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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