tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-163985712012-02-14T08:53:45.014+01:00Basic instructions for cinephiles open to critical thinking, world culture, art and cinema languageHarryTuttlenoreply@blogger.comBlogger4711100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16398571.post-49550405813719949212012-02-14T08:12:00.000+01:002012-02-14T08:53:45.027+01:00

 Fiction : Tree of Life (2011/Malick/USA) *no dinosaur was harmed during this movie* Real World (Africa wild life) *no animal was harmed during this movie*

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"« Qui es-tu pour juger ? » est donc une manière de laisser savoir qu’il n’y a plus de hiérarchie des valeurs ; attitude par excellence de l’abdication et de l’indifférenciation qui permet d’éviter toute confrontation, tout débat réel, tout choc culturel ou idéologique, et qui permet de s’enfermer dans ses certitudes individuelles. [..] Cette attitude est liée à un phénomène historique bien

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Rotterdam Film Festival Highlights with IndieWire (Press Play)/Slant Magazine (House Next Door)/Cine Qua Non 3 february 2012 video mini-roundtable 15'21' with Michal Oleszczyk (House Next Door), Aaron Cutler (Slant/Cine qua non), Kevin B. Lee (IndieWIRE/RogerEbert.com) These films are unfamiliar, without buzz, without pre-approved fame... let's give them a chance for what they are. Finally

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THE PROBLEM OF THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE OSCAR AWARD... Source: The Academy's Lousy Foreign Film Policy (Analysis) (Stephen Galloway; The Hollywood Reporter; 13 Jan 2012) / Oscar Smackdown: THR's Stephen Galloway Squares Off with AMPAS Committee Chair Over 'Lousy' Foreign Film Policy (Todd Gilchrist; The Hollywood Reporter; 2 Feb 2012) video debate 39' Stephen Galloway (skeptic; THR) vs. Mark

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"The [Cannes] festival is something of France’s answer to the Oscars (more so than the Césars, its annual film awards) and a modest bulwark against Hollywood hegemony." Unwelcome Guest of Honor at Festivals (Manohla Dargis; NYT; 30 September 2011)  For the FESTIVAL SEASON, here is a crash course in world cinema institutions for the clueless NYT's co-editor in chief : Oscars (Foreign

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Les Algériens : Conférence de Gilles Manceron 1 février 2012 (forumdesimages) 1h19' Conférence de Gilles Manceron, historien et vice-président de la Ligue des droits de l’Homme Coauteur avec Fatima Benaci-Lancou de plusieurs ouvrages sur les harkis (notamment “Les harkis, histoire, mémoire et transmission” – Éd. de l’Atelier, 2010), Gilles Manceron a publié “La triple occultation d’un massacre

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FIGURE SKATING Old system (until 2005) detailing individual judges notes (1997 European Figure Skating Championships; Paris) : Meaning of the marks : 0 = not skated ; 1 = very poor ; 2 = poor ; 3 = mediocre ; 4 = good ; 5 = very good ; 6 = perfect and faultless Average mark (mean) for Technical Merit : 5.73 | Standard Deviation for Technical Merit : 0.1 Average mark (mean) for Presentation

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This exceptional "festival" organised every year (15th edition) by French cultural newspaper Télérama, brings back on COMMERCIAL screens (that participate to the event, it is more than 1 event in one museum where films get only screened once by an art-friendly institution and only in NYC for example...) for a week the "best films" of the previous year. The choices are Télérama's taste,

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Top10 Epic Fails of 2011 for the Film Press : "One thing I truly believe is that real critics and real cinephiles should have absolutely no track with common sense" (Adrian Martin Ph.D) PURE BULLSHIT (BRAINWASHING) "We should give the audience the tools to quit their jobs so they can devote their life to cinema" (Chris Fujiwara) PURE BULLSHIT (DELUSION) "Meek's Cutoff is a waste of everyone's

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Movies shan't ruin your personal fun again ! Because the customer is always right. (sarcasm intended) Related : American Fatalism 3 (Ebert)  Deficiant Subjectivity  Dan Kois syndrome 1-2 Overlong Entertainment  "Boring" is not a critical argument / Long and boring art movies (Guardian) Boredom (Charney) / On being bored (Phillips) “La Peur de l'Ennui” (anonymous Cahiers reader) “L'Ennui

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"6. Lack of choice. Box-office tracking shows that the bright spot in 2011 was the performance of indie, foreign or documentary films. On many weekends, one or more of those titles captures first-place in per-screen average receipts. Yet most moviegoers outside large urban centers can't find those titles in their local gigantiplex. Instead, all the shopping center compounds seem to be showing

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"[..] The notion that distribution is a hard-headed enterprise is correct. But the assertion that this leads to real competition is ludicrous - it ensures market domination by US producers. For all the blathering to the effect that US audiences have no interest in foreign film, in addition to university screenings across the thousands of US colleges, there is a vast array of small companies

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This is what some 92 American movie reviewers believe ARE the best films of 2011 (or more exactly the ones that American distributors agreed to buy last year, which is a different matter altogether). This is not a selection imposed to them by the European elite, they chose these willingly and ended up with this consensus. Even if American critics love to remind that there is hardly 15 or

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What does a bill like PIPA/SOPA mean to our shareable world? At the TED offices, Clay Shirky delivers a proper manifesto -- a call to defend our freedom to create, discuss, link and share, rather than passively consume. * * * 19 January 2012 : FBI shuts down megaupload / Anonymous retaliates / Megaupload song Related: HADOPI (France) [PDF] DMCA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act 1998) [PDF

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Histoire de la cinéphilie  (La Fabrique de l'Histoire; France Culture; 16 jan 2012) partie 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 1. Grand témoin Philippe Cassard 16-01-2012 [MP3] 54' Pour débuter cette semaine, nous recevons le pianiste classique Philippe Cassard, interprète de Debussy et de Schubert, qui vient de publier chez Capricci un dialogue avec Marc Chevrie et Jean Narboni. Ils y discutent du rapport de la

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Source: Uniform prices for differentiated goods: The case of the movie-theater industry (Barak Y. Orbach, Liran Einav; 2007; International Review of Law and Economics [PDF] UNIFORM PRICES FOR DIFFERENTIATED GOODS: THE CASE OF THE MOVIE-THEATER INDUSTRY (Liran Einav, Barak Y. Orbach; Discussion Paper No. 337; 10/2001; Harvard) [PDF] The Exhibition side gets the largest share (45%) of

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"Dujardin Forever", conférence de Carole Desbarats 30 juin 2011 (forumdesimages) 1h18' Quel que soit le rôle qu’il endosse, lorsqu’il est connu du public et qu’il arrive sur l’écran, un acteur est traversé par les personnages qu’il a incarnés auparavant. Cela diffuse discrètement, et puis, si l’interprétation est forte, disparaît au profit du nouveau personnage pour parfois faire retour au

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Cours de cinéma par Jean-Baptiste Thoret : Gilles Deleuze, "crise de l'image action" 9 Oct 2009 (forumdesimages) 1h20' présenté par Jean-Baptiste Thoret. Spécialiste du Nouvel Hollywood et du cinéma de genre, Jean-Baptiste Thoret est critique à Charlie Hebdo et chroniqueur à France Culture. Gilles Deleuze clôt “L’Image-Mouvement” par un chapitre, “La crise de l’image-action”, dans lequel, à

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- Cultural Diversity Awareness -  "In sum, for me, the emphasis on small nationhood is about: understanding the challenges that small-nation filmmakers face highlighting the extent to which a large number of these challenges are shared challenges encouraging filmmakers to look for the opportunities that may be implicit in the constraints they encounter encouraging small-nation filmmakers to

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Trafic, 20 ans, 20 films (centrepompidou)  Trafic, 20 ans 20 films Centre Georges Pompidou, 11-30 Jan 2012 [catalogue PDF] 11 Janvier 2012 : Saltimbank, 2002, Jean-Claude Biette + "Sierra de Teruel, 1939" de Victor Erice  [intro video]En présence de Víctor Erice (sous réserve), Raymond Bellour, Jean-Christophe Bouvet, Pierre Léon, Paul Otchakovsky-Laurens, Sylvie Pierre et Patrice Rollet 12

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Conférence sur "La trilogie Jason Bourne"... 9 avril 2011 (forumdesimages) 1h26'  The Bourne Trilogy est en français la trilogie Dans la peau : "La Mémoire dans la peau" (Doug Liman, 2002), "La Mort dans la peau" (Paul Greengrass, 2004) et "La Vengeance dans la peau" (Paul Greengrass, 2007). Et le thème de cette intervention : comment la surveillance et les machines de l’espionnage s’effacent

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Authors@Google: Kyle Johnson 'Inception and Philosophy' 16 Dec 2011 (video) 43'  Inception and Philosophy : Ideas to die For (SYLVIA WENMACKERS, BERIT BROGAARD, NATHAN ANDERSEN, MICHAEL RENNETT, JANET TESTERMAN, DANIEL P. MALLOY, MARCUS SCHULZKE, JOSEPH GARVIN, THOMAS KAPPER, RANDALL E. AUXIER, EMILIE DIONNE, HIU M. CHAN, JOSHUA RICHARDSON AND ORA MCWILLIAMS, MATTHEW BROPHY, THORSTEN

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Best adjectival reviewing of 2011.  This really translates what the documentary is about.  Thanks movie marketing and movie reviewers!  (cynicism intended)

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Shamans · Animals A response to the Film Symposium "Ethics and Documentary Cinema" (31st October 2011) held at the China Independent Film Festival Documentary (Nanjin) Signed by several documentary filmmakers who participated and also who did not participate in the festival Demand that film critics buy their own DVDs (Xue Jianqiang)Reject how film critics have become the definers and

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Karin Chien : "It's a tough sell. Foreign language cinema is a tough sell in the US. Subtitles... Also there is no previous tradition of this kind of cinema showing in the US. So a large part of our mission is not only to distribute the films but to educate the audiences, to grow the audience, to create the audience for these films. I started my film career in Asian-American independent cinema.

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Philosophy of Film / MIT 24.213 (Prof. Irving Singer) During the fall of 2004, four sessions of 24.213 were recorded especially for OpenCourseWare. This course is a seminar on the philosophical analysis of film art, with an emphasis on the ways in which it creates meaning through techniques that define a formal structure. There is a particular focus on aesthetic problems about appearance and

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- Cultural Diversity Awareness - "It is rare that marquee international film events take place in China. That is in part because of the censorship imposed by the government. Then there are the tight limits on the importing and screening of foreign movies, which cast a shadow on attempts to bring new film experiences to China." "Streep and Coen Discuss Foreign Film in China" By Edward Wong (

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René Girard, philosophe français, né en 1923 StudioPhilo, n° 19, par Ollivier Pourriol, 2009 Ciné Philo 2 : Vertiges du désir, comprendre le désir par le cinéma; Ollivier Pourriol; 21 mai 2011; 252pp Fidèle à sa méthode consistant à faire dialoguer philosophie et cinéma, Ollivier Pourriol dévoile les grandes théories du désir à l'oeuvre dans des films aussi variés que Le Mépris, Kingdom

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Boredom is a subjective perception, and often deceiving. Spectators who complain about the length of a movie, only stigmatize the run time when the content is not stimulating enough for the limitation of their attention span. They never complain about the same characteristic (duration) in an exciting ENTERTAINMENT movie. So many of the most popular/successful movies exceed the standard

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Daniel Kahneman at Google Talks (Nov 2011) 1h02'  Daniel Kahneman, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his seminal work in psychology that challenged the rational model of judgment and decision making, is one of our most important thinkers. His ideas have had a profound and widely regarded impact on many fields—including economics, medicine, and politics—but until now, he has

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- Cultural Diversity Awareness - Cultural diversity : “the ethnically marked cultural differences associated with the international movement of peoples and, within national territories, the claims to difference associated with the protracted struggles of in situ minorities to maintain their identity and specificity in the face of the homogenizing force of national cultures” Differing

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Future of Cinema - Looking Forward After 30 Years from VIFF (3rd Oct 2011) 1h17'40" Panelists : Simon Field, film producer (eg. Uncle Boonmee), member of the ICA (Institute of contemporary Art, London), former director of International Film Festival Rotterdam, consultant to Dubai festival  Andréa Picard, film critic and programmer, formerly of the Toronto International Film Festival ("

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- Cultural Diversity Awareness -  Let's take a look at the monthly release batch on USA screens, for October 2011, the national month of "Cultural Diversity Awareness", supposedly (hopefully) the most diverse period for American distribution... ALL RELEASES USA Oct2011 (red=USA / colour=foreign) "LIMITED RELEASES" USA Oct2011 (black=USA / colour=foreign) Note that there are a lot of

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CNN believes Cannes is in Spain... Not only they placed Cannes 1200km off, but it's even outside of France, in Spain, on the wrong side of the land mass, on the Atlantic coast instead of the Mediterranean coast! WTF? I know the average American sucks in geography, so says the stereotype, but shouldn't people working in a major News network get screened for basic knowledge? Cannes is a

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-Cultural Diversity Awareness-  Trois conseils d'un ami américain. Un art de la guerre à l'usage des cinéastes français Bill Krohn (CinémAction, Quelle diversité face à Hollywood?; 2002) "[..] Ces petites salles sont la première ligne de défense du cinéma français et du cinéma du monde (world cinema), auquel on peut goûter à Paris comme nulle part au monde. chérissez-les et protégez-les;

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- Cultural diversity Awareness -  Movies and cultural diversity By Benoit Bouquin (eRenlai magazine; Taipei; 11 August 2008) [PDF] [..] So apart from the happy few who can spend their free time travelling around the world, most of us are condemned to rely on media if they wish to learn about other cultures. And here is the bug that bothers me: media are often a distorting mirror of foreign

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- Cultural Diversity Awareness - NY International Latino Film Festival  According to IMDb, 7 films (out of a total of 754 American films) were released in the USA in 2010, made in the Spanish language : Old Cats (2010/Pedro Peirano, Sebastián Silva/Chile/USA) Amexica (2010/Ron Krauss/USA) Un buen día (2010/Nicolás Del Boca/USA/Argentina) Señora Maestra (2010/Ricardo Perez-Roulet/USA)

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- Cultural diversity Awareness - DISTRIBUTION EXPORTS VIDEO Source : The Film Industry in the Russian Federation (European Audiovisual Observatory/Nevafilm; Sept 2010) [PDF]  Related: Cultural Diversity Awareness (series) Regional industries in India France Market shares 2010 / South Korea market shares 2010 / UK market shares 2009   EU admissions 1995-2008 / EU-USA

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- Cultural Diversity Awareness - France, safe haven for art cinéma, best economic system for independent cinema, most open-minded audience for foreign films and non-commercial films, is worried about the health of the film industry in France, and in the world. And in the USA, where the situation is MUCH MUCH MUCH worse for art cinema, cultural diversity, auteur liberty, independent cinema and

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- Cultural Diversity Awareness - Gavin Smith: "Regular readers may have noticed that over the years I've used these pages as a forum for grueling or sounding off about things. Many times, I've found myself casting about in desperation for a topic about which I can conceivably squeeze out 500 words or so - you gasp, but all too often that's what writing an editor's letter comes down to. And if

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-Cultural Diversity Awareness- Programmes de soutien français pour les films de la diversité culturelle : "Malgré les succès enregistrés, notamment au cinéma, ces dernières années, et un nombre toujours croissant de productions qui traitent de la diversité, nous devons encore convaincre de la vitalité artistique de ces projets et de la chance qu’ils représentent pour le renouvellement de la

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- Cultural Diversity Awareness -  FILM DISTRIBUTION * * * FILM PRODUCTION Source : NFDC / MIB (annual report 2011) / CBFC 2010 / UNESCO  Related: Cultural Diversity Awareness (series) Regional industries in India France Market shares 2010 / South Korea market shares 2010 / UK market shares 2009   EU admissions 1995-2008 / EU-USA market shares 2009 / Foreign

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Watch Life in a Day on YouTube (channel translated in 22 languages), 28 October 2011 (official website / FAQ) Life In A Day is a historic global experiment to create a user-generated feature film shot in a single day. On July 24, you have 24 hours to capture a glimpse of your life on camera. The most compelling and distinctive footage will be edited into a feature film by Joe Walker, produced

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-Cultural Diversity Awareness- "I do not defend protectionism, but I do defend the right of any state to promote its culture." Joseph Stiglitz, 2001 Nobel Prize winner for Economics * * * What is a cultural policy? (protected by the Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity, UNESCO 2001) Screening quotas for movies and nationally televised programs or broadcasting requirements for music

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-Cultural Diversity Awareness- Les nouveaux chemins de la connaissance (France Culture) 21-10-2011 [MP3] 59' Entretien de Philippe Petit avec Marie-José Mondzain, philosophe et écrivain, directeur de recherche au CNRS. Aujourd’hui nous allons parler de l’image, des images, nous allons parler du cinéma  en compagnie de Marie-José Mondzain, une philosophe qui n’aime pas qu’on l’affuble du nom de

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-Cultural Diversity Awareness- The Case For Global Film : a British website (ITP, in the picture) about "Discussing everything that isn’t Hollywood (and a little that is)" They are doing a series titled "Films from the South" this October 2011 (Oslo's 21st "Films From the South" festival) : Where Do We Go Now? (2011/Nadine Labaki/Lebanon/Fr/It/Egypt) Man Without a Cellphone / Bidoun Mobile 

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-Cultural Diversity Awareness- Cambodge : mémoires contemporaines, du documentaire à la fiction  Bibliothèque Publique d'Information, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. 10 Octobre 2011 [PDF] 2h18' video + MP3 Comment témoigner à chaud de guerres civiles ou de conflits? Le silence et l’oubli sont souvent considérés comme les conditions du retour à la paix. Mais lorsque l’apaisement repose sur

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Related: Cultural Diversity Awareness (series) To America Everything Foreign is SLOW / Foreign film friendly audiences  Dan Kois Syndrome 1-2  Europe is too different 

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-Cultural Diversity Awareness- "[..] That the wide diffusion of culture, and the education of humanity for justice and liberty and peace are indispensable to the dignity of man and constitute a sacred duty which all the nations must fulfil in a spirit of mutual assistance and concern [..]" Preamble of the UNESCO constitution [PDF] 16 November 1945 Everyone has the right freely to participate

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- Cultural Diversity Awareness -  In Memoriam of all the foreign artists who brought their talent to Hollywood to give a major contribution to its success then and now. During WW2 and in the post-WW2 era this was called the "brain drain" : facilitate the emigration of the most talented people from Europe to install them in America and kill two birds with one stone. One, it makes European

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-Cultural Diversity Awareness- director : 永川 優樹 EIKAWA Yuki (born in Nagasaki in 1978) released a Blu-ray/DVD (official website) "Cruising 17 cities in ten countries, everyday people's lives from dawn to midnight are captured with one DSLR with handheld stabilizer. No narration or background music clutter this film - instead, natural sounds recorded in each locale present a true-to-life

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-Cultural Diversity Awareness- Projection Privée (France Culture) 8 Octobre 2011 - MP3 radio webcast 59'Michel Ciment (Positif) reçoit Régine Hatchondo (directrice générale d' uniFrance) France is the 2nd largest exporter of national cinema in the world (with 2 or 3% of the global market share = 60 Million admissions = 0.42 Billion $) behind the USA (21.2 Billion $). Notice the huge

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- Cultural Diversity Awareness -  Languages barriers (transnational) Film Criticism circulation delimitations (domestic) Cinema aesthetics inflences delimitations (worldwide) Cinema exhibition market restrictions (domestic) TV sets restrictions AVI-MPEG Torrent restrictions (worldwide) DVD region restrictions MP3 restrictions (worldwide) Blu-ray

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-Cultural Diversity Awareness- Global Lives Project (website [EDIT: server back on]) Wikipedia  Berkeley, USA. 2004-2010 Our mission is to collaboratively build a video library of human life experience that reshapes how we as both producers and viewers conceive of cultures, nations and people outside of our own communities. Framed by the arc of the day and conveyed through the intimacy

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- Cultural Diversity Awareness -  How much do you know about "American cinema" (both sub-continents North and South)? How much do you know about "European cinema"? How much do you know about "Asian cinema"? How much do you know about "African cinema"? How much do you know about "cinema from the Middle East"? How much do you know about "cinema from Oceania"? From the statistics I could gather

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- Cultural Diversity Awareness - Cours de cinéma : "Caché" analysé par Philippe Rouyer 5 Dec 2007 (forumdesimages) 51'39" Related : Cultural Diversity Awareness (series)

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-Cultural Diversity Awareness- This is not fictitious violence for sensationalist effects and the entertainment of the mass... this is a real life oppression of a people in Iran, the censorship and repression of artists, intellectuals of the counter-culture! "Suite à une nouvelle offensive de la police secrète du régime iranien contre les milieux du cinéma, sept artistes de renommée ont

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October 2011 is Cultural Diversity Awareness month in the USA! "Embrace diversity, embrace the World!" says the slogan... that's the theory. If you believe that art should be a boundless means of communication throughout the world, despite the "invisible hand of the free market", despite the national-centric protectionism of national culture, despite the artificial and timely hierarchy of

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Hollywood, capitale du schématisme industriel Il n'y a de "culture" et d' "esprit" qu'à partir du fait de la technique. Adopter un tel point de vue est lourd de conséquences quant à la critique que l'on peut tenter du concept d'industrie culturelle élaboré par Horkheimer et Adorno. Pour caractériser cette industrie, ceux-ci font référence à ce que Kant nomme le schématisme des concepts purs de

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V.F. Perkins interview on Film as Film [1972] (at Kino 8½, Saarbrücken, Germany; Media Art and Design Studiengang; 2011?) V.F. Perkins: "I wrote Film As Film when I was a lot younger, quite a long time ago, and in a rather special context, that is difficult for people now to grasp. It came about from my writing in a magazine called Movie, which I've benn on of the co-founder of, which have

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Stanley Kubrick, l'invention technique au service de l'art du cinéma Une conférence de Joe Dunton (22-04-2011) 1h15'32" L'intemporelle qualité visuelle des films de Stanley Kubrick est une des raisons pour lesquelles le public du monde entier continue d'être si fasciné par cette œuvre singulière. Le style cinématographique de Kubrick sert strictement la narration en donnant forme à des

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Imagine every frame of a film cut out from the reel and stack together in a pile, and you're looking at that pile from its side, as light passes through it effortlessly. Each slice, each stripe sums up the general colour tonality of the frame, and spreads it vertically along a 1 pixel wide image. As if that frame was compressed horizontally to occupy a one dimensional space. The vertical

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cinemetrics by Frederic Brodbeck (Vimeo) 18 July 2011  Frederic Brodbeck's bachelor graduation project at the Royal Academy of Arts (KABK), Den Haag cinemetrics is about measuring and visualizing movie data, in order to reveal the characteristics of films and to create a visual “fingerprint” for them. Information such as the editing structure, color, speech or motion are extracted,

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"Belle de jour" analysé par Noël Simsolo 9 mai 2007 (forumdesimages) 1h23' Mêlant adroitement rêve et réalité, Luis Buñuel brosse un portrait de femme ambigu et troublant, que l’exercice du vice transfigure. Une adaptation subtile du roman de Joseph Kessel, datant de 1967, hymne à la beauté de Catherine Deneuve dont le visage consumé par la luxure et la culpabilité reste inoubliable. Noël

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Source: CNC; MPAA; Screen Digest The golden age of the Hollywood studio era peaked in 1947 with 4.7 billion of yearly admissions. With the advent of TV, the yearly attendance for theatrical screenings dropped by 78% in only 17 years (reaching 1.02 billion in 1964). Clearly Americans went less to the movies. This is what I call a crisis for the cinema audience! Meanwhile, the

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Manohla Dargis picks up this book written by cognitive psychologists (The Invisible Gorilla) and emails David Bordwell about pattern recognition... all swell, and even a step up from Dan Kois' navel gazing journalism indeed. I can only praise a journalist background research and backing up evidences. Unfortunately, I'm afraid that inattentional blindness and retina tracking, alone, do not

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Source: UK Film Council/BFI Related: World Cinema Stats Index  Foreign film friendly audiences 2008 / EU Admissions 

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Where is Waldo? You found Waldo? (squint your eyes and it's the darkest spot on the beach) But did you spot the cactus? did you notice there was not a single shadow? did you notice there was no lifeguard? did you spot the guy with polka dots sunburn? Chances are you didn't, because given a limited amount of time, you probably tried to skim through this picture containing a flurry of details

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Cinema Pass to watch unlimited films all year round (for people who watch more than 2 films per month) : Carte UGC illimité 19.80€/month (2.3 x regular admission fee) = unlimited access to all theatres from the UGC-MK2 exhibition circuit (610 screens) nationwide. 35€/month (4 x regular admission fee) = same pass, for 2 people. Carte Le Pass 20.50€/month (2.4 x regular admission fee) =

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Admission share (%) 2010 Domestic (French) films = 36.2% Non-domestic (all-foreign) films = 63.8% American films = 48.2% Non-American foreign films = 15.6% European films = 14% Rest of the world = 1.6% Source: CNC / Focus 2010 / OES Related: World Cinema Stats Index Foreign film Friendly Audiences / EU Admissions  France - cinema capacity / Paris - Weekly

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Tom McCormack: One could think of contemporary narrative cinema as having two horizon points, the first related to wall-to-wall CGI, the second to epic long shots and the blurring of distinctions between documentary and fiction. The Two Horizons (9 August 2011) At least, for once, the landscape of contemporary cinema is not defined by the slow-fast polarities! But this new schema is still 

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Source: KOFIC Korean Cinema 2010 publication Related : South Korea - World Cinema Stats (18) / Exports (19) Market shares : USA vs EU 2009 / EU 1999-2004 / EU Admissions  Foreign Films Friendly Audiences 2008 World Cinema Stats index 

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Source: KOFIC Korean Cinema 2010 publication Related :South Korea - World Cinema Stats (18) / Market Shares (20) World Cinema Stats index 

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Cours de cinéma de Sébastien Layerle : La Commune (Paris, 1878) de Peter Watkins 13 mai 2011 (forumdesimages) 53'50"Entièrement tourné en studio, le film de Peter Watkins, expérience cinématographique et télévisuelle hors norme, bouscule les codes de représentation de la fiction historique. Donnant à l’événement une forte résonance contemporaine, il s’impose en outre comme un modèle de création

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Mick LaSalle (San Francisco Chronicle, 17 April 2011): "Meek's Cutoff [..] Of course, it had to be as director Kelly Reichardt presents it here: quiet. Nothing around for miles. And boring. Ay, there's the rub. Boring. Probably no more realistic film has ever been made about Americans off to settle the West, and so "Meek's Cutoff" cannot be dismissed. But oh, if only there were a story here to

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South Korea Facts 2010Population : 48.9 millionScreens : 2003Annual Admissions : 133.5 millionAdmissions per capita : 2.9Films produced : 152 Source: KOFIC Korean Cinema 2010 publication Related: World Cinema Stats index South Korea exports - World Cinema Stats (19) / market shares (20)

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The elephant in the editorial room of American criticism... (Films in reverse-chronological order of their USA release date)Data source: Box Office Mojo  Can't you see anything wrong in there??? This is absolutely ri-di-cu-lous! Tree of Life : Cannes 2011 PALME D'OR!!! + American-made movie + Americana backdrop + English language + Terrence Malick cult status + BRAD PITT celebrity appeal = 228

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Colloque "Jean Potocki. Pérégrinations" (Semaine Polonaise) à l'Université Toulouse II Le Mirail, le 14-15 avril 2011 Les contextes cachés du film de Wojciech Has "Manuscrit trouvé à Saragosse" (Marcin Maron, 14 avril 2011) 16'46" "Manuscrit trouvé à Saragosse" : l'hypothèse musicale (Frédéric Sounac, 14 avril 2011) 42'28" Manuscrit perdu ou trouvé? De Jean Potocki à Krzysztof Rudowski (Kinga

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Colloque "A quoi servent les festivals?" 4 juillet 2007 (festivalpariscinema) audio 1h29' [compte-rendu texte] Dans le cadre du festival ParisCinema 2007, Avec: Gilles Jacob (Festival de Cannes) Marco Müller (Mostra de Venise) Giorgio Gosetti (Festa del cinema de Roma) Margaret Menegoz (Les Films du Losange, présidente d'Unifrance) Vincent Maraval (Wild Bunch) Thomas Sotinel (Le Monde) Marc

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"[..] Nul doute qu'une certaine critique exigeante, longue et analytique est aujourd'hui menacée aux Etats-Unis. Kent jones le constate dans 'Physical Evidence' [2007] : 'La communauté des spectateurs de cinéma qui lisaient les critiques de Pauline Kael a disparu, laissant place à une pluralité d'enclaves [..] dans l'ombre d'une culture de consomation en apparence monolithique.' [..] D'où vient

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Table ronde sur la cinéphilie (France Culture, 30 juin 2011) [40'; 2e partie du podcast à partir de 49'20"] avec Jacques Rancière et Tanguy Viel Qui n’a jamais essayé, ne serait-ce que pour s’amuser, de dresser un « top ten » de ses films préférés ? De cette tentative, voire de cette impossibilité, l’écrivain Tanguy Viel a écrit un livre réjouissant paru l’an dernier sous le titre Hitchcock, par

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Seminal Image Possible inspiration for TSAI Ming-liang's I Don't Want To Sleep Alone (2006) closing oneiric image of a bed drifting on a blackened reservoir water. FU Li's erotic drama, Devil Angel (1995), shows a similar image, visually at least, of a bed against a black background (not water), which is the visualizing of a dream, towards the beginning of the film, of the lead female character

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Cineastes de notre temps, Le Home-Cinéma des frères Dardenne 3 juin 2011 (centrepompidou) 55'19" Voir aussi: Dardenne masterclass 2010 (Paris) Dardenne on non-pro filmmaking  Cannes 2011 : Conférence de presse

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"In an increasingly ‘event-driven' cultural environment, film festivals are now regarded as indispensable. Yet are festivals such as Cannes, Sundance and Toronto being sabotaged by their own success? Do they truly serve the needs of cinephiles, as well as the larger public?"Dekalog 3 on Film Festivals (May 2009)In 2009, Dekalog 3: On Film Festival, a narcissist bashing on how festivals fail to

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Penser le documentaire (en 7 leçons) TCP - Université de Provence / Canal U Le cinéma documentaire est né de la rencontre entre le désir des cinéastes d'explorer le monde et la passion des inventeurs d'enregistrer le réel : Entre Louis et Auguste Lumière, filmant le déjeuner en famille avec une caméra cinématographe noir et blanc muette et Dominique Cabréra se filmant elle-même avec une caméra DV

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Project:New Cinephilia/ Roundtable 2 Michael Koresky, Kent Jones, Melissa Anderson, Daniel Cockburn, Genevieve Yue This time they try to have somewhat of a conversation, although awkward and almost reluctantly. The comments on the Mubi forum engaged with the problematics in a more convincing manner... and the official participants of the roundtable didn't pay a single visit to reply to the

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"Tous, même le dernier des misérables a fait cette expérience. Même le dernier des crétins est passé à côté de quelque chose... où il s'est dit 'mais est-ce que je n'aurai pas passé toute ma vie à me tromper?'." Gilles Deleuze, cours à la Sorbonne* * *  "Le philosophe qui, comme Deleuze, parle de la bétise est toujours un peu suspect de s'exclure du discours qu'il tient. Pour qui se prend-il?

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Fujiwara: "I have no desire to enter into a battle with Bordwell and no intention of raising larger issues about his work in general. I want only to use the opportunity afforded by this particular text of his to set forth, by contrast, my own views on the current situation of film criticism, cinephilia, and academic film studies."More solipsist drivel, disguised as academic grandiloquent jargon:

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 جدایی نادر از سیمین (Jodaeiye Nader az Simin )A Separation (2011/Asghar Farhadi/Iran) 15 February 2011 - Berlinale 2011 [PDF]Golden Bear (Best film) Silver Bear (Best actresses ensemble : Sarina Farhadi, Sareh Bayat, Leila Hatami) Silver Bear (Best actors ensemble : Shahab Hosseini, Peyman Moadi, Ali-Asghar Shahbazi, Babak Karimi) Prize of the Ecumenical Jury Press conference Berlinale 2011 [

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« A quel point les grandes déclarations, d'Eisenstein, de Gance, sonnent étrange aujourd'hui : on les garde comme des déclarations de musée, tous les espoirs mis dans le cinéma, art des masses et nouvelle pensée. On peut toujours dire que le cinéma s’est noyé dans la nullité de ses productions. Que deviennent le suspense d'Hitchcock, le choc d'Eisenstein, le sublime de Gance, quand ils sont

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Les Ciné-débats de La Sorbonne : Jean-Pierre Jeunet 4 novembre 2010 (forumdesimages) 24'47"Rencontre avec Jean-Pierre Jeunet et Hervé Schneid (son chef monteur habituel) Lorsqu’il est appelé à Hollywood pour réaliser Alien, la résurrection (1997), Jean-Pierre Jeunet est déjà un cinéaste “culte” en Amérique, grâce aux films qu’il a cosignés avec Marc Caro, Delicatessen et La Cité des enfants

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NOT A FILM FESTIVAL: A festival is not a marketing stunt / fair (not primarily designed to serve commerce) A festival is not a commercial multiplex / repertoire arthouse (not designed to serve the audience) A festival is not a cinémathèque / museum (not designed to preserve film history) No matter what you want from a festival, their role is to offer a platform for NEW films (not all new

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"D. W. Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, Carl Theodor Dreyer, and Sergei Eisenstein are artistic peers, regardless of the differences in their cultural heritage and context, and one of the great discoveries made by critics—the young French writers at Cahiers du Cinéma in the nineteen-fifties, the inventors and advocates of the politique des auteurs (or “auteur theory”) who are now better known as the

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"Epilogue '08 is the final chapter of the year 2008. An online roundtable looking back one last time on the past year in films, after 2008 came to a close and every year-end poll and commentary has been published. We have gathered here a panel of passionate film critics from around the world to feel the pulse of the cinephile life as it unfolded in half a dozen capital cities where cinema is

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“Project: New Cinephilia” will be a unique gathering of diverse voices engaging in conversation about the current landscape for film appreciation and evaluation, taking place at the Edinburgh International Film Festival 2011. Curatorial statement, projectcinephilia.mubi.com, 23 May 2011The "Commonwealth Bubble" is done with the French Criticism legacy, and wants to impose an Anglophone-centric

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When I say  "blue" everyone can represent that very color in their head... but do we really picture the same color for this particular wavelength of light? Maybe some people see the sky and everything called "blue" like what I see everything called "yellow" without knowing the internal discrepancy because we are consistent in calling the color-a-like objects by a consensual name. Like in the case

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Dave Kehr: "The studios aren't distributing anymore, it's not on TV anymore... [..] But when you realise how much films were made in that period, and how many are actually in circulation, it's pretty startling. Very tiny percentage. Mostly it's the Oscars pictures. And that's what's gonna survive unfortunately. And I don't think that's what represents the best of what came out of Hollywood. And

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Conférence Pierre Berthomieu : Stanley Kubrick et la recherche de la nouveauté 16 mai 2011 (La cinémathèque française) 1h36Dès le début de son œuvre, Kubrick s'est démarqué des styles hollywoodiens dominants, privilégiant la recherche de la singularité et de la nouveauté. C'est ainsi qu'il élabore son odyssée de l'espace, destinée à révolutionner la science-fiction. Nourri de plusieurs films des

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Chatrak - Vimukthi Jayasundara Interview in Cannes 2011 18 mai 2011 (Quinzaine des Réalisateurs) 4'29"A travers l'histoire de deux frères, Chatrak questionne l'urbanisation galopante de l'Inde. Le premier, architecte, est à la recherche du second, parti vivre en ermite dans les bois du Bengale. Vimukhti Jayasundara, ancien lauréat de la Caméra d'or, n'a pas eu peur de proposer un récit qui ne

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Se faire une toile : pratiques du cinéma dans le monde (France Culture, 17-19 mai 2011) 1 - 2 - 3 Petite anthropologie du spectateur [MP3] 52' avec Florian Delorme, Marc Kravetz, Alexis Ipatovtsev, Hormus Key, Agnès Devictor, Jean-Marc Leveratto  Alors que le festival de Cannes a débuté la semaine dernière et que tout le monde a les yeux rivés sur les toiles - c'est-à-dire sur les films  

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