[EFF15S5] Session 5: The Thoughts That Once We Had

25 March 2015, 20:45, ICA Cinema

Film: The Thoughts That Once We Had, Thom Andersen, USA, 2015, DCP, 108 minutes, English

Inspired by the writing of Gilles Deleuze on cinema, Thom Andersen’s new film, The Thoughts That Once We Had, is a richly layered journey through cinematic history, masterfully edited as it moves across decades and genres, and suffused at every turn by the filmmaker’s lifelong passion for the movies. “This meticulous product of years of reading and lecturing about Deleuze’s Cinéma… Thom Andersen jumps from close-ups of manual labour shown by Dovzhenko, to a montage of Marlene Dietrich’s face in a succession of films by von Sternberg – from the uncut scene of Mike Hammer asking Christina to read him Christina Rossetti’s poem twice, to breathtakingly beautiful shots of the sky and the sea excerpted from Godard…” (Bérénice Reynaud)

This screening was followed by a discussion between Thom Andersen and Michael Witt, author of Jean-Luc Godard: Cinema Historian, Indiana University Press, 2014.

2015年3月25日20:45，ICA影院
影片：《我们曾拥有的思想（The Thoughts That Once We Had）》，汤姆·安德森（Thom Andersen）执导，美国出品，2015年，DCP格式，片长108分钟，英语原声

本片灵感源自吉尔·德勒兹（Gilles Deleuze）的电影文论，汤姆·安德森的新作《我们曾拥有的思想》是一场层次丰盈的电影史漫游。该片以精湛剪辑手法穿梭于数十年光影与多元类型之间，全程充盈着导演毕生投身电影的赤诚热爱。贝雷妮丝·雷诺（Bérénice Reynaud）评论道：“这部耗时多年研读德勒兹《电影》系列著作并结合相关讲座打磨而成的精细作品，汤姆·安德森从杜甫仁科（Dovzhenko）展现的体力劳动者特写镜头，切换至冯·斯特恩堡（von Sternberg）执导系列影片中玛琳·黛德丽（Marlene Dietrich）的面部蒙太奇——从迈克·哈默要求克里斯蒂娜两次朗读克里斯蒂娜·罗塞蒂（Christina Rossetti）诗作的未删减片段，到戈达尔（Godard）作品中摄人心魄的天空与海面镜头。”

本次放映结束后，汤姆·安德森与迈克尔·威特（Michael Witt）展开对谈，迈克尔·威特的著作《让-吕克·戈达尔：电影史家（Jean-Luc Godard: Cinema Historian）》由印第安纳大学出版社于2014年出版。