Your cuts work (wonders), Barry. I like the (un)fills....
Doug
On 8-Sep-10, at 11:22 AM, Barry Alpert wrote:
> JACQUES RIVETTE DIT
>
>
> A young actor [arranged to meet me in a bookstore].
> Cuts. It was nice, it added to the film’s suspense.
> Quickly, because I met Scherrer-Rohmer just to say hello that day,
> up every day. That was several years later.
> Era, less devoted,
> showing banned films,
>
> rather made Francois and I laugh.
> I had a reputation, rightly or wrongly, of being the Saint Just
> visual point of view--the picture was cleaned up.
>
>
> PERHAPS JACQUES RIVETTE WROTE
>
>
> So you can speak.
>
> One’s usually mute
> when driving alone.
>
> He wants to break my entrance.
> You can’t importune me.
> What are you doing? Strolling?
>
> It’s not an act--it’s an entrance.
>
>
> Barry Alpert / Silver Spring MD US / 9-8-10 (1:19 PM)
>
> Two weeks ago I posted to the Snapshop Project the last seven lines
> of this sixteener because I thought they stood alone as a cine-poem
> drafted during the experience of viewing perhaps the last film to be
> completed by this distinguished French director. I had earlier
> written the first nine lines out of interview material which
> addressed the beginning of his career and his entrance into the
> French nouvelle vague context, but those lines required a number of
> revisions over a period of weeks before I was satisfied with them.
> At this point I prefer to present all 16 lines as a formal unit,
> though I can also conceive of offering either half separately--
> depending on the context.
>
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