tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10161060.post2249700627585762016..comments2023-11-05T04:31:48.615-05:00Comments on Elusive Lucidity: Modernisms of the Global SouthZChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10211734319629732065noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10161060.post-57489709959670209032007-02-28T13:47:00.000-05:002007-02-28T13:47:00.000-05:00I shouldn't have been so coy...I actually have a V...I shouldn't have been so coy...I actually have a VHS of part 1 that looks terrible, but you can get the idea. I dubbed on the sly from a professor.<BR/><BR/>After some researching yesterday, I learned that Solanas is still active in Argentina, with a new film out in the past few years and even a run for political office. No info about the rights for HoF, but someone should get this film onto DVD...Sieve Fisted Findhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13578217683138826321noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10161060.post-73642031059757544942007-02-27T20:02:00.000-05:002007-02-27T20:02:00.000-05:00Girish, I've actually not seen Yi Yi (a dirty litt...Girish, I've actually not seen <I>Yi Yi</I> (a dirty little secret), but I have seen <I>The Terrorizer</I> and <I>A Brighter Summer Day</I>, both of which are excellent. (I think I somewhat prefer <I>Terrorizer</I>.)<BR/><BR/>Noel, I think if anyone knows anything at all about Filipino literature (and probably not that many Americans do...), it's Rizal. Or Hagedorn. I inquired to a good Filipino-American friend of mine about Filipino literary/artistic modernism recently, and he basically shrugged. (As much as one can shrug though email.) His appreciation of modernism hews more towards Joyce & Kafka!<BR/><BR/>Jeff--I have desperately wanted to see <I>Hour of the Furnaces</I> for a few years now. I didn't know that prints of it were quite so scarce! Anyway, thanks for reading & commenting.ZChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10211734319629732065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10161060.post-79697530004792075312007-02-27T14:40:00.000-05:002007-02-27T14:40:00.000-05:00oh yeah, i guess i've never posted before, so hell...oh yeah, i guess i've never posted before, so hello! i've been checking in periodically for the past few months, and always find something meaty to chew on. keep up the interesting work!Sieve Fisted Findhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13578217683138826321noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10161060.post-10796615296128410632007-02-27T14:38:00.000-05:002007-02-27T14:38:00.000-05:00Jonathan Rosenbaum (of course) has a nice piece ab...Jonathan Rosenbaum (of course) has a nice piece about a Yang retrospective that quotes that Jameson book. http://www.chicagoreader.com/movies/archives/1197/11077.html<BR/><BR/>As for non-Western radicals, Hour of the Furnaces (1961?) is an epic and angrily political documentary from Argentina by Fernando Solanas. It not only updated Vertov's bold title graphics for a new generation of revolutionaries, but screenings of the film in Argentina became ad-hoc activist events. The audience was literally politicized on the spot (by some accounts, screenings were interrupted by the police or army). Of the three-parts, I think only the first exists outside of Argentina, and only in 16mm prints for exhibition. I guess that's not too helpful, but as Third Cinema goes, that film's a monster. Solanas was a true manifesto-type guy.Sieve Fisted Findhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13578217683138826321noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10161060.post-3690393284397590382007-02-25T23:32:00.000-05:002007-02-25T23:32:00.000-05:00Interesting. I'd like to learn more. Never thought...Interesting. I'd like to learn more. Never thought people recognized Rizal outside of historian Austin Coates. Strangely enough, he's highly regarded by the Muslims. <BR/><BR/>Looking forward to your views on Brocka, negative or positive. I don't think that's his very best work, but I do like it, and I think it's a good introduction. <BR/><BR/>girish, did not like Yang's Mahjong--Tarantino on Quaaludes, was my impression. Afraid I saw only the short version of Brighter Summer Day myself. It's his best work, I think.Noel Verahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05904212081036547668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10161060.post-9406690393329899872007-02-25T08:51:00.000-05:002007-02-25T08:51:00.000-05:00Great and helpful post, Zach. Thank you.I picked u...Great and helpful post, Zach. Thank you.<BR/><BR/>I picked up <I>Geopolitical Aesthetic</I> a few years ago so I could read the chapter on Sokurov's <I>Days of Eclipse</I> soon after I'd seen it. But I've read nothing else in that book, or by Jameson. Or Moretti...so thanks for the suggestions.<BR/><BR/>Also (since you mentioned him re: Jameson), I'm curious about Yang's cinema. I've seen only <I>Yi Yi</I>, and noticed that superhappyfun has <I>Brighter Summer Day</I> (the long version) but haven't been able to see anything else by him. I'd like to scout around for his films and catch up with whatever I can find.girishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05079328617099035797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10161060.post-79381410720124907192007-02-25T08:13:00.000-05:002007-02-25T08:13:00.000-05:00Noel, thanks--by the way, I hope you drop by EL ag...Noel, thanks--by the way, I hope you drop by EL again soon because I hope to have some thoughts written on my first Lino Brocka film (I have a DVD of <I>Mother, Sister, Daughter</I> sitting right in front of me) ... <BR/><BR/>I was aware that Westerners pioneered a great deal of cinema in the colonized areas of the world. What intrigued me was that it wasn't necessarily Europeans <I>from the colonizing nations</I> who did it in Latin America, a fact that I don't yet know how to interpret. I won't have time today to track down my hard copy of the Lopez article, and when I'm not at work I don't have access to the scholarly database where it's located online, but I'll try to post an excerpt from Lopez. <BR/><BR/>Moretti does mention Benedict Anderson (<I>Imagined Communities</I>) on Rizal in footnote #28: "Rizal’s solution, or lack thereof, is probably also related to his extraordinarily wide social spectrum (Noli Me Tangere, among other things, is the text that inspired Benedict Anderson to link the novel and the nation-state): in a nation with no independence, an ill-defined ruling class, no common language and hundreds of disparate characters, it’s hard to speak ‘for the whole’, and the narrator’s voice cracks under the effort."<BR/><BR/>There are several English-language Rizal texts on Project Gutenberg. I'm going to try to read <I>Noli</I> within the next month or two.ZChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10211734319629732065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10161060.post-82939550957102820202007-02-25T03:24:00.000-05:002007-02-25T03:24:00.000-05:00Hi, Zach--Westerners didn't just pioneer Latin Ame...Hi, Zach--Westerners didn't just pioneer Latin American cinemas; they did in the Philippines as well. Producer Harry Brown, cinematographer Charles Martin, and writer Edward Gross released The Life of Jose Rizal (5,000 feet long, 22 scenes) on August 23, 1912; Albert Yearsley beat them by a day with The Shooting of Dr. Jose Rizal (500 feet).<BR/><BR/>Your mention of Anderson's study of Noli is interesting, but when I clicked the link there's no mention of the novel in the footnotes. What did Anderson say, exactly?<BR/><BR/>As for resources, I don't know how much this will help, but this <A HREF="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RP-Rizal/?yguid=68822341" REL="nofollow">egroups on Rizal</A> discusses his life and works and the two major novels (I much prefer the sequel to Noli, El Filibusterismo, which Gerardo de Leon, I thought, <A HREF="http://movies.groups.yahoo.com/group/noelmoviereviews/message/236" REL="nofollow">turned into a great film.</A>. If you look around in that Rizal egroups website, you might even find a link to the online English translation of both Rizal novels...Noel Verahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05904212081036547668noreply@blogger.com