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Marseille 2004

Rewatched 02 Oct 2023

Below is some text from an old notebook, a couple of weeks before my first workshop with Angela Schanelec at the HFBK. I've figured out now, with a year's distance, that I have more to learn from her films than her teachings. I was more hyperbolic then, more than I would be now. But I wanted to get at the enigma of her best films, also - in turn -what's lacking in her most recent work ('Ich war zuhause, aber'…
Megalopolis 2024

Watched 24 Sep 2024

(Excerpt from the Canadian Press, ca. 2020, felt compelled to post after watching ‘The Shrouds’)
CP: The controversy surrounding "Crash" started at Cannes where your film won a Special Jury Prize. Coppola, the jury president that year, described your work as original, daring and audacious, but he went out of his way to note that some people on the jury didn't support the recognition. Did you ever find out who was against it?
Cronenberg: Coppola was totally against it.
CP:…

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Stop Making Sense 1984

★★★★★ Rewatched 10 May 2024

Lost count of the amount of times I’ve seen this since first discovering it 10 years ago, at age 14/15.
A balm for the senses. Rewatching this and Varda’s “Le Bonheur” rejuvenated something in me. Colour, movement, music… all fundaments that are lacking among my contemporaries and in their work.
Also, the editing remains the precedent to look towards, for me. Incredibly judicious about when to cut between performers, spacious but never unmoored, rhythmic yet never stuck to a rote…

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