Scottish Water (Closed Caption)

Sheep grazing on a hill.

“And people are just worried, I don’t know but you get left with all these leads and connections and possible connections. It seems nobody’s done the research.” – Woman on the radio

“I would rather drink water where sheep were grazing than drink it after it’s been in a reservoir where there’s hundreds of birds polluting and [inaudible] all day.” – The Shepherd

(For maximum enjoyment turn captions on)

The Protagonist of the Living Room

And the guy on the couch is on heroin

A drawing of a man sitting on a couch smoking a pipe. A console stereo is in the background. It looks like the 1950s.

I generation (is 1955 born.) Encounter with what appears to the first audio of, generally, was placed in the center of the drawing room, it seems it was a device called a “stereo” to be angry to the touch. (The next to it is lined with furniture that liquor is referred to as the sideboard lined up.)
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“The Devil jumped into her mouth.

Don’t show the devil jumping into her mouth.”

Notes on Cinematography by Robert BressonParaphrased from an older English translation of Robert Bresson’s Notes On Cinematography.

I always tried to make sure I had copy of this book on hand. They came and went. I lent them or gave them then replaced them.

In the 90s a new little pocket sized version appeared on Green Integer with what I assume was a better translation – Notes on the Cinematographer by Robert Bresson. God I loved that little book.

And now that essential little beauty of a book is out of print.

Notes on the Cinematographer by Robert BressonNow when it’s needed more than ever since there is a Bresson Retrospective at The PFA.

At least I still have a PDF of Notes on Cinematography. And you can too. Just right click, control click, click click or whatever you do on this bit of link text here and Bob’s your uncle.

Enjoy.


Update November 8, 2017

Someone was nice enough to give me a fresh copy of Notes on the Cinematographer. The nice pocket size Green Integer version.

There is also a new edition with yet another title change: Notes on the Cinematograph

So all is not lost.