“Who could fail to sense the greatness of this art, in which the visible is the sign of the invisible?”—Jean GrémillonCinema is what you imagine, and what you imagine first, in the darkness where bundles of light thrown 24 times a second at a wall produce illusion, is movement, an electromagnetic record of the past conjured into motion by your mind’s eye. A vision. So cinema is alchemy, it’s mystery. Unlike television, which is ephemeral but endless, cinema is eternal yet ever ending. (Raúl Ruiz made an entire film from the short ends of another, and the studio system of Classic Hollywood was so dedicated to The End that it couldn’t go on.) Cinema is shadow, totality, the night.Not all film is cinema and not all cinema is poetry, but poetry in the movies is always cinema. And poetry is unknowable, like the films of Paul Clipson.
- 9/20/2017
- MUBI
Controversial blogger Chuck Johnson has once again found himself at the center of a storm. Johnson’s Twitter account has been suspended after he published a post early Sunday soliciting funds for the purpose of “taking out” civil rights activist DeRay McKesson, CNN’s Carol Costello reports. The tweet on Johnson’s since-suspended account read, “Go to gotnews.com/donate if you want to give money to taking out @deray.” Also Read: Aclu Demands Investigation Into Hollywood's Hiring Practices for Bias Against Women McKesson (pictured above) responded to Johnson’s tweet, writing, “Yes, I take this as a serious threat.
- 5/25/2015
- by Tim Kenneally
- The Wrap
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