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I don't know about these
>others-- could you give me a line on each?
> *Blow-Job*
> *Marilyn Times Five*
Warhol (1964) and Conner (1985) direct. Wonderful when used
together. *BJ* doesn't exist on VHS, unfortunately, and the only place
that rents it on 16mm is MoMa (for $75). *BJ* prefectly illustrates the
frustrated expectation of its title -- I have hordes of jocks who show up
for the screening and they leave after 15 minutes, in pain and disbelief.
A line on *BJ?* It denies the visual pleasure of a reverse shot....35
minutes of a single shot where "nothing" happens. As for *Marilyn,* the
visual unpleasure is made possible by way of repetition. A "home video" of
a very young Marilyn playing with all kinds of sexualized props is repeated
five times with the musical accompaniment of "I'm Through with Love" also
sang five times.
> *Anemic Cinema*
By Marcel Duchamp, 1926. I have used it twice in the Intro. class
but I have decided to drop it. Incomprehensible French puns to a US
audience.
BTW: I show the eye slashing shot in *Chien Andalou* in slow motion
at lecture. It *always* gets them!
Gloria Monti
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