'Luc Lagier is a young French film specialist, critic, director of montage-based 'phantom' documentary films, and head of the independent film production company Camera Lucida. He is best known outside of France for two films: Dans le labyrinth de Marienbad (2005), a poetic study of Alain Resnais' Last Year at Marienbad constructed of archival footage and 'starring' Cary Grant, Alfred Hitchcock, Jack Nicholson and others, and Godard Made in USA (2010). One of his current projects is a television series for the French/German TV channel Arte entitled Blow Up, for which he constructs 4 minute long consolidations or 'resonances' of historical film footage which have so far included 'studies' of the details in David Lynch films, the use of elevators in the work of Brian De Palma, the history of snow and rain scenes in movies, and the performances of actors and musicians such as Kim Novak, Sylvester Stallone, Bob Dylan, and Tom Cruise at the age of 22, among others. His books include Mythes et Masques: les fantômes de John Carpenter, Hiroshima le temps dun retour: Alain Resnais, four studies of the work of Brian De Palma, on whom Lagier is considered the leading French expert, and a forthcoming book on the history of horror movies.' -- Objectif Cinéma
Further (if you speak French)
Let it snow
Letter to Gus Van Sant
Comme des trains dans la nuit
Elevators (De Palma)
Resnais in 4 minutes
Eyes without a face
I, Tom Cruise, 22 years old
Like tears in the rain
Trailer De Palma
Top 5 Bob Dylan
Kim Novak in 'Le Mépris'
Dear Scottie
Gainsbourg meets Dunaway
Trailer Hitchcock
Details David Lynch
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p.s. Hey from Oslo where it's, wow, cold. I'll say what more there is to say to Itmpw down below. One of the main performers in 'I Apologize' is ill and can't come to Oslo for the shows tomorrow and Sunday, so we have to spend the day working with a fill-in and revamping the piece somewhat, so, if I seem speedy in the p.s., it's 'cos I have to trudge through the snow and sub-zero temperatures to the theater rather shortly. Oh, just as a side note of interest or not, in addition to liking today's blog star Luc Lagier's work -- and those who pay attention to my image stack posts here will probably see why I feel an interest and connection -- he has recently become a collaborator with Gisele, Peter, Stephen, and I on one of the 'Last Spring' prequel pieces we're currently engaged in creating, so the post is also sort of part of the loose series that is related to my research and focus re: that theater/ installation work-in-progress. And, oh, if you're in or around Brooklyn tonight, 7:30 pm, LHotB star Lonely Christopher is reading at Unnameable Books (600 Vanderbilt Avenue, Prospect Heights) with Dale Peck and Rachel Levitsky. Info on the location and directions are here. Please make it there if you can. So, again, I have to be kind of hurried today, sorry. ** Wednesday ** David Ehrenstein, Nice 'Mildred Pierce' trailer. Looks promising. ** Memoirs of a Heroinhead, Hey, Shane! Superb to see you, man. Yeah, like I was saying to Joe, the 'WfJ' into novel trajectory is a great idea and a natural. Very excited to see what happens to it when it's fully at home in the novel form. Very cool. And of course the thing on Tony was really nice, really well put. Kudos. Well, you're always here even when you're not here. Hm, that sounded kind of fascist or something, but you know what I mean. ** Empty Frame, Your weather sounds like Oslo weather, but I think it's a common effect here. It's like white with things sticking out of it here and there. Hang in there about Seb, man, and, yeah, I'm sorry. That parliament act is pretty trippy. Go for it. It sounds like something that would a lot of relative life in it. ** Trees, I'm definitely not layered up enough, but I don't think I'll die exactly. We'll see. So, you're back in Oakland now. You'd move to Brooklyn, NYC, that sort of thing? NYC has its issues, but it does seem perpetually anti-trough, for better and worse. Cool about the lecture and everything else. Sorry to have to scurry today. Great to see you! ** Jax, I've not seen much of Oslo yet, but I like it. It looks newer than I thought it would. I think I'll get to see some more today if I can keep myself warm enough. Stephen found this informal Black Metal museum-ette that covers the history and has lots of BM memorabilia and that sounds amazing, and I'm going to try to see that for sure. Yikes, I hope your eye normalized, man. ** James, Wow, great 'Golden Boys'-related reverie. I have a bunch of heady related memories myself, but I'm too rushed to get into them. I'm pretty sure that when 'TMS' comes out, I'll read in LA. I'd be quite shocked if that didn't happen. I'll let you know when the touring stuff becomes an issue and my publishers starts sorting that out. Thanks, James! ** Dan Callahan, Hi, Dan! Thanks for the link. Everybody, writer and d.l. Dan Callahan recently interviewed the heavily up and coming young film director Xavier Dolan, whose new film 'Heartbeats' is supposed to be quite, quite good and is opening in the States right about now, and you can read said interview at Slant Magazine and more specifically here. I'll get to read that tonight, I hope. Thanks much, Dan. ** Sypha, Hey. Well, I guess be careful not to judge him if he's that judgement-sensitive. Curious. ** The Dreadful Flying Glove, Hey right back to you. So far so good on the trip thing. Hope you're doing great. ** Ken Baumann, Ken! Way happy, man. I really hope I can be there when it realizes. More soon. Stay the best. ** Alexp336, Hi. The cold is wild. The real problem is the iced over sidewalks that I have to traverse. Hard in any case, but, after slipping and falling on an icy sidewalk in Moscow some years back and breaking both of my wrists, I have a icy sidewalk phobia of sorts. One should stop flirting with 18 year olds at the age 30? Oh, please, cut me some slack, old man, ha ha. I guess my eyes will tell me the tale on the 3DS. I probably won't get one 'cos I need a new laptop badly, and since Apple seems have discontinued the Macbook, I'll need to get one of those new Pros, and that'll swipe my gadget money for a while. May for Paris will probably work in terms of me being there. That's when my sched starts easing up a bit. Hope the review got written. Talk to you next time. ** Steevee, Hey. Jeff seems to have erased what you were responding to, but I think I get it. Yo-Yo Dieting is pretty nice, I think so too. ** Wolf, Well, you are. I.e., nice. I was hoping I didn't blow your cover. Oh, yumso, on the package! You're better than nice. You're ... extravagantly nice. I haven't heard from Kier in a while, and I think he lives pretty far from Oslo, but, if I see him, he'll get your hug, you bet. ** Bernard Welt, Hi, B. I think that GB segment was the most popular yet. Or people are starting to step up. In any case, all my thanks, as ever. ** Pilgarlic, Hey. Yeah, that's the right address. Thanks! I'll go find it once I get some hotel downtime later. Man, I'm so very sorry about possibly losing the island house. I'll try to find or remember a relevant, wise song lyric quote for you somewhere today. ** Andrew, Hi. No, I don't even know that Danish film. I can't remember where I got dwarf character/idea. I think there was a specific influence, but I'm spacing on it. ** Misanthrope, Ha ha, having a quite voluminous 70s porn collection, I think I can say that the cock predominance in those posts is entirely Bernard's doing. Oh please, about your heart. One could make winter gloves out of that sucker. ** Creative Massacre, Thanks a lot, pal. So far, so safe. ** Thursday ** John, Hi, welcome, thank you! ** Chris Cochrane, He is indeed! Larry-bob is one of my true heroes. ** David Ehrenstein, Absolutely, yes, Larry-bob for President. Thanks for the letter link. Yeah, I wonder if the ceasing of the defense will make a real difference vis a vis DOMA's repeal itself? It's so hard to hope for breakthroughs at this point, but, gosh, maybe. ** Math, Hey, Math. ** Memoirs of a Heroinhead, Two days in row! (I was going to say to say two days straight, but, uh ... ha ha.) Oh, wow, cool about the sidebar thing! Can I use it as a real sidebar thing here? I could use one, and it's pretty right there. Thanks, Shane! ** Bacteriaburger, Hi, N. Oh, sure, of course you can use that as a blurb. I'd be honored to have my words grace your tome. Thank you, man! ** Oscar B, Oscar! It's cold but not too metally yet. Oh, cool, about your show stuff. I'll get to savor that when I get back to the hotel tonight. Everyone, the great artist O.B. De Alessi aka d.l. Oscar B had a show in London recently, which I mentioned here a short while back. Well, said show is now heavily and beautifully illustrated with pix and vids on Oscar's blog, and it's a feast, I tell you, so please head over there post-haste and glory in the glory, please. It's amazing stuff, and you'll be oh so glad you did. Awesome! ** Pilgarlic, Ongoing and further commiserations, my friend. ** Bill, Hey. Well, yeah, after some late winter Paris and some likely very wet, foggy late-late winter time in Brest, some sunshine would be most pleasant. The winter/cold here is pretty impressive, though. ** Patrick deWitt, I did have a look at that book, yeah, but I didn't get too far into it just because it wasn't precisely what my novel was looking for, but, yeah, it looked very interesting, and I want to get back to it. Thanks, P. ** A.r., Alex! Hey, man! I was just talking about you lengthily and reverently, like, two days ago. Nice! How are you, my friend? Don't know if I'll get into the woods, but I mentioned above that there's this informal Black Metal museum here that I definitely will traverse if I have any time at all. Much, much love to you! ** Misanthrope, Yeah, I'm here where Oslo is. I haven't seen much of it yet. I like it, though. A lot of tall people with really great noses. Well, smoking is my only vice these days too. Unless coffee counts. So, yeah, I hear you on the rationalization front, ha ha. ** Creative Massacre, Hey, pal. Yeah, I'm here and alive. It's cool. Well, it's more like ccoollldd, actually. How are you? ** No more teenagekicks, Hey, buddy! Thanks about the visa thing. Yeah, it's ... incredibly fucked up basically. I'm trying to make myself feel bored with feeling and angry and hopeless about it. Man, finish your novel! Need it! Cool about the Shakar book. The blurb thing is really weird. That's going on with mine right now, and it always really confuses me. Or what 'belongs there' confuses me. I'll have a better sense of this place by the time I depart on Sunday, and I'll give you my impressions. So far, very positive. ** Armando, It's very cold, and it's very snowy and icy. People seem very nice. Almost everyone here speaks such excellent English that it almost seems like their first language. That's about all I can tell at this point. But I'll have my senses going on overdrive today. Scotland seemed really cool, yeah. I want to go to the north of Scotland, which looks insanely beautiful in pix, obviously. ** Inthemostpeculiarway, Hi. Oh, well, based on your description, it sounds like 'Gossip Girl' could be kind of clever. Maybe I can find it on the hotel TV 'cos it has a million channels. No, we didn't make a movie, but we watched bits of a few being made. Oh, gosh, sorry about your upset tummy that day. Post-tooth stuff, I'd have to think? Vomiting is the worst. Headaches are really bad too though. I agree that 'Up in the Air' was kind of too in the middle in its strategy or whatever. That makes sense. Your soggy walk rivals my teeth chattering walk here yesterday in its unfriendliness. I think yours was probably worse because I was looking at new (to me) Oslo the whole time. Gosh, I hope you feel better today. I think I'm going to just tell you about yesterday because I'm in that hurry I mentioned. Up, coffee, shower, finish packing, RER train to the airport, bus from there to the remote new terminal where my plane was leaving from, on the plane. All fine. Two hour flight. I read The Wire. Norway looked very, very white and foresty through the windows. The Oslo airport is pretty cool. New and industrially designed but with lots of wood. There was supposed to be a reserved taxi there for me, but there wasn't one. I got a taxi on my own. Things here are very, very pricey. Taxi from the airport to downtown Olso: 130 Euros! Checked into the hotel. Hotel's new, okay, good internet, excellent breakfast buffet thing. Gisele thought I was staying at a different hotel, and she said it was only about a four minute walk to the theater, but it turned out to be a half-hour walk, and it was -14 degrees outside, so that was ... uh, interesting. But I saw some Oslo. Interesting modernist architecture. They have 7-11's here! Tall people, lots of blonds, some of them very attractive. The National Theater, where we performed last night, is huge and old and ornate, Ours was the first avant-garde theater piece ever performed there. They normally do conservative, old fashioned plays. Anyway, we rehearsed and hung out and stuff until the show. The show was sold out, and we were afraid the audience would be old and conservative and would hate 'TIHYWD', but the crowd was pretty mixed, and they loved it. Amazing response. I hadn't seen 'TIHYWD' since the premiere last summer, and it's really settled in and gotten better, I think. I was supposed to be onstage afterwards to discuss the piece, but the curator of the Black Box Theater where we're doing 'I Apologize' got pissed about me doing that when they brought me to read tomorrow, so Gisele did the talk/discussion thing solo. Then we all, you know, congratulated each other and thanked well wishers and all that. The people who hosted us at the theater were kindly afraid that I would die of hypothermia if I walked back to the hotel, so they got me a cab, and I came back here, watched some TV, and crashed. That's it in a nutshell. And how was your Friday? ** Chris (British), Hey! How great to see you! I was thinking about you because of that earthquake and hoping it didn't effect where you're living, You're here, so I'm guessing you're okay. How the heck are you? What's been going on? Catch me up, if you don't mind. It's really nice to see you, my friend! ** Bollo, Dude, no joke about the wallet thing. Holy shit. I'm glad I don't really drink alcohol. Those who do are stunned by the prices they're paying for a beer. 18 euros, I think they said. Brown cheese, okay, my eyes are peeled. And for that record store. It might actually be near the theater we're working at. Yeah, right, about the airport. I'm even thinking of leaving a little early on Sunday so I can explore it. New tape, awesome! Sold out! Congrats! I'll go see the blog evidence later. Everyone, the massively and multiply talented Jonathan Mayhew aka d.l. Bollo just released a new music tape under the moniker Evelyn's War that, although having sold out on the spot, does have some evidence/ residue that we who missed the boat can see and hear, and it's here, and go there please. Thank you, man! ** Jeff, Ah, there you are. I caught you, ha ha. Things are good so far. Fucking cold, like I said. Another dentist victim. Inthemostpeculiarway had his turn recently, Well, yeah, it doesn't sound to have been too nightmarish. May the novocaine wear off gently. ** All right, I'm off and into Oslo Experience Day #2. I've already intro-ed the post up above, so I hope you enjoy. I should have a more p.s. time available to me tomorrow. See you then.
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