(<http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org>)
at 7:00p for The Ister, a copy of which I have been too cheap to purchase on DVD (the USA distro pricing is on the moon!).
So if Josh is keen on judging the code, I'll spring for a pair of tix to either The Ister or the Eggleston flick (see below). JoshK? JoshK?
Be prepared though, if you choose The Ister and don't know the right choice of seats at the Anthology Archive and you have an unpadded butt, ask in advance.
THE ISTER
<x-tad-smaller>2004, 189 minutes, color. Distributed by First Run/Icarus Films.</x-tad-smaller><x-tad-smaller>
</x-tad-smaller>In 1942, at the height of World War II, Martin Heidegger, the most influential philosopher of the twentieth century, delivered a series of lectures on The Ister, Friedrich Hölderlin's poem about the Danube River, which referred to the waterway by its ancient Greek name.
Rather than an esoteric retreat into the realm of aesthetics, Heidegger's lectures directly addressed the political, cultural and military chaos facing Germany and the world in 1942.
THE ISTER takes up some of the most challenging paths in Heidegger's thought, as we journey from the mouth of the Danube River in Romania to its source in the Black Forest. However controversial Heidegger remains (he was an enthusiastic supporter of the National Socialists), his thought remains alive in the work of some of the most remarkable thinkers and artists working today, four of whom discuss the contemporary social relevance of Heidegger, including Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Jean-Luc Nancy, Bernard Stiegler, and filmmaker Hans-Jürgen Syberberg.
Winding through the shattered remains of the former Yugoslavia, through a Hungary busily restoring its national mythology, and through a Germany that is both the heart of the new Europe and the ghost of the old one, the Danube itself is the question of the film. In addition to its mentally stimulating, at times even challenging, philosophical discourse, THE ISTER features stunning natural vistas along the nearly 2,000-mile length of one of Europe's major rivers, as well as ancient Greek ruins, the Mauthausen concentration camp, Yugoslavian bridges devastated by NATO bombings, and King Ludwig's Walhalla temple.
By drawing the places and times of the river into a constellation with Heidegger's thought, THE ISTER invites the viewer to participate in some of the most provocative questions facing Europe and the world today. These questions – of home and place, culture and memory, of technology and ecology, of politics and war – concern us today just as much as they did Heidegger in 1942.
"A probing, evasive meditation on time, culture and change, images and actions, and the necessity for both." – FILM COMMENT??
"An impressive philosophical exercise and a meditative work of cinematic beauty." – Jamie Russell, BBC??
"A film about past and present that makes use of cinema's power of associations, its ability to show the tangible, material aspect of things." – THE AGE?
"A revelation!" – SENSES OF CINEMA
"A stimulating three-hour journey in time, space and the mind." – Philip French, THE OBSERVER
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On Feb 10, 2006, at 1:22 AM, Michael Sullivan wrote:
tempting.....
On 2/10/06, robert a/k/a r <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If someone want to create the ultimate blingged-up version of Josh's
pop-up I'll throw you 2 tix to the William Eggleston flick at Lincoln
Center on 15 Feb @ 6:30p). We'll let Josh be the judge of the event, if
he want to. I know everyone is busy, but this thread need to end
(PLEASE!) and I'm willing to help :)
Of course such NYC tix are not gonna benefit our non-local buds, though
you could always donate the tix to a NYC friend or request two local
tix instead :))
Here's the skinny on the Eggleston flick:
(from <http://www.filmlinc.com/wrt/showing/fcselects06.htm>)
Stranded in Canton
William Eggleston, U.S., 1974/2005; 76m
More than 30 years ago, America's greatest living photographer, William
Eggleston, shot 30 hours of video in and around Memphis, using a
modified Sony Porta-pak, a cumbersome black-and-white camera that
recorded on reel-to-reel half-inch videotape. Eggleston and Robert
Gordon recently distilled this footage into a 77-minute time capsule.
It is an extraordinary and deeply personal vision of the Memphis
demimonde, filmed in the city's bars and streets. "Stranded in Canton
makes us aware of the chaos outside the frame of every Eggleston
photograph. One might venture, on the evidence of this swerving,
lurching, ghostly video diary that, for Eggleston, time is chaos,
against which still images and the rhythms of music are two forms of
defense... As the ethnographer of that mysterious region called the
South, he homes in on art and artifacts, on family gatherings where
familiarity and hostility are inseparable, on geeks biting the heads
off chickens, on juke-joint philosophers and drag queens, on musicians
amateur and professional, black and white - all of them grooving on
their own sounds." - Amy Taubin, Film Comment online exclusive, Sept 05
