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@ 2009-01-20 05:23:00

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It is all done with smoke and mirrors, and it always will be
jūs jau visi zinat, ka mana mīļākā filma ir Dereka Džārmena "Jubileja".

es te pēkšņi uzdūros leģendārās vēstules tekstam, kuru Tilda Svintone nosūtīja Derekam uz viņpasauli pirms sešiem gadiem (pirms tam nebiju to lasījis). vēstule sākas tā:

"Dear Derek, Jubilee is out on DVD. I found a copy in Inverness and watched it last night. It's as cheeky a bit of inspired old-ham, punk-spunk nonsense as ever grew out of your brain, and that's saying something; what a buzz it gives me to look at it now. And what a joke: there's nothing one-eighth as mad, bad and downright spiritualised being made down here these days this side of Beat Takeshi."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2002/aug/17/books.featuresreviews
nu un tur tālāk arī daudz kā lieliska

"Things have got awfully tidy recently. There is a lot of finish on things. Clingfilm gloss and the neatest of hospital corners. The formula merchants are out in force. They are in the market for guaranteed product. They go out looking for film-makers with the nous of one who might consider employing halogen spotlights in the hopes of attracting wild cats into a suburban garden. They are missing the point. Don't they know the roulette wheel is fixed? That the croupier is a cardsharp? Do these people not watch old movies? It's the spirited that hold the hands in the long run, it always was - the low-key for the long term, the irreverent, the cheats, the undaunted and inspired rule-breakers, not the goody-goody industrial types with their bedside manners and managerial know-how.

It is all done with smoke and mirrors, and it always will be. Not with memos and steering groups. Not with statistical evidence or test screenings. Don't they know the basic laws of being in an audience? That we say we want to know more about the villain, but we don't really; that we say we like happy endings, but our souls droop without the bittersweet touch of something we might recognise, as we bend from our fascinating and complex mortal world into the virtual dark and back again. That we say we want famous faces we can recognise, but there's one thing that a face that we identify as an actor's first and foremost cannot do for us that the face we might see as that of a person can do. It is human beings that are of use to us in the figurative cinema. Human shapes and gauchenesses and human passions. Not drama and perfect timing and a well-tuned charisma round every bend."

ps. te ir pavisam pilnā versija
http://www.vertigomagazine.co.uk/showarticle.php?sel=&siz=1&id=953


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[info]dooora
2009-01-20 08:55 (saite)
vienkārši un nesatricināmi. danke.

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