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Having David Lynch tell me to 'get real' is quite simply sublime! and let us not forget (with apologies to Magritte), this is not a film Greg ________________________________________ From: Film-Philosophy [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of William Brown [[log in to unmask]] Sent: 27 May 2011 10:54 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [FILM-PHILOSOPHY] Filmophilia (Godard thesis) 1. I am vulgar. Apologies. 2. I go to the cinema circa 150 times a year. In a good year (by 'good' I mean a year in which I have more money to spend on cinema, which comes second after 'life' (socialising (typically drinking, maybe with some thinking (maybe even third after writing (maybe even fourth after reading)))) in my list of priorities), I'd go more often. 3. In spite of my 'cinephilia' (but really? most of the films I watch in the 'real' cinema hall are sheeeeeit by anyone's 'aesthetic' standard (Sucker Punch, anyone?), but I goes anyway), I still watch more films on DVD. 3b. (That said, I saw 13 Assassins at the kino yesterday, and it is excellent. Best Miike film I have seen, methinks.) 4. Ergo DVD Studies. DVDphilia? Some of thems I even watches on a laptop... Especially when it's a DVD from a region my cheapo DVD player cannot read. Or, as per now, when MUBI is showing former Cannes films for free online (replete with pauses as my craptop is too slow to process the film as it 'streams'). 5. Lynch himself made Rabbits and Dumbland for the online people. He hath arguably a point in this wee anti-iPhone rant, but... truth is we cannot all watch films in the cinema and we cannot all afford a home cinema system. 6. Democratisation necessarily involves cheapening? 7. It is Lynch's cough at 16 seconds that makes this film. That and the hesitation he makes between saying 'billion' and 'trillion' (he eventually opts for the latter; 7-8 seconds). Oh, and the fact that he swears (23-24 seconds). There is great pleasure to be taken in swearing and in hearing other people swear. The clichéd Apple music throughout has a role to play, too. As do the Lynchian red curtains, the 4 cuts, especially to the closest up shot, and I love the fact that one of his shirt collars is tucked into his jumper and one out. A studied performance in how to appear avuncular. 8. I still saw this on an unmaximised window on my laptop. Did I really 'see' it (even though I've now watched it about 10 times)? 9. What was it shot on? 1 + 0s = images? 1 and 0 must invariably go together (see below). Although, as you will see (if you read it), this diatribe goes up to 11. 10. Cinephilia or filmophilia is silly. As philosophy is not the love of wisdom but really the wisdom of loving (otherwise it would be sophophily), so, too, is cinephilia not about loving the films that you love, but about loving film (grace à QT) - and, in the words of Shakira, whenever, wherever. 11. Since the habit has been made of recommending places where you can do practice and theory based theses, then, ahem, I'd tell Haukur (in fact, I already did off-piste, but feel I ought to in public now as well) that Roehampton offers similar. And, if it does anything to make more convincing the endorsement, I made a film about Godard (called, apologies, En Attendant Godard). Although it's not really about Godard. In facts, I'm not sure what it's about (de soufflé). And I wasn't at Roehampton when I made it. But I am now. So maybe that counts. Either way, please do apply if the interest takes you. > Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 09:19:58 +1000 > From: Robert Sinnerbrink <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Re: Filmophilia > > Dear All, > > David Lynch on the question of iphone cinema 'experience': > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKiIroiCvZ0 > > Why not novels by twitter? > > Regards, > Robert -- Film-Philosophy After hitting 'reply' please always delete the text of the message you are replying to To leave, send the message: leave film-philosophy to: [log in to unmask] Or visit: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/film-philosophy.html For technical help email: [log in to unmask], not the list -- Film-Philosophy journal: http://www.film-philosophy.com/ Film-Philosophy Conference (6-8 July 2011): http://www.film-philosophy.com/conference/ Contact: [log in to unmask] -- -- Film-Philosophy After hitting 'reply' please always delete the text of the message you are replying to To leave, send the message: leave film-philosophy to: [log in to unmask] Or visit: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/film-philosophy.html For technical help email: [log in to unmask], not the list -- Film-Philosophy journal: http://www.film-philosophy.com/ Film-Philosophy Conference (6-8 July 2011): http://www.film-philosophy.com/conference/ Contact: [log in to unmask] --