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mizenscen: Greta Garbo’s imprint, c. 1924.

mizenscen:

Greta Garbo’s imprint, c. 1924.

LOVE LETTER #693745 I recently discovered that I am in love with Marlon Brando circa Street Car Named Desire era. This is him looking all dashing with a cat.

LOVE LETTER #693745

I recently discovered that I am in love with Marlon Brando circa Street Car Named Desire era. This is him looking all dashing with a cat.

  1. Werner Herzog The Rogue Film School will be in the form of weekend seminars held by Werner Herzog in person at varying locations and at infrequent intervals.

  2. The number of participants will be limited to a maximum of 65.

  3. Locations and dates will be announced on this website and Werner Herzog’s website: www.wernerherzog.com approximately 12 weeks in advance.

  4. The Rogue Film School will not teach anything technical related to film-making. For this purpose, please enroll at your local film school.

  5. The Rogue Film School is about a way of life. It is about a climate, the excitement that makes film possible. It will be about poetry, films, music, images, literature.

  6. The focus of the seminars will be a dialogue with Werner Herzog, in which the participants will have their voice with their projects, their questions, their aspirations.

  7. Excerpts of films will be discussed, which could include your submitted films; they may be shown and discussed as well. Depending on the materials, the attention will revolve around essential questions: how does music function in film? How do you narrate a story? (This will certainly depart from the brainless teachings of three-act-screenplays). How do you sensitize an audience? How is space created and understood by an audience? How do you produce and edit a film? How do you create illumination and an ecstasy of truth?

  8. Related, but more practical subjects, will be the art of lockpicking. Traveling on foot. The exhilaration of being shot at unsuccessfully. The athletic side of filmmaking. The creation of your own shooting permits. The neutralization of bureaucracy. Guerrilla tactics. Self reliance.

  9. Censorship will be enforced. There will be no talk of shamans, of yoga classes, nutritional values, herbal teas, discovering your Boundaries, and Inner Growth.

  10. Related, but more reflective, will be a reading list. Required reading: Virgil’s “Georgics” and Ernest Hemingway’s “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber”. Suggested reading: The Warren Commission Report, Rabelais’ “Gargantua and Pantagruel”, “The Poetic Edda”, translated by Lee M. Hollander (in particular The Prophecy of the Seeress), Bernal Diaz del Castillo “True History of the Conquest of New Spain”.

  11. Required film viewing list: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948, dir. John Huston), Viva Zapata (1952, dir. Elia Kazan), The Battle of Algiers (1966, dir. Gillo Pontecorvo), the Apu trilogy (1955-1959, dir. Satyajit Ray), and, if available, “Where is the Friend’s Home?” (1987, dir. Abbas Kiarostami).

  12. Follow your vision. Form secretive Rogue Cells everywhere. At the same time, be not afraid of solitude.

Gillian Wearing’s 2 into 1 (1997)

mydaguerreotypeboyfriend: James Stark, early Californian actor, gold speculator and brilliant personality. c. 1850. (Bancroft Library). Winner of the Michael Fassbender Award for Looking into the Middle-Distance Moodily. Submitted by I.C. Berry

mydaguerreotypeboyfriend:

James Stark, early Californian actor, gold speculator and brilliant personality. c. 1850. (Bancroft Library).

Winner of the Michael Fassbender Award for Looking into the Middle-Distance Moodily.

Submitted by I.C. Berry

nypl: Holding up mypurring cat to the moonI sighed. —- Jack Kerouac, American Haiku, 1959When he wasn’t “on the road,” famous writer Jack Kerouac (who died 42 years ago yesterday) was a self-avowed, cat-loving homebody. The photo above of Jack, taken by John Sampas, is from our Berg Collection of English and American Literature and is proof that he loved kitties. So happy Caturday! Thanks to our own Jeremy Megraw for finding this gem! Meanwhile, need inspiration? Wander through the Jack Kerouac Papers at NYPL and discover troves of unpublished fiction (“The Brooklyn Cat”) and non-fiction (“Untitled,” which involves observations on cat and human behavior).

nypl:

Holding up my
purring cat to the moon
I sighed.


—- Jack Kerouac, American Haiku, 1959

When he wasn’t “on the road,” famous writer Jack Kerouac (who died 42 years ago yesterday) was a self-avowed, cat-loving homebody. The photo above of Jack, taken by John Sampas, is from our Berg Collection of English and American Literature and is proof that he loved kitties. So happy Caturday! Thanks to our own Jeremy Megraw for finding this gem! Meanwhile, need inspiration? Wander through the Jack Kerouac Papers at NYPL and discover troves of unpublished fiction (“The Brooklyn Cat”) and non-fiction (“Untitled,” which involves observations on cat and human behavior).