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  France at Work 1898

  ★★★½ Rewatched 06 Jul 2022

  Sujet fascinant d'un monde disparu, et preuve que le cinéma est politique depuis son commencement.

  Cadrages remarquables, remplis de trouvailles visuelles et de susprises, se déroulant à un rythme souvent hypnotique.

  Autrement dit, l'essence même du cinéma: l'image en mouvement.

  Vive les frères Lumière !

  Inclus dans la compilation:

  1. Ateliers de La Ciotat. 1896
  2. Lyon: travaux au Canal de Jonage: machine a damer. 1897
  3. Faneurs. 1897
  4. À bord du Formidable: ramassage du linge. 1898
  5. Carmaux, défournage du coke. 1896
  6. Laveuses sur la rivière. 1897
  7. Chamonix: le village. 1899-1900
  8. Attelage du camion. 1897

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  Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones 2002

  ★★★★ Rewatched 09 Jun 2022

  "If you look at the main complaints the average person had about the prequels they all have to do with the quality of the GCI, how it didn’t look realistic. But in this same line of thinking, I think this lack of realism is something to be championed, especially at the time of its occurrence. Like Isiah points out, we have moved to painting rather than photography[...]" - Isaac Goes
  mubi.com/notebook/posts/star-wars-dialogue-iii-art-and-technology

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  Stagecoach 1939

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 11 Feb 2021

  Ford's direction is almost musical.
  So utterly poetic...

  The whole of America crammed into a stagecoach.

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  Victory 1919

  ★★★½ Added

  This is self-conscious aestethic porn, and I love it.

  Tourneur's films are always a pleasure to watch because of their cinematic beauty but this is where he goes all in: dramatic compositions, foreground imagery, chiaroscuro (and other lighting effects), extreme camera angles, texture (smoke, shadows), baroque tinting, depth of field.
  And we're only in 1919 !!

  Victory is a giant leap in the development of cinema towards a more visual style and it is easy to see Tourneur's film as a precursor to other stylist such as Josef von Sternberg all the way to Ridley Scott's Blade Runner.

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