RASIE

4y

Nah I don't know any supplements along those lines. But I wouldn't say it's necessary either — you're going to miss a lot of references, among other things, regardless. I think it's most enjoyable when you're content with that idea, and just let the images and the ideas he expresses with them wash over you.

It's less of a "history of cinema" and more of a "20th century history seen through cinema", if that makes sense. The most pertinent things are the images, the various ways he intersects them, and what he's narrating while they're onscreen. He contextualizes every reference to fit into his own narrative threads (a lot like Rappaport's films The Silver Screen, From the Journals of Jean Seberg, and Rock Hudson's Home Movies — if you've seen any of those).

There's plenty of moments where the actual film or media reference isn't really relevant, just the image/ideas expressed. Try not to get caught up on references you don't know about or any ideas you don't understand — there's hundreds (thousands?) of images from archival footage used, so wanting to read up on them beforehand is a fools game imo.

There's really nothing that can "prepare" you anyway, because of the way he uses the images. Like if you know the name of a film that he uses an image from, that won't come i handy much when he's taking that image and cutting it with a totally different one in order to illustrate a metaphor for a historical event or philosophical argument.

Hope that makes sense fam, haha. I didn't mean to make it sound like the Japanese version with the annotations is awesome because they're necessary to enjoy/digest the project — I just think the feature on that version is a cool ideal in an addition to the film itself, partly because of how much work it must've been to compile all that info

dundis

4y

a rasie post with em dashes signifies truth bombs as usual

thanks for this

dundis

4y

bend of the river

dundis

4y

10 bucks + shipping for a brand spanking new copy
thought it was used/opened cause ad said "as new" but it's still unopened

Pla

4y

do you live in canada? Mine was free but i'm US

RASIE

4y

Damn you gotta stop sleepin on one of the GOATs

I've seen just over a dozen of his films so far, but oddly he's one of the few in my fave directors who I don't own a book about, so I'm very hyped to read this one

Celine and Julie is also one of the few major Rivette films I still haven't seen either. I've been sleeping on that one forever too

RASIE

4y

Finally sat down tonight for an hour and made a catalog of my physical collection. Been meaning to do this for a hot minute

Pla

4y

Guess Private Idaho wasn't directors approved lol

Urameshii

4y

Literally have the same app been a while since I’ve gone to that forum tho

RASIE

4y

Never used that site's forums either (I rarely use that site in general now that I think about it). But I came across their app when I was searching for archiving apps that best suited my needs, and it def ended up delivering.

The only real negative I encountered is the couple dozen DVDs/blu-ray releases I own that weren't accounted for on their database — mostly older and obscure publisher DVD releases of certain films, but there were a couple newer blu-rays that I was surprised they didn't have available to catalog (e.g., the recent Hartley film boxsets). And the process for manually adding a release to their database in order to catalog it was wayyy too inconvenient for me to go through.

But there was literally like less than 30 releases in my physical collection that weren't available to catalog on there. Other than those, vrtually every single one in the "total" pictured above was added to it via the barcode scan. That part of the app works shockingly well, so i def recommend it

Urameshii

4y

Same here I couldn’t find about three but the barcode scan is perfect

dundis

4y

time to move on with godard, only have le mépris left from early 60s and ending it with a cinema rewatch of vivre sa vie

RASIE

4y

Both those sets

Jelly of you seeing Vivre in the theater

dundis

4y

gonna bite into the guitry as soon as i clear my HDD of s*** i needa see

it was def a privilege.. some unexpected snickering in the crowd but f*** em
perfect goodbye to queen karina

the screenings here is a blessing to make up for our dull ass country. got tix to so much fire

dundis

4y

indicator flash sale tomoro

RASIE

4y

What country?