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André Bazin: The Ontology of the Photographic Image

The Ontology of the Photographic Image by André Bazin's Qu'est-ce que le cinéma? (What is Cinema?)

REVIEWS

Antiviral (2012)

Brandon Cronenberg enjoys the affection of current pop culture towards vampirism and builds a medical horror that could easily pass by as his father's work.

El Sicario, Room 164 (2010)

Τhe controversial documentary by Gianfranco Rosi. A retired sicario is narrating his experiences working for the Mexican drug cartels.

Eyforiya (Euphoria, 2006)

A tragic romantic story set in the immense Russian steppe. A theatrical experience told by Ivan Vyrypaev in pure cinematic language.

Až do Mesta Aš (Made in Ash) – Torino 30

Iveta Grófová depicts the bleak life in Bohemia that has gradually become Germany's poor man's Thailand.

Force of Evil (1948)

Abrahams Polonsky suggests that entrepreneurship is not so far away from criminality and that something is corrupted in the immaculate postwar American society.

QUOTES

Antonioni on directing

When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it.

Dziga Vertov’s Eye

I'm an eye. A mechanical eye. I, the machine, show you a world the way only I can see it.

Biće Skoro Propast Sveta (It Rains in My Village, 1968)

Directed by Aleksandar Petrovič

Francesco Rosi: The cinema of emotions

The language of the image is emotion.

Trans-Europ-Express Eroticism

These black corsets, these slit skirts, these chains, these popular erotic images that I treated as you say fairly stereotypical belong, I believe, to a collective erotic material

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André Bazin: The Ontology of the Photographic Image