Not a great deal new to report: more cinema, more near misses in the metro, though I'm getting closer. Yesterday there was a woman in her 30s from New Zealand openly declaiming her need for adventure, and a girl with fresh ink on her arm and a big bag between her feet (everyone's got a story). Meanwhile I was accosted by an old bearded guy claiming to be from Clermont-Ferrand who, after his ten-minute introduction, asked me for money. No wonder everyone's so wary of being approached by strangers, it usually comes down to this. But then maybe I'm wrong: maybe he really was an unfortunate family man from Clermont-Ferrand who had had his bag stolen with his left-luggage ticket inside and was desperately wondering how to spend the night until his wife could come and rescue him in the morning. Maybe I should have taken him for a drink and offered him a bed for the night...
Cot cinma, after Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter and... Spring, The Coast Guard confirms Kim ki-duk as a major new talent. Despite the wavering tone, the film is held together by the director's extraordinary visual imagination. There are several shots here that derive from a purely cinematic logic that could not be planned in a screenplay anymore than they could be described after the fact by someone like me; which, after all, is practically the definition of mise en scene as coined by Jacques Rivette.
I should really stop talking shop in these journals. Like as if anyone's actually interested, right?
Cot cinma, after Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter and... Spring, The Coast Guard confirms Kim ki-duk as a major new talent. Despite the wavering tone, the film is held together by the director's extraordinary visual imagination. There are several shots here that derive from a purely cinematic logic that could not be planned in a screenplay anymore than they could be described after the fact by someone like me; which, after all, is practically the definition of mise en scene as coined by Jacques Rivette.
I should really stop talking shop in these journals. Like as if anyone's actually interested, right?
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Don't know if you are a hip hop fan but in Mos Def's latest album (1999) "Black on Both Sides" someone asks him where is hip hop going and he replies "ask yourself where are you going?" I think that is true. SO where is literature or cinematic critiqing going? Let the world know.
peace
I should really stop talking shop in these journals. Like as if anyone's actually interested, right? your right, I don't understand half the stuff you write, but I persevere haha
Nuckinya
[Edited on Aug 30, 2004 4:41AM]