Tag: Cinema of France
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The Oldest Footage – London and NY
I love these wonderful films, taking the early films of London and New York and mapping them, and in the London film actually showing what it’s like today. The films date from 1890 – 1920’s, missing is William Friese-Greene whose 4/5 fps film from 1889 is lost. And probably was a con anyway, his systems…
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Films of Chris Marker
“Nothing distinguishes memories from ordinary moments… Only later do they become memorable by the scars they leave.” I seem to be late to this particular plane – almost 50 years late…but if it wasn’t for La Jetée appearing in a ‘Best 25 Time Travel Films’ – and being 26 minutes I’d have not checked it…
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trust me kid, it’s not the end of the world
They made a video…for probably the most filmic (and real) hip-hop song ever? I missed this – Sage Francis’s ‘Best of Times’ (a collab with Yann Tiersen and actually lead me to check out more of his stuff, his back catalogue as well as Amelie which I knew well is sublime) has an intriguing and…