10 Best Films of 1957
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A jump cut -- Patricia in a car with Michel driving.
Bertolt Brecht issue: Cahiers du cinéma, no. 114 (December 1960). Essays include:
DRAMATIC THEATRE | EPIC THEATRE |
plot | narrative |
implicates the spectator in a stage situation | turns the spectator into an observer, but |
wears down his capacity for action | arouses his capacity for action |
provides him with sensations | forces him to take decisions |
experience | picture of the world |
the spectator is involved in something | he is made to face something |
suggestion | argument |
instinctive feelings are preserved | brought to the point of recognition |
the spectator is in the thick of it, shares the experience | the spectator stands outside, studies |
the human being is taken for granted | the human being is the object of the inquiry |
he is unalterable | he is alterable and able to alter |
eyes on the finish | eyes on the course |
one scene makes another | each scene for itself |
growth | montage |
linear development | in curves |
evolutionary determinism | jumps |
man as fixed point | man as a process |
thought determines being | social being determines thought |
feeling | reason |
"DEADLY SINS" OF THE CLASSICAL CINEMA | "CARDINAL VIRTUES" OF COUNTER CINEMA |
Narrative transitivity | Narrative intransitivity |
Identification | Estrangement |
Transparency | Foregrounding |
Single diegesis | Multiple diegesis |
Closure | Aperture |
Pleasure | Un-pleasure |
Fiction | Reality |
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New York Film Festival Retrospective: "The Spirit of the Forms" (2013)
First 3D feature film: Goodbye to Language 3D (Adieu au langage, 2013)