http://blog.johnmenick.com Art, film, prose, and politics Wed, 21 Jul 2010 02:02:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 http://blog.johnmenick.com/2007/01/jose-carlos-avellar-gives-props-to-rosalind-krauss-in-variety http://blog.johnmenick.com/2007/01/jose-carlos-avellar-gives-props-to-rosalind-krauss-in-variety#comments Wed, 03 Jan 2007 22:54:24 +0000 John Menick http://localhost/johnmenick/blog/2007/01/03/jose-carlos-avellar-gives-props-to-rosalind-krauss-in-variety Avellar: I enjoy reading other critics, not only film critics but also art and literature critics -- just coming to mind is some writing by Rosalind Krauss, for example. I think I started to write about cinema after reading the texts by (Sergei) Eisenstein that gave me the feeling that to write and read about films could be as good as seeing or making a film. And still today, I remember how good the feeling was to read for the first time not only Eisenstein (it is a very special case, of course) but also (Andre) Bazin, (Jean) Epstein, (Pier Paolo) Pasolini, (Siegfried) Kracauer. ... In this field, some anthologies or essay books -- as in Brazil, the ones by Ismail Xavier and Jean-Claude Bernardet -- are a good help. Worth a read.]]> http://blog.johnmenick.com/2007/01/jose-carlos-avellar-gives-props-to-rosalind-krauss-in-variety/feed 0 http://blog.johnmenick.com/2006/11/zizek-in-sophie-fiennes-documentary-the-perverts-guide-to-cinema http://blog.johnmenick.com/2006/11/zizek-in-sophie-fiennes-documentary-the-perverts-guide-to-cinema#comments Sun, 05 Nov 2006 23:47:09 +0000 John Menick http://localhost/johnmenick/blog/2006/11/05/zizek-in-sophie-fiennes-documentary-the-perverts-guide-to-cinema ]]> http://blog.johnmenick.com/2006/11/zizek-in-sophie-fiennes-documentary-the-perverts-guide-to-cinema/feed 0 http://blog.johnmenick.com/2006/10/serge-daney-on-catastrophe http://blog.johnmenick.com/2006/10/serge-daney-on-catastrophe#comments Thu, 26 Oct 2006 16:13:10 +0000 John Menick http://localhost/johnmenick/blog/2006/10/26/serge-daney-on-catastrophe rough translation from Serge Daney in English:]]> http://blog.johnmenick.com/2006/10/serge-daney-on-catastrophe/feed 0 http://blog.johnmenick.com/2006/05/the-history-of-a-second-godards-moments-choisis-des-histoires-du-cinema http://blog.johnmenick.com/2006/05/the-history-of-a-second-godards-moments-choisis-des-histoires-du-cinema#comments Mon, 29 May 2006 17:35:13 +0000 John Menick http://localhost/johnmenick/blog/2006/05/29/the-history-of-a-second-godards-moments-choisis-des-histoires-du-cinema Bright Lights film journal decides to publish its online content like a print journal, which means quarterly, and which also means avid fans such as my self only check in a few times a year. (At least give us some weekly content!) Issue 52 is out, and Robert Keser's article on Godard's Moments Choisis des Histoire(s) du Cinéma is worth a look. It also jogged a memory of the film's premier in New York a few years ago.]]> http://blog.johnmenick.com/2006/05/the-history-of-a-second-godards-moments-choisis-des-histoires-du-cinema/feed 2 http://blog.johnmenick.com/2006/03/ren-clair%e2%80%99s-paris-qui-dort-notes-towards-a-general-outline-of-apocalyptic-films-part-i http://blog.johnmenick.com/2006/03/ren-clair%e2%80%99s-paris-qui-dort-notes-towards-a-general-outline-of-apocalyptic-films-part-i#comments Tue, 28 Mar 2006 00:20:52 +0000 John Menick http://localhost/johnmenick/blog/2006/03/27/ren-clair%e2%80%99s-paris-qui-dort-notes-towards-a-general-outline-of-apocalyptic-films-part-i If one were to make a chronological list of ‘last-person-on-earth’ films, somewhere near the top, if not leading the list, would be René Clair’s 1924 silent short, Paris qui dort. Called alternatively in English Paris Asleep, The Crazy Ray and At 3:25, and inexplicably expanded to longer running times by distributors, Paris qui dort is currently available in the US in the director’s preferred 35-minute form as an extra on Criterion’s release of Under the Roofs of Paris.]]> http://blog.johnmenick.com/2006/03/ren-clair%e2%80%99s-paris-qui-dort-notes-towards-a-general-outline-of-apocalyptic-films-part-i/feed 0