Intermission (休憇): Seven Samurai Interrupted
☛ Seven Samurai (Shichinin no Samurai) by Akira Kurosawa, Japan, 1954. Intermission card from 01:46:45 to 01:51:46, Criterion Edition. This intermission card arrives 107 minutes in Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 film Seven Samurai. It lasts approximately 5 minutes and is accompanied by a music score by Hayasaka Fumio. At the time of writing, it can be […]
Editing film: directors looking at strips of celluloid
☛ artnet: Jean-Luc Godard photographed by Philippe R. Doumic, circa 1960. Gelatin silver print, 18 x 13 cm. (7.1 x 5.1 in.). Large format retrieved from falter.at. © Unifrance Films. The photo was likely taken during or just after the production of À bout de souffle, which was released in France on March 17, 1960. […]
Kubrick’s ‘Dr. Strangelove’ premiered on January 29, 1964
☛ LACMA – Stanley Kubrick: “Early brainstorming on titles and subtitles for Dr. Strangelove.” Photo courtesy of the Stanley Kubrick Archive at the University of the Arts, London. Included in the “Kubrick” app launched in 2013, in conjunction with the exhibition “Stanley Kubrick” (previously here). • • • This newspaper clipping from The New York […]
“The Gaze of Interruption”: on ‘Goodbye to Language’ by Jean-Luc Godard
A 3200-word essay I wrote on Jean-Luc Godard’s 3-D film Adieu au langage (Goodbye to Language) has been published at Berfrois: see “The Gaze of Interruption”. I discovered Berfrois a couple of years ago through a review of Michel Foucault’s Leçons sur la volonté de savoir written by Stuart Elden. Berfrois is a well-established “literary-intellectual […]
