trains in cinema, part 6

train wreck at montparnasse - 1895- ben affleck - gone baby gone - 2007- tomas alfredson - let the right one it - 2008- carroll ballard - black stallion - 1979- john cassavetes - husbands - 1970- jack clayton - the innocents - 1961- john cromwell - since you went away - 1944- olivier dahan - la vie en rose - 2007- stephen daldry - the reader - 2008- david fincher - the curious case of benjamin

to be absolved...

Throughout the first centuries of our era, the Gnostics disputed with the Christians. They were annihilated, but we can imagine their possible victory. Had Alexandria triumphed and not Rome, the extravagant and muddled stories that I have summarized here would be coherent, majestic, and perfectly ordinary. Pronouncements such as Novalis' "Life is a sickness of the spirit", or the despairing one
john cassavetes' husbands distilled into 23 blurs, streaks and abstractions(discovered while listening to toru takemitsu)

à la recherche de la guitare perdue - la troisième partie (collapsing stars)

(jazz, listening-music, etcetery)co-researched by memory contributors tarrl lightowlerdiane granahan and m swiezynski- john abercrombie - november - ecm - 1992- amm (keith rowe) - ammmusic 1966 - rer megacorp - 1989- amm (keith rowe) - the crypt - 12th june 1968 - matchless recordings - 1988/1992- amm (keith rowe) - newfoundland - matchless recordings - 1993- amm (keith rowe) - fine - matchless

pieces

There is no paradise on earth, but there are pieces of it.What there is on earth is a broken paradise.- Pierro della Francesca / Jules Renard

the pinewood frenzy, once,

forthcoming tree film *23five incorporated & ata present a night of projection, video and soundjefre cantu & paul clipsongrasslung & matthew swiezynskipulse emitter & matthew swiezynskisaturday, august 8, 2009 - 8 pm992 valencia street, san francisco ca(for those in the bay area)* stills from as yet untitled tree film inspired by the camera methods of stan brakhage, kirston lightowler and michael
isn't it rich?are we a pair?me here at last on the ground,you in mid-air.send in the clowns.isn't it bliss?don't you approve?one who keeps tearing around,one who can't move.where are the clowns?send in the clowns.just when i'd stopped opening doors,finally knowing the one that i wanted was yours,making my entrance again with my usual flair,sure of my lines,no one is there.don't you love a farce?

to a current's ear --

lucile hadzihalilovic - innocence - 2004sound from opening creditstitle - emily dickinson - i think that the root of wind is water

now light blue, now green, almost always pellucid

a still every 60 seconds from larry gottheim's fog line - 1970,including first and lastthe image of the railroad on the shore of the pond figures an ambiguity at the heart of walden. man-made power, the machine with its fire, smoke, and thunder, is juxtaposed to the waters of walden, remarkable for their depth and purity and a matchless, indescribable color - now light blue, now green, almost
ron rice - chumlum - 1964music - angus maclisemusic director - tony conradsoundtrack(this is the first in the sound/music from film series)

univers du western - lonely are the brave

david miller - lonely are the brave - 1962(landscape photography)kirk douglas - john w. "jack" burnswhiskeygena rowlands - jerry bondigeorge kennedy - deputy sheriff gutierrezwalter matthau - sheriff morey johnsoncarroll o'connor - hintonwilliam schallert - harrybill raisch - one arm(he was stand-in for burt lancaster)cinematography by philip h. lathrop *music by jerry goldsmith *screenplay by

first we must deal with the light of nature, then with nature of light

trees found in saul levine's note to patti - 1969title from stan brakhage's a moving picture giving and taking bookfrontier press - 1971

equivalent (series)

peter hutton - boston fire - 1979peter hutton - new york portrait, chapter ii - 1980-81alfred stieglitz - equivalent (series) - 1925-1931

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