Filmwell’s Book of Filmmaker Wisdom: Excerpt 2 – Godard
David Dark (author of recently reviewed Sacredness of Questioning Everything) slapped up a clip from Vivre sa vie over at his blog Peer Pressure Is Forever. And it compelled me to do the same here: There is a very fine line between Godard the ad hoc blowhard intellectualese grammarian, and Godard the conjuror of incisively modern spiritual epithets. In this clip, we find him in the latter form. Read More
The Sacredness of Questioning Everything (David Dark, 2009)
The old words of grace are worn smooth as poker chips and a certain devaluation has occurred, like a poker chip after it is cashed in. Even if one talks only of Christendom, leaving the heathens out of it, of Christendom where everyone is a believer, it almost seems that when everyone believes in God, it is as if everybody started the game with one poker chip, which is the same as starting with none. (Walker Percy, The Message in a Bottle) David Dark, author of Everyday Apocalypse... Read More
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