Brooklyn Rail. July/August 06.

Via Invisible Cinema comes a reminder to check the Brooklyn Rail every once in a while, dammit. Jennifer Macmillan points specifically to Brian Frye's interview with Bruce McClure; from the intro: "Twirling knobs, flipping switches, and adjusting lenses, he coaxes a bank of whirring projectors into producing images impossible to record: moire patterns dancing in mid-air, a glowing orb rising from the surface of the screen, prismatic bursts flashing about the room."

And there's more in the July/August issue. Williams Cole interviews Albert Maysles. First question: "What is your central philosophy of filmmaking?" Well. Cole also recommends a few docs and plugs the Ironweed Film Club.

Nora Griffin reviews an object I paged through late last year in Munich before deciding it was too expensive, even as a souvenir of a very enjoyable afternoon: "Released last year in conjunction with a German exhibition of the same name, P.P.P: Pier Paolo Pasolini (Hatje Cantz, 2005) attempts to unify his oeuvre into one comprehensive monograph... [and] results in a conflict between visually exciting graphic design that seeks to brand the filmmaker for 'cool' consumption, and academic writing that secures his art in an ivory tower of theory."

David Levi Strauss offers a paper he delivered in March, "Magic and the American Avant-Garde Cinema."

Also: David N Meyer on 13 (Tzameti), Tessa DeCarlo on the newish Omen and a DVD roundup: À Nos Amours, The Searchers and Burst City.

Posted by dwhudson at July 14, 2006 4:13 PM