there is so much very serious -- and important – stuff on this list that it serves [for me at least] some very useful purposes in keeping up with what different people in different places and with different agendas are doing

 

but i wonder if i might impose a thread of trivial pursuits on a sort and ask those who are inclined in this direction to share suggestions’ for what might be called iconic moments in cinema  . . . there are moments in films we’ve seen that are [or are taken to be] so memorable that one merely has to mention them to elicit a universe of responses . . . i think off-hand of some bits of dialogue that almost everyone will recognize [“go ahead, make my day”; “i’ll make him an offer he can’t refuse”; “play it again sam”] – and while it’s interesting that it’s words rather than images that come to mind first that may be simply because it’s so much easier to quote words than to refer to and explain images   . . . but there are also images:  the sliced eye in chien andalou; the face of dreyer’s jeanne d’arc;   nosferatu; the grinning skull in psycho

 

so, if you would enjoy a break from thinking about film as language, you might want to suggest your own candidates for this very rough list of iconic moments in cinema

 

mike

 

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