tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5579754230116285540.post6782920719568219293..comments2024-02-15T02:22:39.587-08:00Comments on the art of memory: robert bresson, samuel fuller, jean-pierre melville & trains in cinemathe art of memoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02748087818232571209noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5579754230116285540.post-66774432958734745652008-03-21T12:16:00.000-07:002008-03-21T12:16:00.000-07:00village voice: sept. 3, 1970 found in "movie journ...village voice: sept. 3, 1970 found in "movie journal, the rise of the new american cinema"<BR/>(here is the beginning)<BR/><BR/>for some time now, for three, four years, i have been going through a period of reseeing, reevaluating every movie i saw before, years ago, and thought was either great or terrible. i am discovering that i've been badly influenced by all the film history books. i am discovering that most of the film history books (and most of the current monographs and collections of film criticism) have been written after one or, at most, two viewings of a film. while we, the new critics (kelman, sitney, foreman, myself, and, partly sarris), do not write anything decisive unless we see a movie five, ten, twenty, thirty times. so that all the film history books written till now will have to be junked, they are of no value, their only value us as part of social history. they have nothing to do with the history of film art.<BR/>perhaps the only voices one can trust are those of the filmmakers themselves. not when they are analyzing the meanings of their films (there, the truth of matisse-the tongues of artists should be cut out-remains true), but when they speak about how the film was made, the process, the procedures, the impulses, the attitudes, some of the reasonings, and a few other matters which begin to lay the first seeds of formal criticism ..............the art of memoryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02748087818232571209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5579754230116285540.post-24305569660552178882008-03-21T11:48:00.000-07:002008-03-21T11:48:00.000-07:00Do you have a link to the mentioned article?Do you have a link to the mentioned article?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5579754230116285540.post-12038987385398085362008-03-21T07:59:00.000-07:002008-03-21T07:59:00.000-07:00yes, maybe with the two new criterion sets i will ...yes, maybe with the two new criterion sets i will try to get thorough with ozu's trains.the art of memoryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02748087818232571209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5579754230116285540.post-15856031051896072752008-03-21T00:38:00.000-07:002008-03-21T00:38:00.000-07:00although no crimes are committed, and indeed one s...although no crimes are committed, and indeed one seldom even sees the trains from the inside, trains in movies can't be mentioned without mentioning ozu...:-)srodenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02863279056994309967noreply@blogger.com