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Communiqué
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“Kuleshov and I made an interesting experiment”*
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“Remember the early days of the cinema, when directors were afraid to cut up the visual movement on the screen, and how Griffith’s introduction of the close-up was misunderstood and by many labelled an unnatural and consequently an inadmissible method. Audiences in those days even cried:
“Where are their legs!”.
—Pudovkin
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuleshov_Effect
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The Fish That Arises From Nowhere
“Be as ignorant of what you are going to catch as is a fisherman of what is at the end of his fishing rod.”
—Bresson
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“Why I Am Not Working”
“…all that is planned will be unfulfilled—neither I nor the cinema needs this.”
- Lev Kuleshov (1926)
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…in the eyes of the man being whirled about.
“A fight is ensuing: one of the people acting is being flipped over in the heat of the fight – a new point of view: a whirling set decoration…”
-Lev Kuleshov
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Postcardism
“Your film’s beauty will not be in the images (postcardism) but in the ineffable that they will disengage” – Robert Bresson
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