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INTERNATIONAL WORKERS' DAY
Commemorating Danièle Huillet, and with Jean-Marie Straub now gone, a previously unpublished 1975 interview with them by John Hughes + Bill Krohn.
Revolving around: shot/reverse-shot, Israel, HISTORY LESSONS, Ford, MOSES UND ARON
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AS FILHAS DO FOGO (Pedro Costa, 2023) dates at Cannes –– screening with the new Wang Bing and the new Godard ––
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Jean-Marie Straub with Gorin and Huillet in a photo I took from the crowd at the Viennale, 2004.
At the moment I can't do anything but recall the howl described by Gorin in his description of Huillet's funeral in 2006 (see below)...
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Pedro Costa masterclass revolving around Où gît votre sourire enfoui (Where Lies Your Hidden Smile?) and Straub/Huillet. From the Mimesis FF, Boulder, Colorado, last week. 1h39min. Costa is rarely asked to speak on this film and the Straubs, so welcome...
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Jerry Lewis's THE DAY THE CLOWN CRIED (1972), which will finally see the light of day this year, ends with the title card:
IF ANOTHER MAN'S CHILD IS THREATENED AND YOU MOVE NOT TO PROTECT IT, THE CHILDREN OF *ALL* MEN ARE IN JEOPARDY AND YOU STAND AS GUILTY AS THOSE WHO THREATEN.
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The Cahiers are massive hypocrites. The combatants safely dead and silent, the journal feels it can put Straub/Huillet on its cover--with a militant phrase--when in their life
No cover for Empedokles
No cover for Antigone
No cover for Sicilia!
No cover for Operai Contadini
...
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Pedro Costa: "Guys like him (Paul Schrader) are dead. They count for nothing. They have nothing to give. These people are not in touch with any kind of reality."
With Paul Schrader’s OH, CANADA and Alex Ross Perry’s PAVEMENTS both premiering at
@TheNYFF
this week, it's a great time to revisit Perry's
@criterionchannl
original portrait of the ever-iconoclastic auteur, PAUL SCHRADER: MAN IN A ROOM.
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Good news: The Italian title of Jerry Lewis's masterpiece THE PATSY was a razz on Fellini's 8 1/2 👇
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Pedro Costa's inexhaustible CASA DE LAVA SCRAPBOOK finally in 2nd printing by the essential Pierre Von Kleist publishers (at reduced price) ––
hb, 144 pages
Includes booklet with Costa interview + text by Philippe Azoury (in portuguese, english, french).
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📣 The Official Selection of the 76th Festival de Cannes is growing!
Following the announcement of the feature films selected for the 76th Festival de Cannes on Thursday, April 13, here is the list of films that complete this
#Cannes2023
Selection ►
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Lynch vs. Costa on democracy of digital today
"it's just incredible!" vs. "it's completely dead"
from Sight & Sound, June '22,
Vol. 32, No. 5
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The New York Times obit of Straub is contemptuous.
It's clear the writer, a Style columnist not a film critic, has never seen a single film of theirs.
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.... the entire world h
angs on the election of a sole
individual
JLG
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––Kino Slang Quarantine is back...
CORNEILLE-BRECHT (2009, Jean-Marie Straub; versions A, B, C)
––available to view for free until May 11, 2022.
Presentation:
Directly to the film:
Further articles + Interview to come...
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I've waited many years to see this Peter Nestler film...
FOREIGNERS. PART 1. SHIPS AND CANNONS (Utlänningar. Del 1. Båtar och kanoner. 1977. Sweden. 44 minutes).
Screening online now, for free, in German with English subtitles:
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Pedro Costa's VITALINA VARELA streaming free through tomorrow—
Password: PC2020
Made possible by L.A. Times
#TheEnvelopeLive
and
@GhopperFilm
. There will be a Q&A with Costa and Times critic Justin Chang on youtube tomorrow, Feb 1, at 6 p.m. (PST).
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...a short, very moving text...
Teaching Symmetry:
On Pedro Costa’s As filhas do fogo
(The Daughters of Fire, 2023)
by Rinaldo Censi
Translated by Andy Rector and Tag Gallagher
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"the dramatis personae are white, never red, & Ford’s interest is with the traditions and community values that render otherwise decent individuals into willing agents of imperialism and genocide. "
– JOHN FORD'S INDIANS
by Tag Gallagher☘️🇵🇸
New on K.S
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🍀 Next week, for the first time in a decade, Tag Gallagher, the most singular film critic alive (prose, idea, heart) will be giving a series of public talks as part of the 🇵🇹 Cinemateca's HISTÓRIAS DO CINEMA cycle (Lisbon). The subject: JOHN FORD
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Take a look at the new Tag Gallagher website!
Tag, one of the greatest film critics of the past 50 years and the most original and free-thinking of them all, is very generous here... Many many articles, essays, 2 whole books, nearly all his video essays...
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Rivette was there in 1976 with DUELLE, making this Lincoln Center post stink of propaganda at this particular moment.
Jacques Rivette outside the Walter Reade Theater in 2001, attending NYFF for the first time. He said he came to show his support for a post-9/11 New York.
Rivette's L'AMOUR FOU is now playing in our theaters in a beautiful new 4K restoration! Get 🎟️:
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WHERE ARE WE GOING TO LIVE?
A Film Series on Housing Problems
programmed by Andy Rector
One week, 17 films.
Starting tomorrow in Lisbon at Cinema Ideal
OCTOBER 12 - 18, 9pm, 5€
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Kino Slang Quarantine
First program beginning tomorrow
World premiere of a new Straub film
on the blog —>
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Straub at work, always...
Interview with Straub by Dominique Villain on CORNEILLE-BRECHT (2009). On the work necessary to avoid "trampling on the text and using it as a springboard to express (your) personal petty bourgeois sentiments."
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Trailer for Godard's TRAILER OF A MOVIE THAT WILL NEVER EXIST: "PHONY WARS" ––
grâce à
Yivizz S'ain't Law Rent.
"Phony Wars" not "Funny Wars" for "Drôles de Guerres". Better? JLG may've been saying "Phony" in English in the Kerala interview. A phonics.
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May Day: three texts by, of, and on the work of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub ––
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"Godard chose Delon so that he could be free to film the trees."
« Godard a choisi Delon pour être libre de filmer les arbres. »
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....high bridges, hours between night and morning, long winter time...
"All these are dangerous!
For in view of all this misery
People just throw
in a few seconds time
Their unbearable lives away."
Viennale 2023 trailer. New film by Pedro Costa––
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this entire 75-minute talk is Jer at his most total
Jerry Lewis defends Charlie Chaplin’s A Countess from Hong Kong (1967) at a college seminar in London
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@labuzamovies
Here is just one memo from Ford noting sound adjustments for THE SEARCHERS. If Wayne's gun cock is not heard during the raid on the Indians, one can assume it wasn't oversight but emphatic.
Removing dust from the image and wind from the sound won't get you into heaven.
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Merry Christmas and Peace on Earth to All !
A little gift: Leo McCarey's melancholy TV episode for "Screen Directors Playhouse" (26 min), written by Mary McCarey (Leo's daughter), about a couple's divorce between two Christmas's. The ending is sublime...
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An aside by Thom Andersen while introducing a film of landscapes, TOO EARLY, TOO LATE (Huillet/Straub), paraphrasing: "The trend of younger people investing in property is regrettable. (With concern in his voice) That means there's more landlords to kill when the revolution comes
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RIP Comolli...
on TO BE OR NOT TO BE (Lubitsch, 1942) and HANGMEN ALSO DIE (Lang, 1943), a life-changing text.
A film critic who immediately engages you in a real problem every time out...
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screening today...
FILM ANNONCE DU FILM QUI N'EXISTERA JAMAIS: «Drôles de guerres» (Godard)
+
AS FILHAS DO FOGO (Pedro Costa)
(excerpt KHAN KHANNE aka Lettre filmée de Jean-Luc Godard à Gilles Jacob et Thierry Frémaux; 2014)
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Pedro Costa denounced all this in an Expresso interview several weeks ago, regarding the production-side corporate takeovers in Portugal (thankfully it's unimaginable that the Cinemateca Portuguesa would serve Netflix, at least under the current leadership of José Manuel Costa).
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New Interview with Christophe Clavert on his work as cinematographer & collaborator with Jean-Marie Straub.
Part of Kino Slang's presentation of Straub's CORNEILLE-BRECHT ('09). We've extended our run of the film for one more week, until May 16th, 2022 !
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@labuzamovies
Image aside, this technocratic shit is totally illegitimate: "Overall noise was also reduced to make the dialog more present. Some missing sound effects were added (Wayne gun cock)... The rumble of the wind on the boom mic was removed...to better understand the dialog."
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JEAN LOUIS SCHEFER. The only critic/film theorist comparable to Lautréamont, good lord.
The very idea 'film theorist' seems dead and belabored since reading his 1980 book L'homme ordinaire du cinéma [The Ordinary Man of Cinema]...
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Beautiful short essay on Peter Nestler's PICASSO IN VALLAURIS (2021) by Libertad Gills (a welcome Kino Slang guest contributor) reminding one to see the film while it's still online for free (until Jan. 30)...
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For the record:
By popular demand the one-week run (April 5 - 12) of Jean-Marie Straub's LA FRANCE CONTRE LES ROBOTS has been extended indefinitely! The film will remain on Kino Slang in its English subtitled version as long as the site exists...
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MOSES UND ARON (1975, Straub, Huilllet)
35mm at the Cinemateca Portuguesa, Lisboa
@cinemateca_prog
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KINO SLANG turns 18 years old today
nothing has changed
"Things don't work out the way you plan 'em. You dream of your little girl becoming a great dancer, and she winds up a nurse in a hospital." (GLORY ALLEY)
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Víctor Erice on Pedro Costa and HORSE MONEY (2014)...
Written on the occasion of Costa's exhibition 'Companhia', Serralves Museum, Porto, 2018
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the best interview I've read since Godard's death...
thank you
@dima_flavia
for your beautiful telling of it
In October, I had the occasion to interview Fabrice Aragno, Jean-Luc Godard's closest collaborator in the latter years of his life, at the
@Viennale
. We discussed about Droles de Guerres, Godard's last film completed during his lifetime -
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Godard news:
« À vendredi Robinson », the new film by Mitra Farahani, an encounter & letters between Godard & Ebrahim Golestan, will premiere at Berlinale in Feb. Farahani's 2013 film FIFI HOWLS FROM HAPPINESS, on the Iranian painter Mohassess, was a small masterpiece. High hopes
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Soft-pedaling the horrible news of the Cinemathèque Française collaborating with Netflix, an obvious bow to cultural imperialism, under cover of Agnès Varda...
Bolstering its support of
@cinemathequefr
as a major sponsor,
@netflix
is backing such upcoming retrospectives as Viva Varda!, running from October 11 through January 28.
@DEADLINE
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Sinho Baessa de Pina, who played the "Gulbenkian Security Guard" in COLOSSAL YOUTH, grew up in Fontaínas, was moved to Boba housing project (as in the film), & is now a community pillar/organizer there, & agit for
#VIDAJUSTA
. He will join us to introduce COLOSSAL YOUTH tonight➡️
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FÜR EINE KOMMUNISTISCHE UTOPIE––
great Straub/Huillet retrospective at the Munich Filmmuseum, April 7-9, 2023.
program with introduction by Barbara Ulrich:
website:
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A small 1966 masterpiece by Jean-Claude Biette has been made available on Henri, his (earliest?) short ECCO HO LETTO, made during his time in Rome.
In French and Italian, with French subtitles.
En Henri (
@cinemathequefr
) se puede ver en streaming una nueva película de Jean-Claude Biette, ECCO HO LETTO. Con Isabel Ruth, ni más ni menos
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Top 30 films I'll remember seeing in 2022.
Includes revival screenings on 35mm (Academy Museum, Cinemateca Portuguesa), films officially made available online for the first time (Henri, etc.), unofficially on the underground trade, or a filthy link sent by a friend in the night.
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@feuilladist
It will sound like I'm making this up, but Straub/Huillet and Godard objected to this very scene, saying the mismatching (the reactions do not correspond to the talk) was egregious. A protest letter to Libé maybe, I can't remember. It's a general problem with this film.
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R.I.P. Sollers.
Lettre de Jean-Luc Godard à G.K. Galabov et Sophie Zhang, après réception du film Mouvement ( – cité dans Le Livre d'image), pour la parution du roman de Philippe Sollers.
Sollers sur JLG/JLG:
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QUESTION: Cinema has ossified...
HENRI LANGLOIS: It's not hardened arteries, it's murder. No comparison. Film is being murdered in a marvelous way, like Othello when he snuffed out his wife with a pillow. That way we can't cry murder, because there's no blood.
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From a text I wrote in May this year on Straub's SCHAKALE UND ARABER (JACKALS AND ARABS), just published in Balthazar no. 9, 2023 (bilingual Danish/English), a lengthy and rich dossier dedicated to the work of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub.
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It's the 125th anniversary of Eisenstein !
(A drawing of mine after STRIKE, 1925)
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The S&S film list of one of the most singular writers in Portugal, Cristina Fernandes, is specifically a "list for difficult times".
(Rare to have a bit from her in English.)
"...there is some hope, though not where we would expect and perhaps not for us."
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NUTTY PROFESSOR, 35mm, CP, Lisboa––One realizes, as one couldn't on video or w/o fellow spectators, the first + last frames of the fiction are blasts of projector beam, emulsionless frames; first Kelp's explosion, last his knocking over the camera. Jer, forever Mister Apparatus.
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From Bill:
"When Darryl Zanuck asked Fuller what he wanted to do next, Fuller said he wanted to make 'a movie about a hooker, a pickpocket and the lowest form of life on Earth, a paid police informant.'
Zanuck said, 'Who do we pull for?'
Fuller said, 'Those three people.'"
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your auteur movie bumping may cause howls of horror from Mattel workers already working three times the legal limit of overtime in China
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JLG is sorely missed at our current moment in history, for the daring he displayed in undertaking this particular project, but also for the decades of beautiful reflections on the fate of the Palestinian people that would proceed it.
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1.5 hours with Uncle JLG.
Thank you IFFK,
#Kerala
, C S Venkiteswaran!
#iffk2021
#JeanLucGodard
#25thIFFK
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Three Bill Krohn texts on Monte Hellman...
1) A 2017 email to me from Bill on Monte's work
2) On the enormous IGUANA (1988)
3) On SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT 3: BETTER WATCH OUT! (1989) and Hollywood sequels from
@cahierscinema
(1st time pub'd in English)
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In his article on Kino Slang, Bill Krohn describes Karlson's 1-hour Monogram THE MISSING LADY (1946) as "a dirty Borgesian romp".
Bill's not just making up these phrases...
MISSING LADY:
Phil Karlson Confidential by Bill Krohn:
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"We do everything for this art, but this art isn’t everything" - on Huillet and Straub by George Clark and Redmond Entwistle
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"Cinema is the country that is missing from my map. We now wonder if it is an empire, a nation, or a province." –– Daney
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Missing Godard news.
This synopsis, signed JLG, for FILM ANNONCE DU FILM « DRÔLES DE GUERRES » (1ER TOURNAGE), was published here yesterday:
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How were the Straubs treated? Pedro Costa tells me the SICILIA! interview was cut in half, devil may care. The interviews progressively got smaller--an inset within a page, sub-petit journal--when not totally dried up during Straub's fruitful later years working in video.
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"...a political act and collective shroud."
–– Thierry Frémaux
THE DAUGHTERS OF FIRE (2023, Pedro Costa)
world premiere at Cannes today, Monday, 6PM
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pour Samuel Bréan
(
@YosemiteBailey
)
R.I.P.
A heaven-sent scholar & gentleman of cine. . .
the most generous, always there with the text, the derivation, the erudition, the translation, one wished for. . .
all goodwill. . .
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