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From Benjamin's diaries, 1934:
25 August. A Brechtian maxim: "Don’t start from the good old things but the bad new ones."
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- Not one of Godard's best essays, but one of his best lines: "Hitchcock lets the wires show too much. But because he shows them, they are no longer wires"
the man who knew too much is major hitch - What is to be done? 1. We must make political films 2. We must make films politically
- Deleuze weighing in on laughing during screenings
Deleuze on movie theaters - In 1963, the editors at Cahiers du cinema asked some of their contributors to list the top ten American films of the sound era. Here are some of the ballots.
- From what I believe is Peter Watkin's last film project (of sorts), Lithuania 2001
00:00 - Godard in 2019 on his relationships with Rivette, Truffaut, and Rohmer in the 50s
- In addition to his role in Glauber Rocha's The Lion Has Seven Heads, Jean-Pierre Léaud also played in Carlos Diegues' film Os Herdeiros (1969) - RIP
- Godard in 2014, asked if he has any close relationships left in the film/art world
- I’ve learned a lot from Truffaut’s film criticism, and this rejection of the “critic-as-editor” is one of the most basic lessons I always carry with me
