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More from Pierrot le Fou for the Rigorous Intuition Board. I uploaded my old VHS, the entire flick, to my computer and I've been glomming screen captures at leisure, a fascinating process. The movie spins off great images by the hundreds. It's ideal for the images-only thread, the real cyberspace location of all the images parked here under "Image Hosting."

Though stripped of context, the images here do have themes in common, such as guess-the-movie and my-favorite-films (excluding the Sailor Moon captures in the preceding post). In case you can't guess the movies, the first "Image Hosting" back in July showed Patricia Arquette and Bill Pullman in Lost Highway, and the second, the water buffalos who appear so significantly and symmetrically in Apocalypse Now, followed by a symbolic double exposure of Martin Sheen reading about Kurtz, actually the perigee of one of Apocalypse Now's many slow dissolves -- a technique and even a word that seem peculiarly appropriate.




















As I said, I uploaded Pierrot le Fou and I've been glomming images ever since. The direction, by Jean Luc Godard, and the cinematography, by Roaul Coutard, aggressively explore the source material -- not just the moody, hardboiled paperback original it's based on, Obssession by Lionel White, but all the sources of the footage, such as the cast members and the locations. Then Godard and the editor, Françoise Collin, aggressively explore the results, taking apart all the internal connections to study each element in isolation while, at the same time, making new connections with the outside world of 1965 -- pop culture, the generation gap, Third World revolution. That may be why to aggressively explore it with a digital window -- to skip back and forth, to pause, reverse, slow, freeze, capture -- turns out, counterintuitively, to be more enjoyable -- exciting, involving -- than to watch it passively in a theater.














"The best way to do it is with scissors." --Alfred Hitchcock