March 2012
2 posts
“It’s complicated. It’s not a bad thing that we wish to do good in...”
– @TejuCole
Super fiction
tooearlytoolate:
- Jacques Rivette, from “Texts and Interviews” (edited by Jonathan Rosenbaum)
January 2012
1 post
“The best Ashberry poems, I thought, although not in these words, describe what...”
– Ben Lerner, Leaving the Atocha Station. (via emissions)
November 2011
3 posts
What is nearness... →
timeimmemorial:
What is nearness if it fails to come about despite the reduction of the longest distances to the shortest intervals? What is nearness if it is even repelled by the restless abolition of distances? What is nearness if, along with its failure to appear, remoteness also remains absent?
What is happening here when, as a result of the abolition of great distances, everything is...
“A film by the Straubs is always a way of placing bodies that recite texts in a...”
– JACQUES RANCIÈRE (via)
October 2011
4 posts
Elusive Lucidity: Sympton and Theme →
“Nothing exists.
If anything exists, it is incomprehensible.
If anything was...”
– Gorgias (via emissions)
September 2011
5 posts
“A film about imperialism, told from the inside, would on the surface appear to...”
– (@dmcdougall)
3 tags
“I’d rather people feel a film before understanding it.”
– Robert Bresson
“This idea of ‘if you give a man a fish, them you feed him for a day; but...”
– - Raj Patel, “The Value of Nothing”
12/1/09
August 2011
5 posts
“You can still accomplish some revolutions in film, but not in life I’m...”
– Pedro Costa, via Landscape Suicide / dias felizes
“[I]n reality there is no tree—there is, however, the pear tree, and apple tree,...”
– Pier Paolo Pasolini (via)
“I always say a film should have a personality. And like a person, if he or she...”
– - Apichatpong Weerasethakul (via time being)
“Realistic means: discovering the causal complexes of society / unmasking the...”
– Brecht, to Lukács (1938)
[via Matthew Flanagan, here]
1 tag
July 2011
5 posts
“It’s easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.”
– Anton Chekhov, Letter to A.S. Suvorin (January 2, 1894). (via blackmarksonpaper)
“When in 1784 Kant asked, Was heisst Aufklarung?, he meant, What’s going on right...”
– The Subject and Power, Michel Foucault. (via nonchalantlybogus)
June 2011
3 posts
KINO SLANG (June 6, 2011) →
telaroli:
“Without the cabarets, wouldn’t the government be overthrown every Tuesday? Fortunately, on Tuesday, this people is dulled, has slept off it’s pleasure, has not a penny left, and returns to work, to dry bread, stimulated by a need for material reproduction that has become a habit for it.”
- from Honoré de Balzac’s “The Girl With The Golden Eyes”
“[Hölderlin’s] only successes are the points where his poems go on, falter,...”
– Beckett in 1955, quoted in Beckett’s German Diaries by Mark Nixon. (via ofresonance)
May 2011
1 post
“‘What do you think will become the driving force for the development of films in...”
– The great filmmaker Jia Zhang-ke, from his essay “The Age of Amateur Cinema Will Return” (via cmasonwells)
December 2010
2 posts
“I think that the role of the cinema is to be open to the outside world, to show...”
– Eric Rohmer (via)
“The west has fiscalised its basic power relationships through a web of...”
– Julian Assange (via nonchalantlybogus)
November 2010
4 posts
magnificent_obsessions: My Son, Your latest... →
telaroli:
My Son,
Your latest letter, like our last interview, was unsatisfactory. As usual, there was your own natural—I want to say willful—difficulty and reticence and my own inclination to want to seize a certain pass and plow through various recurrent objections, which, as I see it, are just…
telaroli:
from “La Vallé Close” (Jean-Clause Rousseau, 2000)
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telaroli:
“to let a sentence unfold
over an hour
or a season”
– Red Thread(s)
September 2010
1 post
“Wandering through the Forum, gazing upon the new excavations, the marvel that...”
– Leon Edel, on Henry James’ response to the ruins of Rome.
August 2010
2 posts
“I should like to be of use as a doctor or a farmer and at the same time to be...”
– Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak
American Roulette: Distinguished Only By Their... →
“I’m talking about 1981 or 1982, when I was living like a recluse in a house outside Gerona, with no money and no prospect of ever having any, and literature was a vast minefield occupied by enemies, except for a few classic authors (just a few), and every day I had to walk through that minefield, where any false move could be fatal, with only the poems of Archilochus to guide me. It’s like...
July 2010
4 posts
Mamihlapinatapai
Mamihlapinatapai (sometimes spelled mamihlapinatapei) is a word from the Yaghan language of Tierra del Fuego, listed in The Guinness Book of World Records as the “most succinct word”, and is considered one of the hardest words to translate. It describes “a look shared by two people with each wishing that the other will initiate something that both desire but which neither one...
madlangbayan:
There is a silence that will never speak to us again.
May 2010
1 post
“Non plus des choses définies, mais ce qu’il y a entre elles.”
– dias felizes
April 2010
2 posts
ENDGAME
CLOV: [Admiringly] Well I never! In spite of everything you were able to get on with it!
HAMM: [Modestly] Oh not very far, you know, not very far, but nevertheless, better than nothing.
CLOV: Better than nothing? Is it possible?
March 2010
4 posts
“… Suddenly an experience of disinterested observation opens in its centre...”
– John Berger, Field, 1971
(via dias felizes)
“Cage: Well the most important piece is my silent piece, 4’33”.
...”
– John Cage at Seventy: An Interview, by Stephen Montague
via dias felizes
February 2010
1 post
“Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love...”
– Henry David Thoreau (via theimpossiblecool)