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9.09.2020
Films byTexts by 1969
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29.01.2020
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Robert Bresson, 1969, 88’
« Il y a ici un autre principe de base, principe que très peu, sauf les grands comme Chaplin, connaissent : c’est l'économie. Faire une grande chose avec rien, c’est ça le truc. Alors qu’il est de coutume de faire tout le contraire : on montre absolument tout, quoi que ce soit, tout est bon.
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Noriaki Tsuchimoto, 1969, 120’
Aaron Gerow: This is a question relating to style. The dual quality, as you said, both keeping a distance and having a great interest in the main subject – someone like Takita Osamu in Pre-Partisans – is a part of your film style.
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Jean-Pierre Melville, 1969, 145’
“The war period was awful, horrible marvelous.”
Jean-Pierre Melville
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Eric Rohmer, 1969, 110’
Graham Petrie: What exactly do you mean by the word “moral” in the title of this series of films?
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1969, 88’
“Fassbinder’s second film, which became not only his first claim to fame and author status, but also gave him [...] valuable operating capital for years to come.
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Marcel Broodthaers, 1969, 3’
“I hate movements that displace the lines.
If I make a film, for a genre still defined as the discipline of movement, I have to repeat Baudelaire’s verse, unless…”
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Claes Söderquist, 1969, 28’
“Travelogue. Portraits – Images from a journey is a black-and-white travel journal, in which the themes of memories and their relationship to the past suddenly catch up and rush away from us.
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Glauber Rocha, 1969, 100’
“Be aware: for him there are no true or false gods, there are (as Deleuze and Guattari would say) ‘rhizome’ gods, there are images sliding ones beneath the others, all of them true or all of them false. What matters is not the Earth but the Age.
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Haskell Wexler, 1969, 111’
“‘When I was in Vietnam with Jane Fonda,’ Wexler has recalled, ‘I was filming a farmer walking through a field when, all of a sudden, he stepped on a land mine.
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Charles Burnett, 1969, 21’
“Charles Burnett’s first 16mm student film, Several Friends, showcases his early facility with a documentary approach to fiction, his ability to draw out eccentric and endearing characterizations from an ensemble of nonprofessional actors, and his sensitivity to the expressive possibilit
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Sergei Parajanov, 1969, 79’
“From the colors and aromas of this world, my childhood made a poet’s lyre and offered it to me.”
Sayat-Nova
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Agnès Varda, 1969, 31’
“The Black Panther Party (BPP) embodied this new mixture of cultural and political rebellion. Varda would often travel from Los Angeles to Oakland, filming Black Panther meetings and demonstrations with a 16mm camera borrowed from student activists at the University of California, Berkeley.
