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...Basically the course is trying to inquire into and see the fit between two different disciplines of observation, anthropology and cinema," says Gardner, whose recent movie "Forests of Bliss" is now showing in New York. In addition to Gardner's film, the class will view such classics as "Man with a Camera" and "Nanook of the North...
Cavell said that while people often find it "too hard to believe in the seriousness of the enjoyable," the contribution of such American melodramas to world cinema is actually as great as the contribution of Mark Twain and Ralph Waldo Emerson to world literature...
...CINEMA LAND, the line between fantasy and reality is particularly thin and fragile, like a strip of celluloid viewed edgewise. Movies are supposed to imitate life, but they merely imitate other movies. If you doubt this, try counting the number of times Shane, The Front Page or The Maltese Falcon have been rehashed. It's often left up to reality to conform to the images we see on our movie or TV screens, sometimes in very perverse ways...
...falsity) of these pictures must be looked for in the staging and cutting of the subsequent shoot-outs and chases. In judging those, the brain gratefully surrenders to the viscera. In a sense, these films, so dependent for their success on mastery of movie technique, represent one of cinema's purest forms. And all action movies may aspire to be judged not on the basis of how well they imitate life, but on how well they imitate the genre's ideal form--a Road Runner cartoon...
...sure, the Senate is not planning to treat viewers to cinema verite. There will be no panning shots of the near empty rows of desks, no cutaways to Senators yawning or fidgeting. To try to add some suspense to roll-call votes, a clock showing the countdown to the 15-minute limit on voting time flashes occasionally on the screen. In reality, the Senate is not the least bit bound by the 15-minute limit, so the TV clock will disappear after 14 minutes have passed...