BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Squeak-iCalendar//- VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20081205T132914---c87eaf17-0775-4e06-b2c0-e3e3639e63a7@shasta.smallthou ght.com CREATED:20081205T132914Z SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Film / Genre PRIORITY:5 DESCRIPTION:Keywords: Film / Genre\n Text: "I do not believe that the cinem a has genres -- the cinema is *itself* a genre."\n -Tarkovsky\n Date: 10/1 4/07\n ID: 13123 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20071014 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20071014 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20081205T132914---d706ad39-345b-4acc-bf3d-2693ab03beb7@shasta.smallthou ght.com CREATED:20081205T132914Z SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Juxtaposition / Editing / Television PRIORITY:5 DESCRIPTION:Keywords: Juxtaposition / Editing / Television\n Text: allegedl y\,Medvedkin wept "when he found he could put two pieces of film together and have it mean something." (Rosenbaum)\n \n Chris Marker's commentary: " Nowadays\, television floods the whole world with senseless images and nob ody cries."\n Date: 10/14/07\n ID: 13159 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20071014 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20071014 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20081205T132914---85eff898-d528-4d78-b37d-765784af7c10@shasta.smallthou ght.com CREATED:20081205T132914Z SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:To See / Body / Experience / Mental Illness PRIORITY:5 DESCRIPTION:Keywords: To See / Body / Experience / Mental Illness\n Text: R ivette L'amour fou (1967)\n \n features a passage in which an actor (Pierr e Kalfon) self-lacerates with a razor -- "a disturbing piece of self-expos ure in which the fictional postulates of the character seem to crumble int o genuine pain and distress\, representing ... a dangerous crossing of cer tain boundaries into what can only be perceived as madness"\n Date: 10/19/ 07\n ID: 15236 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20071019 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20071019 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20081205T132914---bbdd3d41-6e23-48d6-8dc4-17dc50cf8b1d@shasta.smallthou ght.com CREATED:20081205T132914Z SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Film / To Read PRIORITY:5 DESCRIPTION:Keywords: Film / To Read\n Text: Susan Sontag - "Against Interp retation"\n \n Rosenbaum: "Sontag made popular art\, movies in particular\ , a suitable subject in serious discussions of art\, literature\, and phil osophy"\n Date: 09/25/07\n ID: 12314 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20070925 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20070925 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20081205T132914---f2a43ca6-e0fb-42e2-a73b-6b9d872d60e5@shasta.smallthou ght.com CREATED:20081205T132914Z SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:To See / Performance / Representation / Film PRIORITY:5 DESCRIPTION:Keywords: To See / Performance / Representation / Film\n Text: Rob Tregenza's "Talking to Strangers" \n \n "The movie consists of nine te n-minute takes ... and though all of these sequences were carefully rehear sed\, Tregenza insisted on shooting each of them only once. His basic rul e was that each sequence would consist of ten minutes of uncut fim (all th at would fit in the camera)"\n \n "This adoption of a virtual one-to-one s hooting ratio ... aims to maximize a sense of performance and presence and involve us fully in the contours of an *event* rather than oblige us to r egard its idealized representation as we would in a Hollywood movie"\n \n Not at Netflix\, sadly\n Date: 09/25/07\n ID: 12280 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20070925 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20070925 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20081205T132914---c018a065-864b-4e1b-81e9-3f0ce77e3cc7@shasta.smallthou ght.com CREATED:20081205T132914Z SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:To See / Film / Africa / Timeline PRIORITY:5 DESCRIPTION:Keywords: To See / Film / Africa / Timeline\n Text: 1965 (or 19 66?)\n \n Ousmane Sembene's "Black Girl"\n \n "It's at this point that Afr ican cinema begins." -Rosenbaum\n Date: 10/14/07\n ID: 13135 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20071014 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20071014 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20081205T132914---c59b904e-b1a5-4798-94b7-d7c1a661cd48@shasta.smallthou ght.com CREATED:20081205T132914Z SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Film / Narrative PRIORITY:5 DESCRIPTION:Keywords: Film / Narrative\n Text: critic Robert Warshow\, in 1 948 [!] pinpoints that there is a tension that art-film directors face: "t he conflict between a love for the purely visual and the tendencies of a m edium that is not only visual but also dramatic"\n Date: 09/25/07\n ID: 12 256 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20070925 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20070925 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20081205T132914---52aa7843-d36e-40ae-9381-8eae0bab05b6@shasta.smallthou ght.com CREATED:20081205T132914Z SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Film / Media / Representation / Fashion / Reality PRIORITY:5 DESCRIPTION:Keywords: Film / Media / Representation / Fashion / Reality\n T ext: Rosenbaum on Pulp Fiction\, Natural Born Killers\, Ed Wood\, and Forr est Gump:\n \n "[A]ll these movies imply that life can only be what we alr eady see in the media\; and since what we see there is invariably false an d concocted\, all that ultimately matters is the stylishness and purity of gestures\, not what these gestures yield or produce." (173)\n Date: 09/25 /07\n ID: 12326 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20070925 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20070925 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20081205T132914---d85dcd25-d014-4d58-ab29-fd09d866b26f@shasta.smallthou ght.com CREATED:20081205T132914Z SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:To See PRIORITY:5 DESCRIPTION:Keywords: To See\n Text: Hou Hsaio-hsien's The Puppet Master\n \n Rosenbaum: "[I]f a more awesome and affecting new picture then The Pupp et Master has turned up in Chicago this year [1993]--a movie more relevant to the future of cinema and the twenty-first century--I haven't seen it." \n Date: 10/13/07\n ID: 13078 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20071013 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20071013 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20081205T132914---c6995fcb-0867-4d22-88d0-3ffc2b6c85f6@shasta.smallthou ght.com CREATED:20081205T132914Z SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Film: Godard PRIORITY:5 DESCRIPTION:Keywords: Film: Godard\n Text: Rosenbaum: "[Godard] insisted fr om the beginning that his writing and filmmaking were essentially alternat e vehicles for the same discourse\; his early movies functioned as film cr iticism the same way his reviews anticipated much of his film criticism."\ n \n Date: 10/14/07\n ID: 13147 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20071014 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20071014 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20081205T132914---697ce5fe-7ac1-442f-ab47-7aa00a96e15a@shasta.smallthou ght.com CREATED:20081205T132914Z SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:To See / Paranoia / Improvisation / Postmodernism / Experience / Ti me PRIORITY:5 DESCRIPTION:Keywords: To See / Paranoia / Improvisation / Postmodernism / E xperience / Time\n Text: Rivette\n Out 1\n \n Rosenbaum lists the themes t husly: "Paranois versus Antiparanoia ... The Lure of Nineteenth-Century Ma sterplots ... in Twentieth-Century Mythology. Improvisation and the Fear of Acting in Relation to Existentialism. Duration and Lived Experience." \n \n Sounds grand. Unfortunately never released domestically\n Date: 10/ 19/07\n ID: 15224 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20071019 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20071019 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20081205T132914---a98559ca-123a-40f9-8db4-b5f6b5450862@shasta.smallthou ght.com CREATED:20081205T132914Z SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:FIlm: Tati / Narrative PRIORITY:5 DESCRIPTION:Keywords: FIlm: Tati / Narrative\n Text: Rosenbaum on Tati's "P laytime" and its composition for the frame:\n "[I]f we let our eyes roam\, wander and gambol about the screen\, scanning the totality of the action ... we'll discover multiple relationships between people\, people and obje cts\, live moments and dead moments\, real gags and potential gags that ar e hystercally funy: a geometric vaudeville. Viewed individually\, details might be dull or interesting\; seen together\, they become cosmically fun ny -- comic in a philosophical sense."\n \n also\, similarly:\n \n "In the restaurant [sequence]\, the apparent conflicts between separate points of interest become resolved when we realize that all the wandering strands a re bound up in the same fabric\, and *every* detail on the screen is privi leged in relation to the whole"\n Date: 09/25/07\n ID: 12199 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20070925 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20070925 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20081205T132914---01617057-3945-4c17-92d4-9f7de15bc14f@shasta.smallthou ght.com CREATED:20081205T132914Z SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Film: Akerman / Narrative / To See PRIORITY:5 DESCRIPTION:Keywords: Film: Akerman / Narrative / To See\n Text: Rosenbaum identifies Chantal Akerman as a filmmaker attempting to reconcile love for the purely visual (as in her nonnarrative feature "Hotel Monterey\," 1972 ) with the "narrative and relatively unpainterly" (as in "Je\, Tu. Il\, El le\," 1974)\n \n many of her features\, beginning with 1975's "masterpiece " "Jeanne Dielman\, 23 Quai De Commerce\, 1080 Bruxelles" are "different a ttempts at synthesis" of these two poles\n \n "News From Home" (1977) "a n onnarrative study of Manhattan exteriors accompanied by Akerman reading le tters she received from her mother ... material that inevitably introduces narrative elements"\n \n "Golden Eighties" "defines narrative as an inter locking series of mini-plots"\n \n "Toute Une Nuit" (1982) "is also made u p of multiple mini-plots\, but other than occurring over a single night mo st of them don't interlock"\n Date: 09/25/07\n ID: 12268 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20070925 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20070925 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR