All that survives entire of an epoch is its typical art form. For instance: painting (in all its enormity) comes to us intact from the New Stone Age. Film is surely the typical art of our time, whatever time that is. If the Lumières are Lascaux, then we are, now, in the Early Historical Period of film. It is a time of invention. One of little more than a dozen living inventors of film arts is Michael Snow. His work…

Quatro notas sobre o filme e o livro:

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Ballard considerava Crash uma espécie de autobiografia. Não por ter vivido os eventos, mas porque eles pareciam extrapolar traumas pessoais e a psicologia da época. Quando escreveu o livro, Ballard havia perdido a esposa, e uma das mudanças na adaptação por Cronenberg foi justamente a ênfase no arco narrativo do casal. O protagonista na sua versão de Naked Lunch já era uma mistura da vida do autor com a trama do…

[January 26, 1946]

My dear Ford!

I’m very sorry we never met personally – except the one case of being reproduced in picture form on the same page in Gorelik’s New Theatres for Old!
Hell knows what you think of my pictures, but I’m ranging among your most fervent admirers here.
And that’s why I’m addressing you this letter.
We’re publishing here a series of books under the title Materials on the History of World Cinema Art. I’m the editor…