July 2008
9 posts
“I understand this. What must be true, must be true. What must not be true, can be made more true by invention. Your films, frame by frame, contain a kind of rapturous truth that transcends the factually mundane. And yet when you find something real, you show it.”
—A letter to Werner Herzog:
In praise of rapturous truth :: rogerebert.com :: People
In praise of rapturous truth :: rogerebert.com :: People
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“Moving from art to criticism and criticism to art is moving along a level plane. That’s to say, you have to get excited about moving horizontally. The days of distance are behind us.”
—The Smart Set: Nobody’s a Critic
“Nostalgia, personal and cultural, is obviously the driving force of Maddin’s fragile little dream world, and perhaps as well fosters a link between his (apparently) exclusively heterosexual proclivities and the distinctly gay aesthetic and sensibility his films so patently evince. Where the collector, that avatar of stunted heterosexual maleness, appropriates the past through cross-indexing and incessant referencing, the Warhol/Anger/Jack Smith heritage from which Maddin less obviously poaches appropriates it as performance and pose, irony as vehicle of self-actualization.”
—My Winnipeg | Reverse Shot
