Category: film

La Dialectique Peut-Elle Casser Des Briques?(Can Dialectics Break Bricks?)

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http://www.ubu.com/film/vienet_dialectics.html
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From bopsecrets.org

“Imagine a kung fu flick in which the martial artists spout Situationist aphorisms about conquering alienation while decadent bureaucrats ply the ironies of a stalled revolution. This is what you’ll encounter in René Viénet‘s outrageous refashioning of a Chinese fisticuff film. An influential Situationist, Viénet stripped the soundtrack from a run-of-the-mill Hong Kong export and lathered on his own devastating dialogue. . . . A brilliant, acerbic and riotous critique of the failure of socialism in which the martial artists counter ideological blows with theoretical thrusts from Debord, Reich and others. . . . Viénet’s target is also the mechanism of cinema and how it serves ideology.”

( via The Postmodern Anarchist )

I never panic

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It might be because I am been introduced to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. I borrowed from library the dvd of the 1981-2 television program. I am really hitching to listen the original BBC radio version. There is just too much on the internet about Douglas Adams and his works. I would like to offer some images.

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Stage for Disaster Area

host of Disaster Area concert

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I also would like to offer works by William Cordova, which might have been informed by “The Guide.” here. And especially his exhibition “William Cordova: No More Lonely Nights, organized by MOCA November 29, 2003 – February 8, 2004”. More images are pending.

Riding around town

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I have been thinking about Martin Scorsese‘s Taxi Driver for a while now, since I saw it last. I was really impressed by the way filmmakers moved about the city. Many elements, from Bernard Herrmann‘s score to the cinematography and generally Scoresese’s choices, are superb. There is a good sense of movement and rhythm. This is Herrmann’s last score and it is very impressive–conveying subtlety and a metered pace of an unhurried cab. (Terence Blanchard‘s score for Spike Lee‘s 25th Hour also had a very good pacing and measured beat; I’ll compare these two scores later.)

Pimps of nyc.

Driving around nyc. Texas chainsaw massacre in the theatre,

One interesting note from Wikipedia:

In the original screenplay Sport, as well as other minor characters, were black. Scorsese thought that this would make the film appear to be racist, and they were changed to white roles.