Cinema is the most totalitarian of the arts. All energy and sensation is sucked up into the skull, a cerebral erection, skull bloated with blood.
Caligula wished a single neck for all his subjects that he could behead a kingdom with one blow. Cinema is this transforming agent. The body exists for the sake of the eyes; it becomes a dry stalk to support these two soft insatiable jewels.
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Les Seigneurs : Notes sur la vision (The Lords : Notes on Vision), 1969
Jim Morrison: Cinéma
Jim Morrison était chanteur des Doors. Explorez des citations intéressantes sur cinéma.“L'attrait du cinéma se trouve dans la peur de la mort.”
The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.
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Les Seigneurs : Notes sur la vision (), 1969
Each film depends upon all others and drives you on to others. Cinema was a novelty, a scientific toy, until a sufficient body of works has been amassed, enough to create an intermittent other world, a powerful, inifite mythology to be dipped into at will.
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Les Seigneurs : Notes sur la vision (), 1969
Cinema derives not from painting, literature, sculpture, theater, but from ancient popular wizardry. It is a contemporary manifestation of an evolving history of shadows, a delight in pictures that move, a belief in magic. Its lineage is entwined from the earliest beginning with Priests and sorcery, a summoning of phantomas. With, at first, only slight aid ofthe mirror and fire, men called up dark and secret visits from regions in the buried mind. In these seances, shades are spirits which ward off devil.
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Les Seigneurs : Notes sur la vision (), 1969