22 May 2019
Posted by Victor-Katia as Discussion and Mind-Probing, Obituaries
Bibi Andersson in the role of Karin in Ingmar Bergman’s “The Touch” (1971) Bibi Andersson in the role of Karin in Ingmar Bergman’s “The Touch” (1971) We have now to learn how to live without Bibi while continuing to watch and re-watch her in “The Touch”, from where she has transferred to us her creative […]
07 Jan 2019
Posted by Victor-Katia as Audie Murphy – A Bressonian Actor In American Western (!?!), Discussion and Mind-Probing, Obituaries
*To The Memory Of Audie Murphy (1925 – 1971), Perhaps, One Of The Most Humanistically Significant Actors In American Western During WWII Murphy was an efficient soldier, a person with a soul without any militancy and bravado (almost paradoxical combination in any army). And he was a movie actor without any emotional pedaling – exist […]
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 […]
19 Oct 2013
Posted by victor as Discussion and Mind-Probing, Obituaries, Walter Schmidinger
Walter Schmidinger Walter Schmidinger is a film actor of a rare tonality who ought to be remembered and his art – consulted. He is able to act in a special manner, which today, when cinema becomes as commercialized as a crossroad with tracks, is as “exotic” as a macaw bird’s song – he is able […]
01 Jul 2012
Posted by Victor-Katia as Discussion and Mind-Probing, Films (and stills from the films) analyzed, Günther Kaufmann, Obituaries, R.W. Fassbinder's Films With Gunther Kaufmann, Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Intelligence and Nobility of the Characters With Kaufmann’s Screen Persona Belong to Life (and for That Matter, to Death), Not to Calculating “Survival/Success” Gunther Kaufmann at the time of his death This shot from Fassbinder’s “Whity” (1970) that is part of a 360-degree camera’s “trip” around Kaufmann – with sarcastic solemnity registers the radical transformation […]
01 Jun 2012
Posted by victor as Discussion and Mind-Probing, Jean Laplanche, Obituaries
J. Laplanche-the young intellectual J. Laplanche-the middle-age academic J. laplanche-the “magister” of psychoanalytic reasoning … The Copernican revolution…opened up the possibility of the absence of the center… If the center of the world can be everywhere, it follows correlatively that ‘its circumference is nowhere’. A decentered and infinite world…led…to the accusation of impiety. If man […]
05 May 2012
Posted by victor as Claude Miller, Claude Miller, Discussion and Mind-Probing, Films (and stills from the films) analyzed, Obituaries
The Images of Frustration – Criminality’s and Conformism’s Childhood or Creative Victory Over it Claude Miller imagines or explains future shot Mockery even at the shadow of gender uncertainty in dormitory of a summer boy-scout camp Mark (one of the camp instructors) by putting on a mask of machoism tries to hide his own complexes […]
01 Apr 2012
Posted by victor as Discussion and Mind-Probing, Erland Josephson, Obituaries
An Actor Capable of Impersonating Life of Intellectual Function – Its Limitations, Errors, Ambitions, Achievements Erland Josephson (1923 – 2012) In Bergman’s world I represented a sort of intellectual, skeptical, ironic person, rather cold and frustrated. When I went abroad and made films in Italy and other places, I was used in different ways. I […]