first night back in Paris coincided with the most extensive program (& largest projection) of all Anthony McCall’s cone films from his Solid Light Films, projected one after the other in a vast spatial realm that really opened up the works in ways I have never seen before.
Fred Camper!
Fritz Lang’s M!
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Zoom lecture, June 7th at 12 noon Central time.
I've never not learned something incredible when listening to Fred talk about movies.
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At the heart of L Cohen's inconstant comic thriller THE AMBULANCE is anticipation of romance made into an agonizing & illusory trial. An unmoored Eric Roberts, w/limbs like a marionette, manages to ground the movie's reflecting alternate realities as conjured from a hospital bed.
These screenings over the last two months have been so fantastic. Many I had not seen before. It really reminded me how interesting and complex the Newsreel films are. Seeing them on prints has been very special. Those who can should definitely go to this last (for now) screening
Among other things, can't be said enough: fuck Paul Thomas Anderson. and up with Robert Kramer
My ★★★★★ review of Milestones (1975) on @letterboxd: https://t.co/9iSasWfEMk
Fresh-faced D Patrick in a jam & G Mohr in J Orbach mode as a benign gambling boss nicely center H Keller's trim 1950 programmer THE BLONDE BANDIT about trust in a morally ambiguous world as they are circled by the D.A., Mohr's squad, crooked undercover cops & a subjective camera
Had new writing go up on @InRO for subscribers on the Substack. Give it a look if 90s underground Chinese cinema is your thing or you checked out @samcmac's STRUCTURE. WAVE. YOUTH. CINEMA. series at the Spectacle Theater.
Link here: https://t.co/T6E1xVTnFM
when I talk about how relevant these films continually are to our present struggles, it’s both in large & small ways, for instance here’s Osha of UAW/MF talking about how protest marshals compromised the autonomy of streets actions so that they became easier targets for the pigs