It’s a Wonderful Life (1946).
... is my kind of Christmas. I shall be back in January.
Telephilia and Cinephilia
13.12.2007
Yes, the first word exists. Both can be equated in the love that defines them: the love of television, the love of cinema.
Self-titled telephiles and cinephiles often attack each other with crude generalisations, blatant ignorance, and useless snobbery — and I am being kind. They unreflectingly look at the other side with a mirror and if they recognise something from their side then they come across as being merely selective and critical. They talk of things like cinematic television and televisual cinema.
I prefer to stay outside of this quarrel and keep the freedom to be attentively both a telephile and a cinephile (and to be attentive to the creative relation between television and cinema) without the need to declare it. Love begs for closeness, not conceitedness.
On the March
12.12.2007
Colossal Youth.
The Los Angeles Film Critics Association distinguishes distinguishes Colossal Youth (Juventude em Marcha, 2006) today with the Douglas Edwards Experimental/Independent Film/Video Award.
The Widescreen Frame
08.12.2007
Bonjour tristesse (1958).
Week 12, 2008, at the University of Kent. This week’s lecture delivered by Dr. Alex Clayton for Introduction to Narrative Cinema 1: American Cinema is titled “The Widescreen Frame: Challenges and Opportunities”.
Arranging the Frame in Colour
02.12.2007
All That Heaven Allows (1955).
Week 11, 2008, at the University of Kent. This week’s lecture delivered by Dr. Alex Clayton for Introduction to Narrative Cinema 1: American Cinema is titled “Arranging the Frame in Colour”.
Kendall Walton Symposium
01.12.2007
The symposium on Kendall Walton and the aesthetics of photography and film began yesterday and it ended today at the University of Kent. For the record — especially for those who did not attend this important event — the following is a list of the talks:
Friday, 30 Nov.:
Murray Smith (University of Kent), “Welcome and Introduction”
Jonathan Friday (University of Kent), “The Experience of Stillness and Motion in Still Photography”
Patrick Maynard (University of Western Ontario), “Hipshooting: Regarding Photography’s Functions and Its Arts”
Gregory Currie (University of Nottingham), “Pictures of King Arthur”
Saturday, 1 Dec.:
Scott Walden (Nassau Community College/New York University), “Warranted Stills: Disentangling the Epistemic Advantages of Photography”
Tom Wartenberg (Mount Holyoke College), “On the Alleged Ubiquity of Filmic Narrators”
Kendall Walton (University of Michigan), “What (Else) Is Special About Photographs?”
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