Status Updates From The Films of John Cassavete...

“(In films like Casablanca or Psycho) conceptions are easier to deal with than perceptions.”

“The contemplative turn out of bodily and expressive life that speaks to a deep cultural need…the turn of which for Cassavetes is a turn out of life.”

“Visionary stylistics makes unmediated expressions possible…communication becomes a form of mind reading.
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“In so far as pov shooting and editing presents experience in terms of glances and visions, it reinforces this narrative project by offering an almost purely disembodied, nonsensory, derealized model of experience.

“Kane ‘is’ the effects of the mise en scène, the lighting, the focal length of the lenses used(…)

In Welles there are plenty of ideas abt exp and metaphors for exp, but very little actual perceptual experience. (The dining montage that alludes Kane’s doomed 1st marriage as an example.)

In Welles there are plenty of ideas abt exp and metaphors for exp, but very little actual perceptual experience. (The dining montage that alludes Kane’s doomed 1st marriage as an example.)

“There is nothing but surface”

Skipped to certain chapter tbh but quite interesting read