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Young Death Quadrilogy

Here are the trailers from Gus Van Sant's Young Death Quadrilogy.

Gerry


Elephant


Last Days


Paranoid Park


Have lots of Lithium on hand.

Not Too Novel a Hypothesis

Norman Mailer's theory on casting actors:

He liked to take people who were able to talk themselves in and out of trouble, and cast them in situations which he tried to make sufficiently intense so that they would not be too aware of the camera. Whether they had ever acted before, did not often concern him. It was his theory--not too novel an hypothesis--that many people who had never acted, and could never begin to act on stage without training, still had several extraordinary characterizations they could bring film provided they spoke their own words and had no script to remember.

This is not overly interesting, but it is worth watching nonetheless...at least part of it.

Movie of the Week, 8/31

Macaroni & Cheese!

National Center for Experiments in Television

"Machines that show the human organism itself as a working model may eventually destroy the need for psychology as we know it today." -Les Levine

"A medium is available. A very sophisticated, complex technology which human beings invested is available to us. It is dumb, inarticulate, contains no magic. It is available and manageable and probably stunningly beautiful when managed by graceful people who are bent on acts of expression.... This newer medium is swift in nature. It demands a new kind of perception. It moves like light sparked into life as through a nervous prism. It is another paint, another dance, another music of sound. Another message meant to catch the quick vision of the inner eye."
Brice Howard, Videospace, 1972

The above videos are parts 2 & 3 of a six segment video, all of which are available on youtube for your viewing pleasure if you're interested.

you're gonna miss me.

edit: i just realized that this isn't the documentary that i watched but rather one from 1983. probably still interesting but i haven't watched it yet. still try to get your hands on the 2005 documentary if it's at all possible.