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Subject: Re: [Frameworks] Seeking source for this quote:
I bet it was not Andre Bazin ;)2015-03-28 14:21 GMT-04:00 Ken Paul Rosenthal kenpaulrosent...@hotmail.com:
“The closer movies
come to representing reality, the worse they fail at
Jean Renoir said the same thing in different words in 1961 here:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=jean+renoir+parle+de+son+art
Nicky.
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I bet it was not Andre Bazin ;)
2015-03-28 14:21 GMT-04:00 Ken Paul Rosenthal kenpaulrosent...@hotmail.com
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“The closer movies come to representing reality, the worse they fail at
representing the world.”
I think it's by Alexander Kluge, but not certain.
Thanks! Ken
Paul Auster in The Book of Illusions
Too much given, I felt, not enough was left to the viewer's
imagination, and the paradox was that the closer movies came to
simulating reality, the worse they failed at representing the world --
which is in us as much as it is around us.
On Sat, 28 Mar 2015
