Thanks pandemic. Just thanks. But
I don’t know, I think really the pandemic helped me with only thing: as my underground
station was burnt, it was very difficult to go anyplace; the bus transport
system, well, is very bad, just say.
Coincidences! Meanwhile finished the previous year, a very close friend exhorted me to watch movies, to go in depth of the cinema. Maybe most of you watch films, and not few of you considered yourself keens on films, cinephiles. But I really didn’t watch cine, even I escaped from that. Nevertheless, in the last days of November (2019), that friend gave me an USB (toc, toc! FBI, open door!) with some movies as “Cinema Paradiso”, “Seven Samurai” or the classic and antique “Battleship Potemkin”. Very people that follows me in Instagram think I’m keens on films or I know about cinema, when I started to go in depth less a year ago! Before I watched a few movies, very unknowns, for example, Basque cinema (Imanol Uribe, Miguel Courtois). By my readings, I had known about Godard, Resnais, Pasolini, Visconti, and, by my militance, my ideological position, Pontecorvo and Loach. So, with the pandemic, I went in depth of the European cinema: besides the other directors, I knew about the Germany cinema, with Fassbinder, Schlöndorff, the couple Straub-Huillet (although they were French persons); I knew the English cinema, I recognised the French cinema at least! However, with the online classes, it’s not very easy watch movies and to do homework.
Coincidences! Meanwhile finished the previous year, a very close friend exhorted me to watch movies, to go in depth of the cinema. Maybe most of you watch films, and not few of you considered yourself keens on films, cinephiles. But I really didn’t watch cine, even I escaped from that. Nevertheless, in the last days of November (2019), that friend gave me an USB (toc, toc! FBI, open door!) with some movies as “Cinema Paradiso”, “Seven Samurai” or the classic and antique “Battleship Potemkin”. Very people that follows me in Instagram think I’m keens on films or I know about cinema, when I started to go in depth less a year ago! Before I watched a few movies, very unknowns, for example, Basque cinema (Imanol Uribe, Miguel Courtois). By my readings, I had known about Godard, Resnais, Pasolini, Visconti, and, by my militance, my ideological position, Pontecorvo and Loach. So, with the pandemic, I went in depth of the European cinema: besides the other directors, I knew about the Germany cinema, with Fassbinder, Schlöndorff, the couple Straub-Huillet (although they were French persons); I knew the English cinema, I recognised the French cinema at least! However, with the online classes, it’s not very easy watch movies and to do homework.
From IMDb. État de Siège by Costa-Gavras (1973). At the right, Jean-Luc Bideau. At the left, Héctor Noguera. This movie was filmed in Chile, with a cast with French and Chilean actors.
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