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Visionary cinema

At the dawn of cinema these two tendencies were already evident in the split between the brothers Lumiere and George Melies, for whereas the former concerned themselves with realist spectacles such as the arrival of a train at a station or people sitting around playing cards, Melies invented the special effect as a tool by [...]

Posted 06 December 2009 † Nomad93 § NowReading § visual ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Zeroville 2

“The thing is, that movie last night is a completely different movie when you watch it by yourself. Why is that? Movies are supposed to be watched with other people, aren’t they? Isn’t that part of the point of movies - you know, one of those social ritual things, with everyone watching? It never occurred [...]

Posted 10 February 2008 † Nomad93 § verbal ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Zeroville

“You know, vicar,” Viking Man says, tossing away his half-devoured cigar, “for some reason I feel like maybe you and you alone would understand this, but God loves two things and that’s the Movies and the Bomb. Of all the monuments we’ve made to God over the last five thousand years, have there been any [...]

Posted 08 February 2008 † Nomad93 § verbal ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Amnesiascope

L.A. is all that’s left of America the Delirious. Long ago, in the movie theaters of the land, L.A. collectivized the American dark; it cleaned up the depraved whispers and messier impulses of America’s deeper recesses and reduced them to archetypes or, even better, commodities. L.A. insisted that the subconscious didn’t own us but we [...]

Posted 12 July 2007 † Nomad93 § verbal ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,