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  1. Hey Tweeps, Merry Christmas from me and Uncle Alfred! See your card here: http://bit.ly/4JfI3e
  2. @norbuck Oops, I guess that was more than 140 characters. ;)
  3. Deleuze: "In cinema, perhaps 3 films show how we live in time, ... how it carries us, picks us up, enlarges us ... One film is Vertigo."
  4. In other words, we are rarely in the here and now. All experience is mediated by memory.We are inhabited by time, not the other way around.
  5. Godard: "Though we see things with Manny's own eyes, he remains outside us, just as he is outside himself."
  6. Conversely, the subjective POV shots of Manny in The Wrong Man convey his bewilderment. As Godard wrote, he "sees without looking."
  7. Re Rear Window's opening long take crane shot, Deleuze says: "it is the camera, not the dialogue, that *explains* why."
  8. Conversely, Jackson's bold splashes and splatters are similar to Hitchcock's use of montage, most easily grasped in Psycho's shower scene.
  9. I see a corollary between his long, calligraphic strokes and Hitch's long takes, snaking around the room, as he paints with the camera.
  10. IMHO, Jackson Pollock's work does the same thing with paint. TWhen contemplating of his paintings, we are watching the process of thought
  11. "... which introduces 'real' movement into the image?" Hitchcock's moving image & moving camera express, not just action, but thought.
  12. Re the link btwn philosophy & film, Deleuze says: I like those who demand we introduce movement to thought. How could I not discover cinema?
  13. @norbuck Hard to say it in 140 characters! But here goes...
  14. @estherbester you will enjoy it!
  15. @estherbester It's "Hitchcock with Deleuze," by Sam Ishiii-Gonzales, published in "Hitchcock Past and Future." Familiar with it?
  16. Reading an interesting essay on Hitchcock, Deleuze and Bergson. Uphill work. Then I saw "Pollock" last night and now it all makes sense.
  17. Excellent NY Times story about Robin Wood's life: http://bit.ly/6yhvjl
  18. Critic/scholar Robin Wood has passed. Perceptive, thoughtful and spot on, his "Hitchcock's Films" was one of my favorites. RIP.
  19. Interesting discussion about "Shadow of a Doubt" going on at the Alfred Hitchcock Geek fan page. http://bit.ly/5nz5GG Join in!
  20. @KimBrater Thanks so much for the kind words! About 2009? It's been nice, but I think it's time for me to start seeing other years. ;)