OLIVIER ASSAYAS - DE PALMA TENDS TO GRANT AN ARCHETYPAL VALUE NOT TO SITUATIONS, BUT TO DEVICES
Cine Doré / Filmoteca Española in Madrid has a Brian De Palma series this month. One of the films on the schedule is Domino, and the program decsription quotes from a review by Manu Yañez. Here's a Google Translation:
DOMINO -
In a fantastic text entitled The Place of the Spectator, Olivier Assayas argued that Brian De Palma tends to grant an archetypal value not to situations but to devices, claiming that the device is the only subject of cinema. This bold hypothesis, corroborated again and again by the eminently self-reflexive work of the director of Carrie (1976) and Mission: Impossible (1996), is confirmed again in Domino, a film in which the plausibility of the ‘situations’ counts much less than De Palma’s interest in reflecting on the ‘devices’ for capturing images that populate our contemporary reality: in this case, microcameras built into rifles or drones.
...also, photo books on a cell phone
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Updated: Saturday, December 7, 2024 1:22 PM CST
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Updated: Saturday, December 7, 2024 1:22 PM CST
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