Sunday, September 13, 2009
A long-form poet of political cinema, Robert Kramer (1939-1999) may be the greatest American filmmaker we hardly knew. His unique alloys of fiction and documentary chronicle the doings and undoings of the revolutionary Left from the Sixties through the Eighties. Yet the perspectives offered in his films are prismatically personal: the hesitations of a militant […]
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Also tagged American Left, americana, anthology film archives, bridgeport CT, cinema, Documentary, films, Grace Paley, harvard film archive, ice, jesse jackson, leftism, milestones, Newsreel, radicalism, Robert Kramer, route one / usa
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Saturday, October 22, 2005
I’ve long been haunted by toilet scenes in two particular films — Coppola’s The Conversation and (less famously) Andrzej Zulawski‘s The Possessed. It was nice to discover, then, that artist Margaret Morgan has compiled some other cinematic toilet scenes in her video Toilet Training — which, she writes, ‘began as a response to my research […]
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Also tagged coppola, duchamp, Film, hitchcock, possession, psycho, rheingold, the conversation, toilets, zizek, zulawski
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