
...cinema. He regularly teaches a course on international cinema and felt that a couple of well targeted essays could frame the discussion of national specificity of meaning amid what could otherwise be a kaleidoscopic tour. Immediately came to mind several pieces of scholarship that outline and interrogate that concept of national cinema:...
 
Tags: national cinema, national cinema-skeptics, national cinema historiography, approaches, films, films construct, textual approaches, valuable theoretical discussions, study
 
 
 
 
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Gilles Deleuze and Contemplative Cinema

2007-01-27 12:08:00 by adrian chan in Reviews and analysis of significant films and movies, on dvd and in theaters
 
...Cinema blogathon Against those who defined Italian neo-realism by its social content, Bazin put forward the fundamental requirement of formal aesthetic criteria. According to him, it was a matter of a new form of reality, said to be dispersive, elliptical, errant or wavering, working in blocs, with deliberately weak connections and floating...
 
Tags: purely optical space, optical, purely optical situations, space, optical situation, deleuze, gilles deleuze, pure optical situation, image-action
 
 
 
 
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Nicole Brenez on Experimental Cinema

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2008-03-09 23:00:00 by girish in girish
 
...cinema, Experimental Conversations (2006), prominently features Nicole Brenez. I have transcribed all her comments, and am presenting them below in the order in which they appear in the documentary. Let me add that Brenez's fiery, polemical text is enhanced by seeing/hearing her speak--she is clear and incisive, and her manner patient,...
 
Tags: experimental cinema, defines experimental cinema, experimental cinema stands, cinema, experimental cinema implies, implies, avant-garde cinema explores, avant-garde cinema, experimental cinema involves
 
 
 
 
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Questions of Third Cinema edited by Jim Pines and Paul Willemen

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2008-03-12 22:40:25 by Editor in Film Fest Journal
...Cinema examines the evolution, application, relevance, and continued challenges of Third Cinema in its manifestation, not only from the perspective of its critical origins in Latin America and its diverse incarnations in the native cinemas of African and Asian countries relegated to third world status, but also in its representations of the...
 
Tags: cinema, narrative, cinema narrative, cinema functions, american cinema, world peoples, world, examines, cinema question
 
 
 
 
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CINEMA NOWThe Evening Class Interview With Andrew Bailey

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2007-12-29 14:27:00 by Maya in The Evening Class
...Cinema Now , handsomely published by Taschen, wields considerable heft. Not only because its heavy paper stock will earn you a bicep or two; but, because intellectually it's a rich overview of contemporary filmmaking. If the logical depth of a film is the invested meaning harbored within it, then Cinema Now reflects a logicalindeed...
 
Tags: andrew bailey, andrew, andrew bailey takes, world cinema crowd, world, cinema, bailey, film, drive film culture
 
 
 
 
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Great Filmmakers Thoughts On Cinema

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2007-11-16 05:10:16 by Editor in nirvanacinema
...Cinema Current mood: contemplative Category: Art and Photography David Lynch I keep hoping people will like abstractions, space to dream, consider things that don't necessarily add up Film can do amazing things with abstraction, but it rarely gets a chance. People are treated like idiots, and people are not idiots. We're hip to the human...
 
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Cinema Thoughts over the last year

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2007-11-05 23:34:51 by Editor in nirvanacinema
Cinema has nothing to do with storytelling Current mood: calm Category: Movies, TV, Celebrities I know that a few people misunderstand certain arts like abstract cinema and music and call them storytelling or narrative. All anyone has to do to is look up the dictionary definition and etymology of these words( www.dictionary.com and...
 
Tags: pure, pure cinema celluloid, encompass abstract moods, moods, abstract, abstract movies, abstract cinema, non-narrative elements, non-narrative
 
 
 
 
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"Movie" vs. British Cinema

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2007-11-14 15:00:00 by girish in girish
...Cinema Book , S&S was not against personal cinema; but it championed only a certain kind of art cinema, primarily European, and it was unsympathetic to Hollywood cinema, which it viewed mostly as industrially manufactured mass-cultural product. As the decade wore on, S&S began supporting the newly-born Free Cinema and its filmmakers (Lindsay...