Sally Potter reading Martin Buber: 'I and You' in bed/bathtop/waiting at the phone for a call from the tango dancer in 'Tango'.
Benedicta/Copenhagen
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Fra: "Jonathan Allen" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sendt: 2. juni 2003 19:46
Emne: Booklooking
> I am on the hunt for scenes - indeed entire movies - in which we
> watch someone reading a book. We must be staring *because* of the
> very fact that they are reading; it's not interesting if they might as well
> be knitting or doing Rubik's cube. The moment I'm most curious about
> is the coming to the novel's end: the book is spent and the
> communion with Literature complete - what happens then? I've never
> witnessed this in another myself (and for want of security camera
> footage I guess I've never seen what faces *I* pull also). People
> reading books on the tube are always on pages 55-56, or
> thereabouts.
> To be clear, I'm looking for the book equivalent of Anna Karina reeling
> from Joan of Arc in Vivre sa Vie; or else I'm looking for the film version
> of the parts of Calvino's 'If on a winter's night a traveller' where the
> writer gets all goosebumpy spying on a girl absorbed in reading
> (could it be *his* words the girl's gaze caresses?).
> Instances of such scenes in literature and other arts would also be of
> interest.
> Any guidance in locating such scenes would be massively
> appreciated.
>
> Jonathan.
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