OK, the cinetrix hasn't the concentration to write. At all. But! She still can read. And so can you. Or, you know, just watch. After all, his eminence Andre Bazin says that shots in depth encourage more active viewing.
- Indie IT girl shills cotton, above.
- Spoiler alert! Guardian scribe suggests that, sometimes, foreknowledge is forearmed. The cinetrix loves the tabula rasa approach of the Flaherty, but, realistically, the other 51 weeks of the year she is stuck reading about flicks not ever playing at a cinema near her. So, spoil away. Just write well and I'm yours.
- Related: my most-recent favorite note from an imperfect memory. "We are so accustomed to viewing all films over and over again, the fictitious ones as well as those pertaining to our lives; we have been so thoroughly contaminated by a retrospective technique that we are quite capable, under the blow of contemporary vertigo, to rethread history as one threads a film wrong side up." -- Jean Baudrillard, Reversion of History
- Still trying to decide under which name I submit a bio to criticWIRE.
Oh, and I could look at this Godard intertitle ALL DAY.
[Again, see lack of attention referenced above.]
