MJ Walker wrote, "That's right, those words of yours, Barry, hold for both
the film (as I remember it after decades) and the story. Usually I am too
ignorant to grasp your poems, but this one really grasps me!"
Thanks, Martin, though I'll admit that I couldn't physically retrieve my
copy of von Kleist's novella before re-viewing the film. And I'll continue
to argue that a reader doesn't have to have previous knowledge of my
subject matter in order to grasp what I've written during my experience of
it. Quite often I'm largely ignorant of my subject when I start. Barry
Edmund Hardy wrote, "I very much like these film-sprung poems, Barry -
particularly as a textual
response to a film that isn't reading the film, or providing exegesis - in
the current Sight and Sound magazine, Godard is interviewed and he says how
a film can't/shouldn't be read, because it isn't a book - and these lines
are something else!
BTW, I'm a big fan of Rohmer's contemporary films, but I can't seem to get
on with his historical ones - although I liked Triple Agent more than The
Lady and the Duke more than Marquise - but this poem has given me the itch
to re-view The Marquise of O, with its invisible conception..."
I appreciate your comments, Edmund, and I prefer as well Rohmer's
contemporary settings over his historical ones. Hence my surprise at
writing anything during my re-viewing of The Marquise of O . . .
My earliest publications were extended film reviews, and although I still
sort through a lot of film reviews in order to decide what to see, I don't
think of writing them myself anymore. And thanks for the formulation "film-
sprung poems". Your perception of what these texts don't do strikes me as
accurate. I've gathered together a fair number of them at:
http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?
name=Content&pa=list_pages_categories&cid=17
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