en-US Mon, 05 Feb 2024 12:07:08 -0800 60 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Review6236624438 Mon, 05 Feb 2024 12:07:08 -0800 /review/show/6236624438 Connor has read Fassbinder: Thousands of Mirrors (Paperback) by Ian Penman
'You can always turn up at a cinema and it will take you in, give you all its time and space and tell you a story with an ending of one kind or another but always an ending all the same.' (36)

'An orphan, adopted by cinema.' (37)

'The crime of a languorous and unproductive time, spent idling entirely inside reverie and dream.' (37)

'This artificial life that seems more real than the one he and we and everyone else has to live...What it feels like is he is dreaming awake.' (38)

'Like the analytic hour the film always has an end.' (38)

'Beseeching eyes like the distant planets...Unfathomable sense of shock, anxiety, fear. But also a kind of creeping fascination, an inability to look away.' (44)

'A baby as a hidden microphone bug or surveillance camera: as yet it has no real subjective agency.' (46)

'The monument is the first means of mass communication...the audio-visual media are the heirs of the monument. - Paul Virilio.' (49)

'Isn't terror in fact its mirror-image doppelganger or twin? (of Consumer Society)' (61)

'Benjamin is a spy in the house of object love. He chastely autopsies the dead zone of consumer display, but is secretly aware of the urge to handle, fondle, purchase, collect.' (71)

'The double, after Freud: the idea of someone inside us we don't really know, acting without our permission, directing the show, scripting our part.' (74)

'Why are so many of his characters framed by mirrors? A troubling feeling of not being entirely at home in the body... What is haunting about mirrors is their emptiness, their lack of depth.' (76)

'Baudelaire, Aragon, Benjamin, Debord. All these 'men of the crowd' as beady-eyed phantoms, drinking, drugging, cruising one another's traces.' (78)

'(Rumour from set of Heaven Can Wait) Julie Christie was in fact saying to Beatty something along the lines of; 'I can't believe you're still wasting your talent on this kind of shit. There are people like Fassbinder in Europe doing brilliant work right now' (90)

'(The) Imp of perversity turned into the angel of history.' (93)

'Un-health as total efficiency.' (96)

'No place in society for the Ugly. Forever out of place, it is something that cannot be co-opted, appropriated, turned into a new consumer fetish... It's somehow never the right time for a celebration of the flagrantly ugly.' (97)

'He wants to jerk us awake from the grey abeyance of our commodified sleepwalk... At the same time, he demands huge payments in cash (mainly so he can further pretzel himself with cocaine).' (102)

'Both dream of outsize films that stretch time and reformat our collective reverie.' (112)

'Cinema as a phantasmal circle of rare fixed points, references, imaginary friends.' (113)

'An irreducible loneliness at home with your family; an unvoiced, keening loneliness with the one you share your life with.' (113)

'Taking the deliberate decision to live a short life but live it intensely.' (130)

'To articulate the past historically does not mean to recognize it "the way it really was." It means to seize hold of a memory as it flashes up at a moment of danger...' -Walter Benjamin' (133)

'He wanted to seduce all of us sitting out in the cinema, in the same way he seduced people everywhere else.' (145)

'When ugliness has finally reclaimed beauty. That is luxury. -Fassbinder' (164)

'People who are not able to look at the street will never be able to understand class struggle.' -Jonathan Rosebaum' (167)

'Modern individualism, as it has developed since the Renaissance, concerns itself with the role that is played rather than with this unique person whose secret remains hidden behind the social mask.' - Jacques Derrida' (188) ]]> ReadStatus7551447176 Sun, 04 Feb 2024 23:27:25 -0800 /review/show/6236624815 Connor has read Demian by Hermann Hesse
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