SHOOTING AT WARS: Three Views THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS Gillo Pontecorvo Antonio Musu Franco Solinas Marcello Gatti Mario Serandrei Mario Morra Ennio Morricone FAR FROM VIETNAM Alain Resnais William Klein Joris Ivens Agnes Varda Claude Lelouch Jean-Luc Godard Chris Marker LES CARABINIERS Jean-Luc Godard Georges de Beauregard Roberto Rossellini Jean Gruault Benjamin Joppolo Raoul Coutard HOW I WON THE WAR Richard Lester Charles Wood Patrick Ryan David Watkin Ken Thorne

1967 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 27-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Max Kozloff ◽  
William Johnson ◽  
Richard Corliss
2017 ◽  
pp. 118-136
Author(s):  
Steven Jacobs ◽  
Lisa Colpaert

The statue is a significant motif in many key films of the European modernist cinema of the 1950s and 1960s. Famous examples are Les Statues meurent aussi (Alain Resnais and Chris Marker, 1953), Viaggio in Italia (Roberto Rossellini, 1953), L’Année dernière à Marienbad (Alain Resnais, 1961), La Jetée (Chris Marker, 1962), Jules et Jim (François Truffaut, 1962), Méditerranée ( Jean-Daniel Pollet, 1963), Le Mépris ( Jean-Luc Godard, 1963), Il Gattopardo (Luchino Visconti, 1963), Une Femme mariée ( Jean-Luc Godard, 1964), Gertrud (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1964), and Vaghe stelle dell’orsa (Luchino Visconti, 1965). Focusing on Rossellini’s Viaggio in Italia (Journey to Italy, 1953) and Resnais’ L’Année dernière à Marienbad (Last Year in Marienbad, 1961) as cases in point, this chapter not only traces the fascination for sculpture in modernist cinema but also explains it by examining the ways in which statues are presented as tokens of death, time, history, myth, memory, the human body, and strategies of doubling – important topics for many of the leading modernist directors working in the 1950s and 1960s.


Arts ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 57
Author(s):  
Miguel Muñoz-Garnica

Nobuhiro Suwa, often called “the most French of Japanese directors”, has a complex relationship with European cinematic modernity. His two feature films H Story (2001) and A Perfect Couple (2005) can provide useful case studies, as they were created in dialogue with two key references of that modernity: Hiroshima mon amour (1959, Alain Resnais) and Journey to Italy (Viaggio in Italia, 1954, Roberto Rossellini), respectively. Both films tend to confront and gloss their previous pairs, but they are also continuations of their concerns and their aesthetical discoveries. The presence of intertextuality elements connecting those films, as well as the use of myse en abyme structures are deeply analyzed in this article to attain a greater understanding on how this process of transcultural dialogue works. Besides, both films exemplify different ways of developing the references on which they are built, namely deconstruction for H Story and reconstruction for A Perfect Couple.


2012 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 26-43
Author(s):  
Georges Didi-Huberman

Ausgehend vom Standpunkt eines visuellen und kognitiven Experimentierens beschäftigt sich der Beitrag mit der Arbeit André Malraux’ zu den Illustrationen seines Musée imaginaire. Es handelt sich um eine Arbeit, die explizit vom Benjamin der »technischen Reproduzierbarkeit« und des »Autors als Produzenten« inspiriert ist. Studiert wird die Öffnung des imaginären Feldes, wie sie die Praxis des Kunstbuchs – als einem Album, das von einer Art Expressivität der Rahmung, Beleuchtung und Montage getragen wird – bei Malraux nahelegt. Durch diese Praxis der Montage konstruiert Malraux die Autorität seines visuellen Stils und die Schließung seines literarischen Feldes. Vor allem aber setzt sich der Beitrag – auf kritische Weise – mit dem anti-historischen und anti-politischen Zielpunkt seiner Ästhetik auseinander, die von Benjamin weit entfernt zu stehen kommt. Am Schluss steht der Vergleich zwischen zwei zeitgenössischen Werken, Le Musee imaginaire de la sculpture mondiale von Malraux und Les Statues meurent aussi, einem Film von Chris Marker und Alain Resnais.<br><br>Our paper deals with the work of André Malraux on the illustrations for his Musée imaginaire from the point of view of visual and cognitive experimentation. This work is explicitly inspired by the Benjamin of the »technical reproducibility« and the »author as producer.« We examine the opening of the imaginary field, as it is suggested by the praxis of the art book – an album of images that is supported by a certain kind of expressivity of framing, illumination and montage – in Malraux. Through this praxis of montage, Malraux constructs the authority of his visual style and the closure of the literary field. Above all, however, we discuss critically the anti-historical and anti-political destiny of his aesthetics, which in the end is quite far from Benjamin’s, and we conclude with a comparison between two contemporary artworks, namely Malraux’ Le Musee imaginaire de la sculpture mondiale and Les Statues meurent aussi, a film by Chris Marker and Alain Resnais.


Author(s):  
Steven Jacobs ◽  
Sofie Verdoodt

Chris Marker is a pseudonym of Christian François Bouche-Villeneuve (b. 1921, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France–d. 2012, Paris, France), a French director, screenwriter, photographer, editor, writer, and multimedia artist. A major figure in the history of both experimental and documentary film, Marker turned out to be a mythic artist, who is always elusive about his past—even his place of birth is highly disputed (Ulan Bator, Mongolia, and Belleville, Paris compete with Neuilly-sur-Seine). In addition, Marker was known to refuse interviews and not allow photographs to be taken of him (though these claims are not entirely accurate). After studying philosophy prior to World War II, an involvement in the French Resistance during the German occupation, and having joined the United States Air Force as a paratrooper, Marker emerged as an intellectual, journalist, writer, and photographer in Paris in the 1940s. Already he showed a particular interest in filmmaking and he eventually made his debut as a filmmaker in 1952 with a documentary of the Helsinki Olympic Games. Soon after, he collaborated with Alain Resnais on Les Statues meurent aussi—both Marker and Resnais became key members (next to Agnès Varda, Jean Rouch, and Marguerite Duras) of the so-called Rive Gauche group. From the 1950s onward, Marker made seminal documentary essay films such as Dimanche à Pékin, Lettre de Sibérie, and Le Joli Mai. In 1962, he became known internationally for the short La Jetée (The Pier), which consists of still photographs. After his involvement in collective and radical filmmaking for SLON and ISKRA in the period 1967–1974, Marker made Sans Soleil, his best-known and most widely seen essay film that combines documentary and fiction. Already interested in the interactions between various media from the beginning of his career, Marker also developed into a leading video and multimedia artist beginning in the 1980s.


Fine Cuts ◽  
2006 ◽  
pp. 60-64
Author(s):  
Roger Crittenden
Keyword(s):  

Designio ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-103
Author(s):  
Edwin Culp Morando
Keyword(s):  

En este texto se analiza la relación entre mirada y memoria en el cine como una serie de interacciones que tienen lugar en las superficies de sus imágenes y recuerdos. Ante aquellas experiencias empobrecidas por la aniquilación del pasado en la guerra, por la desesperanza e imposibilidad de imaginar el porvenir o la desazón por la desconexión del mundo, el cine puede volcar la mirada a la virtualidad. Puede dar a ver ahí, donde ya solo pueden verse destellos; puede hacernos recordar incluso aquello que nunca hemos vivido. A partir del análisis de tres (3) películas célebres por las relaciones que establecen entre imagen, mirada y recuerdo, pero también por las experiencias que narran; La jetée (1962) del director Chris Marker, Hiroshima, mon amor (1959) de Alain Resnais, y Le Fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain (2001) dirigida por el director Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Así, el autor produce una caracterización de algunos fenómenos que se dan al nivel de la superficie de la imagen.


2015 ◽  
pp. 85-101
Author(s):  
Didier Coureau

Cet article s’inscrit dans le prolongement d’une recherche que je mène depuis une vingtaine d’années sur les rapports entre cinéma et pensée. En m’appuyant en particulier sur les réflexions de Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Edgar Morin, j’ai ainsi pu créer les concepts de « complexité esthétique », « noosphère filmique », « cinématographie des flux ». Suite à l’évocation de créateurs-penseurs du cinéma muet d’avant-garde (Epstein, Dulac, Artaud), sont ici abordés des films d’Amos Gitaï, Chris Marker, Jean-Luc Godard, Alain Resnais et Andreï Tarkovski. L’intitulé, « Les métaphores filmiques du cerveau » indique que l’approche de la relation cinéma-cerveau est d’ordre philosophique, mais également d’ordre poétique. Si le cinéma est à même de donner forme à la pensée, il invente aussi des circuits cérébraux — sonores et visuels — qui lui permettent de devenir forme « pensante ».


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