lottereinigerforever:The GeneralSaw this with an amazing live score (kind of a pat metheny via kraut
lottereinigerforever:The GeneralSaw this with an amazing live score (kind of a pat metheny via kraut (less freaky Faust iv era Faust) combination) 2nite, one of the greatest silent remasters (although not quite as wild as the MIND BENDING MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA LAST YEAR) - my god buster keaton, orson welles was not being hyperbolic when he described yr face as one of the most beautiful ever seen on a screen. The score brought out the melancholy romanticism of yr pursuit of love (and war), that tender but mildly manic clownish-ness, sitting on a trains coupling rod rising and falling: subject within mechanism. Technology as a love interest (through the stunts which were actually performed we see technology and techne interrelating, a train is sunk, an era is meticulously recreated, a war is re-staged as a backdrop 2 a romantic pursuit) Wittgenstein analysed the film apropos the subject’s will vs the world (a world which is eventually transformed into a mechanism for his overcoming) and this manipulated world is overall an extension of a comedic hand which grasps and slaps. BUSTA KAY I LOVE YR ARTS. -- source link
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