21 Jun 2019
Posted by Victor-Katia as Alain Resnais, Discussion and Mind-Probing, Films (and stills from the films) analyzed
When People Go Through Life Like Eyes Through The Visible World Or Ears Fill With Sounds, And Human Heart Pumps Blood Just Because It Is Its Job A good looking couple with intelligent and sensitive faces – Claude Ridder (Claude Rich) and Catrine (Olga Georges Picot) The dark moods and the inability to understand what […]
22 Sep 2018
Posted by Victor-Katia as Alain Resnais, Discussion and Mind-Probing, Films (and stills from the films) analyzed, Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Alain Resnais’ And RWF’s Two Films As Repercussions And Variations Of Each Other Eccentricities, Banalities And Creative Potential Of Heterosexual And Homosexual Libido __________ Sudden enigmatic meeting is love’s first strike In the castle of baroque décor X is looking for somebody. Does he really know for whom? Or, may be, he just wants to […]
24 Jun 2018
Posted by Victor-Katia as Alain Resnais, Discussion and Mind-Probing, Films (and stills from the films) analyzed
“Frivolous Existential Genius” And “Moralistic Functionaries” 2 Clips from “Providence” (1977) Alain Resnais and John Gielgud (Clive Langham) are preparing a scene on the set of “Providence” Between a father and his sons – between Clive and – Claude and Kevin, the democratic culture stumbled and falls. Of course, the fall of such a massive […]
25 May 2017
Posted by Victor-Katia as Alain Resnais, Discussion and Mind-Probing, Films (and stills from the films) analyzed
Realized Dystopia – Consumerist/Entertainment Society And Its Settlers, Fighters And Sufferers At a press conference at a Venice Film Festival in 1963, Resnais said that his film depicted “the malaise of a so-called happy society” One of the topic of the film is the Algerian war. In 1960, Resnais had been one of the signatories […]
23 Sep 2014
Posted by Victor-Katia as Alain Resnais, Discussion and Mind-Probing, Films (and stills from the films) analyzed
Political Fight Without Cultural (Philosophically And Artistically) Agenda Becomes As Anti-humanistic As (Conservative/Authoritarian) Status Quo Brother, friend, I want to barter Your house for my stallion, saddle for your mirror, Change my dagger for your blanket. By Federico Garcia Lorca The population will all be petty bourgeois, the workers having been anthropologically eliminated by the […]
24 Mar 2014
Posted by victor as Alain Resnais, Alain Resnais, Discussion and Mind-Probing, Films (and stills from the films) analyzed, Obituaries
“My films are my attempts, still very crude and primitive to come closer to the complexity of thought as such, to its mechanism” Alain Resnais Alain Resnais wasn’t just a “film-maker”, but a master of cinema as an art form and an original and independent thinker through the moving images. Resnais’ artistic paradigm is so […]
25 May 2013
Posted by victor as Alain Resnais, Discussion and Mind-Probing, Films (and stills from the films) analyzed
Psychology Of An “Impossible” Love (Without Symbiosis, Sentimentality, Philistinism, Vanity, Rivalry) … a deconstruction of the amorous link… Julia Kristeva, “Hatred and Forgiveness”, Columbia Univ. Press, 2010, p. 225 … Love needs re-inventing. It cannot be just a defensive action… It must be something that innovates. Alan Badiou, “In Praise of Love” Montage, for Eisenstein […]
20 Mar 2011
Posted by Victor-Katia as Alain Resnais, Discussion and Mind-Probing, Films (and stills from the films) analyzed
Elevated Amorous Object (EAO) as a “Muse of Human Soul”, Soul’s Vital Spirit (its Anchor in the Visual World) X looks at A not as at another human being but as his soul’s mirror image (elevated by beautification). This shot registers this magic moment of transformation of a gaze directed at the world, into self-reflective/self-transforming […]