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THE BFI SHOWS
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TWICE FIFTY YEARS
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OF FRENCH CINEMA
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BY ANNE-MARIE MIEVILLE
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AND JEAN-LUC GODARD
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WITH THE
PRESIDENT OF
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THE FIRST CENTURY
OF CINEMA ASSOCIATION
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MR. MICHEL PICCOLI
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and employees of
the Hotel du Lac in X.
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My child, my sister
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Imagine the sweetness
of being there together
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loving at our leisure
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loving unto death
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in the land
that resembles you.
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Are you coming?
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Is anyone there?
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Tea, please.
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And for you?
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The same.
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When Mr. Piccoli arrives,
tell him that I am here.
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Yes, sir.
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This way, Mr. Piccoli,
someone is waiting for you.
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- Michel!
- Jean-Luc!
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Mr. Piccoli, will you
be drinking something?
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A weak coffee, please.
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A glass of water.
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Your room key, Mr. Piccoli.
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That's three
Piccolis in three seconds...
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...this is like
the Piccoli Teatro.
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Are you OK?
Where have you come from?
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Fine. From Lyon.
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Oh yes, the inauguration.
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Yes, the inauguration
of the celebrations...
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...of the first century of cinema,
in Lyon.
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Yes, you are
the President, aren't you?
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I am President...
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...but nobody has
called me Mr. President yet.
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And you are
inaugurating what exactly?
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Let's say announcing: Bertrand
Tavernier, Chardère and the Mayor
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announced the various projects:
the building of a new cinema...
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...the preservation
of the brothers' workshop.
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"The Exit from the Lumière Factory."
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His hangar. Do you know why
they were called Lumière (Light)?
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No.
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It was the grandfather, I believe.
Didn't Bernard tell you?
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I think it was
Auguste and Louis' grandfather.
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He was the candle lighter
in a church in the Haute-Saône.
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We have a project in that valley.
It is the valley of the image, Lyon.
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Invention of cinema,
Niepce, Châlon, Beaune.
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I can't remember who invented
cinema in Beaune. I don't know.
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The valley of the image.
That's one of our ideas.
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Would I "reelly"
make love with memories?
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Reel.
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And this presidential work,
does it take up much of your time?
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A lot of time, yes.
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Simply being called President
doesn't interest me all that much.
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What is a
presidential day actually like?
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Do you have
an office and secretaries?
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We have an office,
a secretary, an administrator...
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...two representatives
whom you know.
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Crombecque and Toubiana...
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...and we try to imagine
how one could celebrate cinema.
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Yes, but let me explain. That's
why I asked you to come here...
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...to do me a favour.
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Why celebrate cinema?
Isn't it famous enough already?
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Or not any more?
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It has been diverted, so to speak.
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What exactly are you celebrating?
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We are celebrating
the first century of cinema.
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We took 1895 as the starting date.
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The first public screening with an
audience that paid to watch a film.
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So you are celebrating
the first commercial exhibition...
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...not production.
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The Lumières' first commercial
exhibition of their invention, cinema.
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You don't celebrate
the fabrication of a camera.
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No, not the fabrication of a camera.
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But we do intend to involve
the industry, the technology...
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...what about cameras in the future,
digital imagery, synthetic imagery?
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I'm trying to
understand more precisely.
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Recently we celebrated
the liberation of Paris.
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What does that mean, to celebrate?
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To celebrate means
to show, to explain...
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...what the invention
of cinema actually was.
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...one of the greatest
inventions of the late 19th century.
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To restore films, showing
films the public never saw.
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Like Méliès films, everybody knows.
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Sorry, but one could, for instance,
not have any festivities...
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...but use fifty television stations,
or the ten French ones at least...
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...to show Méliès films if you want
to show them to a wide public.
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If you only show them to 3000
people once every hundred years.
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I don't want to be rude,
we are all very nice people...
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...but to celebrate something...
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...perhaps that is
in some way to exaggerate...
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...the value of something
one rather neglected of forgot...
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...a way of redeeming oneself,
of making amends.
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For instance, with Méliès' films,
he still had offices in New York.
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He wound up in a shack
by Montparnasse Station.
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But he had offices in New York...
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before the Americans
pinched his business.
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Now, if you wanted to show that.
Restoring films is all very well.
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It takes time
and passion, and indeed...
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...only the French
are doing that, the French State.
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But afterwards, why not
show the films on television?
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But anyway, why not show
them all year long on television?
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Like for the Warsaw ghetto.
That you can celebrate every day.
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The liberation of Paris too.
Every single day.
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As Lewis Carroll said:
"Happy unbirthday!"
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Where we differ is that
you say happy birthday...
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...and I want to say "Happy
Unbirthday" every day of the year.
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Exactly that is why, on television,
we will be showing not Méliès...
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...because we are
at war with his inheritors...
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...but all Lumière's films, not just
"The Exit From the Factory..."
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...everyone has seen that...
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...but the 1400 Lumière films,
one minute per day.
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For how long?
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For 355 days. There is no problem
since there are 1400 films.
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There will be one minute of Lumière
films on television every day.
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One minute
in 24 hours of programmes.
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That is less than the ads.
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Of course, everything
is less than the ads.
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No, they should be shown all day
long. That's what I call celebration.
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Don't misunderstand me,
feasts are honourable things...
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...but if cinema had become
what it should have become...
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...there would be no need to do that.
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But what should it
have become then?
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You too celebrate cinema
because you make film histories.
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No, I don't celebrate.
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I do make film histories
because I occupied a little bit of it...
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...and no one ever
told me what I was doing there.
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And I still do not know
what I am doing here on Earth.
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The British Film Institute
asked us to do something.
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Tavernier was asked to do
something for the hundred years...
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...but he couldn't...
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...so we told them,
rather than showing some clips...
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...that we wanted an argument...
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...like you have
an argument with Méliès people...
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...because they
want money for this and for that.
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Roughly, our idea
is that we do not remember.
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Ask anyone. Just now I asked
the head waiter about "Remorques."
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A blank. Grémillon? Nothing.
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So I said: "Gabin." He had a
vague inkling. Michelle Morgan too.
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But if you say: "Dalio," nothing.
So it was impossible and...
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I thought it would be a good idea...
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...to invite the President into this little
story, since this is a piece of fiction...
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...but do ask them, since
you will be spending the night here.
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I am curious.
I bet that 3/4 of the names...
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...even those from your generation,
will have been forgotten.
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This is France, and
France is a very interesting country.
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I would like to say,
but there is no time...
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...that French cinema
is the only one that had critics.
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Even in the
early days there were critics.
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Delluc, Germaine Dulac, Jean-
Georges Auriol.
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There was this critical dimension.
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In other cinemas,
it was business right away.
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In America, Edison, was commercial
exploitation from the start.
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In France too, but
there was this other dimension.
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There is so much to say about that.
For instance...
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...when you show Feuillade today,
people call it an old film.
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They don't talk of an old book. An
old book is a book in poor condition.
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You do not say that "Don Quixote" is
an old book. Not even an old novel.
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But when you take
Griffith or Gance's "Napoléon,"
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...that is called an old film.
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Cinema was mortal
and it is normal that it should stop.
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But when you restore
these old films and you show them...
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...they are no longer old,
they become marvels of cinema.
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Sure, but that is like a festival,
like the Van Gogh exhibition...
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That doesn't get shown
in every village...
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...so you can see it only once,
if you live in Paris...
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...and you queue in the rain
for three months or you can't see it.
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So from time to time, every 50 years,
like for the concentration camps...
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...this gets shown, but Resnais' film
isn't shown every night on TV.
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Take the Pathé exhibition that is on
now. I have this funny document...
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...don't think I'm being rude,
from the brochure you published...
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...the one with the two brothers.
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Let's show it to the camera,
like they do on television.
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Can it be seen like this?
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More or less. Fine. Please
look at it and tell me what is missing.
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What are the brothers holding?
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A camera.
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No.
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A phonograph and a projector,
no doubt a Pathé Baby.
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Isn't it amazing.
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I make films so I see that
something is missing, the camera.
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And that's the difference with
Edison, who didn't want a projector.
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It is Louis' and Auguste's father
who told his sons: ...
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... You must get the image
to come out of the box.
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And they said: no way, but then
they copied him immediately.
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It would be interesting to show
Alice Guy's films on the first channel.
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But what I wanted to say was that...
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...with the Pathé brothers,
people don't tell the truth.
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They were the very image
of French colonialism.
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Their company was
bigger than Gaumont.
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They were known in China,
they had the whole world.
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Max Linder was
an incredible megastar.
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By the way, did you know
that Max Linder died around here?
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To paint your delicate elegance...
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Your slender waist...
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I will appeal to the soul of Watteau...
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Oh my Columbine
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So you read Shakespeare...
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Yes, he missed some fine things...
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That animal.
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Pathé never made anything.
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First, he copied Edison,
then the Lumières...
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...and then he went into business.
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In all honesty, we are celebrating
the commercial exhibition of films.
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But that is what we are doing.
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Yes, but you have to say so.
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You don't say: it's marvellous
to project a dream onto a wall...
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...and to make people pay 3 dollars.
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You should say:
3 dollars, wonderful.
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Instead you say:
a dream, wonderful.
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Three dollars is wonderful, but that
shouldn't hijack the other marvel.
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You must not point to
one marvel and forget the other...
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...because then it isn't
a marvel anymore but a crime.
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I do not deny that crime exists...
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People have to live...
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You can't take
absolutely everything away from...
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...the poor things...
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...the poor bastards.
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You saw nothing in Hiroshima.
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Hitler, don't know him.
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It is a little like opera.
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France did achieve that with the
New Wave, for Langlois and Franju.
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I brought you this beautiful book
about Langlois imaginary museum.
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You are too optimistic.
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It's a pity that all this has become
like a mini Olympics for cinema.
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...ly superficial.
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And the President...
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...decided to check.
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Excuse me. What?
May I ask you a few questions?
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Can't you see I'm working?
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Just a few questions?
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A photograph,
do you know what that is?
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Of course.
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And do you know who Nadar was?
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No.
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A cartoon, do you know that?
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00:21:55,823 --> 00:21:56,824
Don't be so patronising.
240
00:21:57,491 --> 00:22:02,830
Not at all. Do you know
who Emile Cohl was?
241
00:22:03,497 --> 00:22:05,699
No. I don't care.
I don't want to know.
242
00:22:07,001 --> 00:22:09,103
Gérard Philippe:
"Le Diable au Corps".
243
00:22:10,437 --> 00:22:13,440
Yes. No. It rings a bell.
244
00:22:20,447 --> 00:22:23,984
This time, the awareness of
their guilt leaves them speechless.
245
00:22:26,420 --> 00:22:30,391
Their speechlessness makes
them very aware of their guilt.
246
00:22:33,961 --> 00:22:35,462
Did evil exist?
247
00:22:38,465 --> 00:22:43,637
Man's voice, incorporated into the
weft of the universe, did not reply.
248
00:22:45,806 --> 00:22:49,009
And it almost seemed, there should
be no response before the dawn...
249
00:22:52,146 --> 00:22:53,847
...as if everything was waiting...
250
00:22:56,817 --> 00:22:58,385
...once again waiting
for the dawn star...
251
00:23:02,823 --> 00:23:05,826
...as if nothing else really mattered.
252
00:23:25,079 --> 00:23:32,119
Yes, I have finished.
I spent the day with Jean-Luc.
253
00:23:34,421 --> 00:23:42,463
I am not really acting in this film.
254
00:23:43,430 --> 00:23:45,766
And the ghosts...
255
00:23:48,469 --> 00:23:54,007
He is making a film for the BFI
on 100 years of French Cinema.
256
00:23:58,112 --> 00:24:01,482
No, it is not part of
his histories of cinema.
257
00:24:02,783 --> 00:24:04,351
He is still working on those.
258
00:24:07,454 --> 00:24:14,428
We discussed the Association
for the first century of cinema...
259
00:24:15,929 --> 00:24:22,102
...what are you planning and so on
to celebrate the century of cinema.
260
00:24:29,443 --> 00:24:32,446
He thinks nobody remembers
what happened anymore...
261
00:24:32,780 --> 00:24:38,418
...because nobody has ever
really told the story of cinema.
262
00:24:43,457 --> 00:24:47,194
Maybe they still recall Michèle
Morgan or Jean Gabin...
263
00:24:47,294 --> 00:24:56,470
...but nobody remembers Le Vigan,
maybe not even von Stroheim.
264
00:24:58,472 --> 00:25:01,508
No, I came mainly
because I like to see him...
265
00:25:02,142 --> 00:25:09,416
...and he makes me think
about my role as President.
266
00:25:10,350 --> 00:25:16,490
It isn't only about memory
and the 100 years of cinema...
267
00:25:19,927 --> 00:25:23,430
...but I would have like the
association to have been called...
268
00:25:23,564 --> 00:25:31,104
Keep your candle straight.
269
00:25:48,388 --> 00:25:54,962
Mirrors should reflect
before sending an image back.
270
00:25:55,462 --> 00:25:58,465
Good evening. Can I put that here?
271
00:25:58,765 --> 00:26:09,309
No, here please. Thanks. What is it?
272
00:26:10,410 --> 00:26:14,448
Videos. Some guests
like them for the night.
273
00:26:15,048 --> 00:26:16,083
There are some very good ones.
274
00:26:17,417 --> 00:26:18,752
You never go to the cinema?
275
00:26:20,087 --> 00:26:24,591
There used to be a cinema here,
but it closed a long time ago...
276
00:26:26,393 --> 00:26:31,298
...before I was born.
Can I have an autograph?
277
00:26:32,399 --> 00:26:36,470
Yes, but let me first ask a few
questions. Ever heard of Annabella?
278
00:26:38,572 --> 00:26:39,806
No sir.
279
00:26:49,750 --> 00:26:53,287
Or of Dita Parlo?
280
00:26:54,588 --> 00:26:55,989
No sir.
281
00:26:58,458 --> 00:26:59,459
Albert Préjean?
282
00:27:01,461 --> 00:27:02,462
No sir.
283
00:27:03,463 --> 00:27:05,465
You do not know Albert Préjean?
284
00:27:06,433 --> 00:27:11,004
No, but I do know
Arnold Schwarzenegger.
285
00:27:12,372 --> 00:27:14,308
And "La Grande Illusion"?
286
00:27:17,077 --> 00:27:20,147
No, but I do know Madonna.
287
00:27:34,394 --> 00:27:35,429
Intelligence is...
288
00:27:35,562 --> 00:27:38,532
...to understand
before you assert something.
289
00:27:38,932 --> 00:27:40,968
It is, within a given unity,
to push things to...
290
00:27:41,268 --> 00:27:44,972
...the limit, to find the opposite;
so it is to try to understand others...
291
00:27:45,939 --> 00:27:48,442
...or between one's self and the
other, the pro and the contra...
292
00:27:48,608 --> 00:27:51,111
...little by little to find
one's own modest path.
293
00:27:51,445 --> 00:27:56,450
I know this intellectual ethos
is not very popular nowadays...
294
00:27:56,717 --> 00:27:58,485
...today people love
clear distinctions...
295
00:27:58,785 --> 00:28:03,457
...and something in between black
and white is a very grey business.
296
00:28:05,525 --> 00:28:07,928
But it is the fanatic and
the dogmatic who is boring...
297
00:28:08,028 --> 00:28:10,330
...because you always know in
advance what they are going to say.
298
00:28:10,364 --> 00:28:14,434
Not sceptics, but people
who love parodies are amusing...
299
00:28:14,434 --> 00:28:15,402
...and a paradox is...
300
00:28:15,569 --> 00:28:18,605
...when facing the obvious,
to look for some other idea.
301
00:28:19,373 --> 00:28:21,942
Today people dislike compromise...
302
00:28:22,376 --> 00:28:26,413
...but compromise is a beautiful and
courageous intellectual operation.
303
00:28:27,247 --> 00:28:30,450
It is regarded pejoratively in the
sense of compromising oneself,...
304
00:28:30,584 --> 00:28:33,420
...in spite of all that, I will go on...
305
00:28:33,754 --> 00:28:37,791
...thinking that one should aim
for a sensible synthesis...
306
00:28:38,091 --> 00:28:41,094
...and I will go on saying that
the world isn't as simple as all that...
307
00:28:41,428 --> 00:28:43,130
...and that the world
is not totally absurd.
308
00:28:43,930 --> 00:28:50,971
Intelligence is to try to put
some rationality into that absurdity.
309
00:29:10,390 --> 00:29:18,398
Max Linder...
...77 times 7 years of misfortune.
310
00:29:27,374 --> 00:29:32,412
Help...help.
311
00:29:32,512 --> 00:29:35,449
Max Linder's last words.
312
00:29:35,916 --> 00:29:41,421
Help...help...help.
313
00:29:53,433 --> 00:29:58,105
I would like a newspaper, please.
"Le Monde"? "Libération"?
314
00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:05,512
"Le Figaro" then, and breakfast.
Only tea, please.
315
00:30:40,514 --> 00:30:49,489
Is Mr. Godard there? Please tell
him Michel Piccoli called. Thanks.
316
00:31:03,103 --> 00:31:05,305
It would have been a film.
It is a film. Yes.
317
00:31:07,474 --> 00:31:12,812
Good morning.
This has been left for you.
318
00:31:13,446 --> 00:31:21,488
Thanks. May I ask a few questions?
319
00:31:24,457 --> 00:31:27,494
Does the name Jacques Becker
mean anything to you?
320
00:31:30,964 --> 00:31:36,803
Boris Becker, not Jacques.
He's a great server, like me.
321
00:31:41,474 --> 00:31:45,512
Have you heard of a film called
"Les dames du bois de Boulogne"?
322
00:31:49,482 --> 00:32:00,493
I know "Beverly Hills Cop" and
"Natural Born Killers", "Pulp Fiction".
323
00:32:01,528 --> 00:32:03,163
Do you like that kind of film?
324
00:32:03,496 --> 00:32:10,470
Yes, a lot of violence, real butchery.
I know "9 1/2 Weeks".
325
00:32:11,438 --> 00:32:12,472
You like that too?
326
00:32:13,073 --> 00:32:14,474
Oh yes. Lots of naked thighs.
327
00:32:45,472 --> 00:32:51,011
It's me. Are you new?
I am the President.
328
00:32:52,479 --> 00:32:57,150
Listen, there is an idea for a
Baudelaire Charles Cros evening.
329
00:32:58,485 --> 00:33:07,027
So tell Toubiana to reread "The
Voyage", "Païni" too, and CNC...
330
00:33:09,396 --> 00:33:11,431
Sorry, I will come back later.
331
00:33:11,598 --> 00:33:12,666
Go ahead...
332
00:33:13,433 --> 00:33:16,469
...because at the CNC
they never noticed,...
333
00:33:17,370 --> 00:33:26,212
...The Claw Necklace,
yes, the necklace of...
334
00:33:26,446 --> 00:33:33,486
...Agfa, of Kodak, the claws
of Arriflex, of Panavision...
335
00:33:36,122 --> 00:33:37,257
...so that's it.
336
00:33:43,463 --> 00:33:49,369
Anyway, I am not going
to play my death for a tragedy.
337
00:33:54,507 --> 00:33:57,143
Have you heard of "Lumière d'été"?
338
00:33:57,777 --> 00:34:03,016
Summer Light? In winter? No Sir.
339
00:34:08,421 --> 00:34:09,989
"La môme vert de gris"?
340
00:34:12,425 --> 00:34:13,426
"La môme vert" what?
341
00:34:17,430 --> 00:34:18,431
"La règle du jeu"?
342
00:34:19,399 --> 00:34:20,433
No.
343
00:34:23,436 --> 00:34:24,971
"Les dernières vacances"?
344
00:34:25,472 --> 00:34:26,473
No.
345
00:34:28,942 --> 00:34:29,943
"Le Paradis Perdu"?
346
00:34:30,777 --> 00:34:32,011
Never heard of it.
347
00:34:35,448 --> 00:34:36,983
"Sylvie et le fantôme"?
348
00:34:37,951 --> 00:34:39,986
Sorry, no.
349
00:34:42,455 --> 00:34:43,990
"Touchez pas au grisbi"?
350
00:34:44,457 --> 00:34:45,458
No.
351
00:34:48,461 --> 00:34:49,496
"Les anges du péché"?
352
00:34:50,430 --> 00:34:51,464
Nothing.
353
00:34:56,436 --> 00:34:57,470
"Adieu Philippine"?
354
00:35:07,580 --> 00:35:16,356
Mirrors should reflect
before sending an image back.
355
00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:38,471
Mirrors reflect too much...
356
00:36:40,440 --> 00:36:46,713
They invert images...
357
00:36:49,415 --> 00:36:52,752
And think themselves profound.
358
00:37:24,417 --> 00:37:25,451
Thanks for the books.
359
00:37:31,424 --> 00:37:36,095
Remember that story about that
guy who, all alone in the cinema...
360
00:37:36,429 --> 00:37:41,467
...kept mumbling to himself
'Incredible' but stayed till the end.
361
00:37:41,601 --> 00:37:42,969
Which film was he seeing?
362
00:37:51,444 --> 00:37:52,445
"Pickpocket".
363
00:37:55,448 --> 00:37:56,449
That does indeed
stay close to the ground.
364
00:37:59,619 --> 00:38:02,488
The hell with the whole thing.
365
00:38:03,423 --> 00:38:07,360
Horrible, horrible.
366
00:38:20,406 --> 00:38:30,450
Charles Cros. 1886.
367
00:38:31,417 --> 00:38:35,455
Times are hard.
He is living hand to mouth.
368
00:38:38,391 --> 00:38:39,425
They all died in misery.
369
00:38:44,430 --> 00:38:47,133
Charles Baudelaire.
370
00:38:53,106 --> 00:38:56,809
We want to travel,
without steam, without sails.
371
00:38:58,444 --> 00:39:00,446
To entertain us
in our tedious prisions,...
372
00:39:01,114 --> 00:39:04,984
...project onto our minds,
taut like a screen,...
373
00:39:06,452 --> 00:39:09,389
...your memories
within the frame of their horizon.
374
00:39:15,395 --> 00:39:17,430
It is true: that does
foreshadow cinema.
375
00:39:19,399 --> 00:39:20,933
Say, what did you see?
376
00:39:24,904 --> 00:39:31,377
We have seen stars,
waves and deserts,...
377
00:39:32,412 --> 00:39:37,950
...and in spite of shocks and
unforeseen disasters, we're bored.
378
00:40:21,461 --> 00:40:26,132
Do you know E.A. Poe's
famous poem "The Raven"?
379
00:40:26,466 --> 00:40:27,467
The cab is here, sir.
380
00:40:28,101 --> 00:40:29,168
...And its melancholy refrain...
381
00:40:29,469 --> 00:40:30,470
Let me take your suitcase.
382
00:40:31,471 --> 00:40:32,505
...Never more...
383
00:40:32,939 --> 00:40:34,974
Please sign the Visitor's Book.
384
00:40:36,476 --> 00:40:40,513
It is the theme
enounced by the lugubrious host...
385
00:40:45,151 --> 00:40:51,491
...his only burden of knowledge as
Baudelaire says in his translation,...
386
00:40:53,493 --> 00:40:59,198
...and the word with only a few
sounds, but so rich in meaning...
387
00:40:59,532 --> 00:41:12,478
...signalling a negation of any
possible future, with only 7 sounds...
388
00:41:13,446 --> 00:41:25,491
...because Poe insists that the most
'producible' final R be sounded...
389
00:41:30,463 --> 00:41:37,470
...and yet the refrain is capable
of conveying us far into the future...
390
00:41:38,971 --> 00:41:40,206
...even into eternity.
391
00:41:40,373 --> 00:41:45,311
Oh. You haven't
always been so fatalistic.
392
00:41:45,478 --> 00:41:47,146
Hurry up, I will settle the bill.
393
00:41:47,814 --> 00:41:48,815
I am coming.
394
00:41:49,182 --> 00:41:51,117
-What are you reading?
-That is my business. I am coming.
395
00:41:51,150 --> 00:41:53,085
If you want, the result is the same.
396
00:41:54,487 --> 00:41:55,488
Mr. Piccoli...
397
00:41:59,492 --> 00:42:02,495
Mr. Piccoli,...
...do you have a moment?
398
00:42:19,846 --> 00:42:23,449
The lethal tedium of immortality.
399
00:42:28,421 --> 00:42:29,455
Dominique Coedel.
400
00:42:29,622 --> 00:42:30,690
Good morning.
401
00:42:30,957 --> 00:42:33,993
You may have known
my father, Lucien Coedel.
402
00:42:35,962 --> 00:42:38,197
I remember...
403
00:42:38,798 --> 00:42:41,334
They never talked
about him in any of his films...
404
00:42:41,634 --> 00:42:43,836
...but the critics always
ended their review with: ...
405
00:42:44,136 --> 00:42:47,473
'Let us not forget
the excellent Lucien Coedel'.
406
00:42:53,145 --> 00:42:54,146
Goodbye.
407
00:42:54,480 --> 00:42:55,514
-Dominique, hurry up.
-Yes.
408
00:42:56,482 --> 00:42:59,352
I do not like married women.
I hate cowardly men.
409
00:42:59,485 --> 00:43:00,686
Lola Montes.
410
00:43:00,987 --> 00:43:05,491
-Jacques Natanson. Goodbye.
-Goodbye and bravo.
411
00:43:06,325 --> 00:43:07,393
Is the cab for you?
412
00:43:07,493 --> 00:43:09,996
The Visitor's Book, Sir.
413
00:43:10,429 --> 00:43:11,631
Oh, leave it in peace.
414
00:43:16,435 --> 00:43:23,409
And the President celebrated
something or other French in...
415
00:43:24,944 --> 00:43:31,150
...what the powers that be
called the first century of cinema...
416
00:43:32,418 --> 00:43:38,090
And the ghosts went away also,
forgetting...
417
00:43:39,392 --> 00:43:44,330
...to thank for their contributions...
418
00:43:48,467 --> 00:43:49,235
"Letter on the Blind"
419
00:43:53,472 --> 00:43:55,808
All I have gasped
of light and shadow...
420
00:44:05,985 --> 00:44:07,954
For the world to be
according to my wishes...
421
00:44:08,421 --> 00:44:11,424
It would have to unfold
in a circle around me...
422
00:44:11,757 --> 00:44:14,427
With me in the middle,
in an easy chair...
423
00:44:14,627 --> 00:44:17,430
So that I may admire
what is rare and beautiful.
424
00:44:26,439 --> 00:44:28,074
Art history.
425
00:44:30,109 --> 00:44:31,477
"The spirit of forms"
426
00:44:39,452 --> 00:44:44,490
By turning to the thin layer
of rich and lazy do-nothings...
427
00:44:44,957 --> 00:44:47,827
...French cinema lost
its international audience.
428
00:44:57,470 --> 00:44:59,472
"The intelligence of a machine"
429
00:45:00,473 --> 00:45:03,509
...Avant-garde et Rear-garde.
430
00:45:22,428 --> 00:45:27,433
The art of cinema is to make
pretty women do pretty things.
431
00:45:37,443 --> 00:45:40,479
Outline for a
"Psychology of Cinema".
432
00:45:54,460 --> 00:45:56,996
When I admire a film, I am told:
433
00:45:57,496 --> 00:45:59,498
...yes, it is very beautiful,
but it isn't cinema.
434
00:46:00,433 --> 00:46:02,468
...so I started asking myself.
435
00:46:08,374 --> 00:46:11,410
"Notes on the cinema".
436
00:46:22,421 --> 00:46:26,459
Perspective was the
original sin of western painting.
437
00:46:27,426 --> 00:46:29,428
Niepce and Lumière redeemed it.
438
00:46:41,440 --> 00:46:45,111
The opposite space
seems to be the general form...
439
00:46:45,444 --> 00:46:48,948
...of its most essential sensibility...
440
00:46:50,449 --> 00:46:53,486
...to the extent that cinema
is an art of vision.
441
00:47:08,400 --> 00:47:11,437
French cinema is croaking
under the weight of false legends.
442
00:47:19,378 --> 00:47:23,449
On the screen, a deliberate curve
outlines without fixing it...
443
00:47:24,116 --> 00:47:28,954
...the most lively colour,
a broken line, though unique...
444
00:47:29,421 --> 00:47:32,458
......it encircles the most
miraculously living matter.
445
00:47:46,438 --> 00:47:47,806
Alternative cinema
446
00:47:48,474 --> 00:47:49,475
The written image
447
00:47:50,442 --> 00:47:51,477
The other cinema
448
00:48:08,427 --> 00:48:11,931
The cinema has great difficulty
accompanying the present era...
449
00:48:12,398 --> 00:48:15,434
...which it, in part,
called forth and nourished.
450
00:48:15,701 --> 00:48:17,269
Perhaps this is normal.
451
00:48:35,921 --> 00:48:38,090
The god sighed and said, sadly:
452
00:48:39,425 --> 00:48:41,460
I will always cry over you.
453
00:48:41,493 --> 00:48:43,429
You will always cry over the others...
454
00:48:43,762 --> 00:48:45,798
...and you will feel
solidarity with their pain.
455
00:49:03,983 --> 00:49:06,819
The End
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