Re: Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second: The cinema thread
[quote user="nycd"]I just watched La Jetée again - can't count the number of times I've watched this now.
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All directors should be required to make a film entirely from stills. To be fair, they get one short shot with motion - as in this film.
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But just one.[/quote]</p>
When I started film studies two years ago, the lecturer made us watch Marker without sound pretty much straight after we'd all sat down in the seminar room for the first time. Half the class had changed course by the next week!</p>
IIRC the camera pans twice in La jetée. It seems to me a moot point whether or not the eyelid actually 'opens'.</p>
[quote user="nycd"]I just watched La Jetée again - can't count the number of times I've watched this now.
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All directors should be required to make a film entirely from stills. To be fair, they get one short shot with motion - as in this film.
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But just one.[/quote]</p>
When I started film studies two years ago, the lecturer made us watch Marker without sound pretty much straight after we'd all sat down in the seminar room for the first time. Half the class had changed course by the next week!</p>
IIRC the camera pans twice in La jetée. It seems to me a moot point whether or not the eyelid actually 'opens'.</p>
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