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1.12 – The paste and the piercing
Can you say anything meaningful about a filmmaker as loathed-prickled-stressfully admired as D. W. G.? When so much has already been said; when so much sensitivity is required. I wrote a first version of this entry that thickly ladled out i...
1.11 – Bear necessities
I felt a certain heaviness writing the last entry in this project; K and I had just spent some days in Wales, in the North, as a storm crept over us—and then there were miles of truculent sky. For a while I forgot about cinema and history....
1.10 – Now; blink
In the sticky lexicon of film we continue to use the same word that we’ve always used to describe loosely circular images within films, particularly silent films. We call them “vignettes”.
The vignette is an “iris”; is a closing sphere; is...
1.9 – Brazen Light
By now, you’re probably realising—as I’m realising—that film sort of rushed-exploded-globbed into existence. There was a lot of film, made very quickly; and keeping track of who was doing what, and when, can quickly become exhausting. I fee...
1.8 – A darkness in Scandinavia
Winter is finally thawing in London, but that won’t deter this post’s purpose: to rejoin Victor Sjöström, Asta Nielsen, and Urban Gad—three figures we met in an earlier entry of my “lopsided” history—to take the melancholic pulse of what wa...
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