A pack of Alain Delon cigarettes.
“My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water.” – Robert Bresson
Robert Bresson, Notes on the Cinematographer, with an introduction by J.M.G. Le Clézio
Indeed:
Who says cinema, says negation of government.
Who says negation of government, says affirmation of the people.
Who says affirmation of the people, says individual liberty.
Who says individual liberty, says sovereignty of each.
Who says sovereignty of each, says equality.
Who says equality, says fraternity.
Who says fraternity, says social order.
By contrast:
Who says government, says negation of the people.
Who says negation of the people, says affirmation of political authority.
Who says affirmation of political authority, says individual dependency.
Who says individual dependency, says class supremacy.
Who says class supremacy, says inequality.
Who says inequality, says antagonism.
Who says antagonism, says civil war.
From which it follows that he who makes shitty movies, hates mankind.
THENEWCINEMA
(In memory of A. Bellegarrigue)
Mariel Hemingway • David Lynch • Paz de la Huerta • Lukas Haas • Peter Deming • Luc Moullet • Juliane Lorenz / Rainer Werner Fassbinder • Jan Harlan / Stanley Kubrick
THENEWCINEMA Volume 1, Issue one. THE MASTER CLASS ISSUE