the magus ( film )
michael caine in the film version of the magus. photograph: ronald grant archive
aubrey, james, 2015b: ‘the magus on film’. in: aubrey, james (ed), 2015 :
i' m 50 pages from completing a magus marathon. i re - read the revised magus (1976), then began reading the original again (1965) to identify the revisions .
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. the film’s hairdresser, stephanie kaye, reflects on the styling of anthony quinn’s hair in the film and talks about her memories of the performers .
discussions relating to movie adaptations of john fowles' novels (the collector, the magus, the french lieutenant' s woman and the ebony tower) .
with the headline: screen:' the magus,' with michael caine, opens; novel' s author turned it into filmscript .
what is the magus game? the game is love. the game is lust. the vicious game is life itself... or is it death ?
. the son of the film’s art director, william hutchison, talks about the picture, reflecting on the choice of locations used in the shoot and his memories of the making of the film .
that will certainly be the case with the opening film, rebekah fortune’s thought - provoking debut feature just charlie which won edinburgh film festival’s 2017 audience award .
yet, when i first encountered the book at 20, i disappeared for a week. a quick scan of the morning paper showed no magus news, so i threw it away. at lunch, my sandwich didn' t taste like magus, so i spit it out .
what is the magus game? the game is love. the game is lust. the vicious game is life itself... or is it death? see more »
is filled with the breathtaking scenery of mallorca, islas baleares, spain. the film is
actress dorothy stratten was murdered after the film' s shooting was completed and studios distanced themselves from the film, refusing to release it because of the bad publicity surrounding the tragedy. bogdanovich put in $ 5 million of his own money and distributed the film himself .
a teacher on a greek island becomes involved in bizarre mind - games with the island' s magus (magician) and a beautiful young woman .
evidently, fowles was so upset by his experience with the collector, that he stipulated that if any film adaptation was to take place with the magus, he alone would write the screenplay (interestingly enough, fowles stated that he enjoyed the collaborative effort of working on the the collector - he just didn' t like it when others got credit for the film' s final success - - perhaps a more telling comment on fowles than on wyler). what he may not have realized was that by demanding sole responsibility for the film version of the magus, he alone would bear the responsibility of the screenplay' s - and a large part of the film' s - success or failure .
. it recounts how highly revered the author still is but nothing of the film is mentioned .
was adapted in a more satisfactory manner, insisted that he wrote the screenplay for guy green’s film. in his journals, fowles commented that writing the treatment for the film adaptation of
fowles was catapulted to fame and fortune - the film rights to the magus were sold before he had even finished it. in 1964 he began collating and rewriting all the previous drafts of the magus. a virtuoso piece of storytelling, it was published in 1965 and, despite critical reservations, was an immediate popular success, especially with students. he wrote in the foreword to a revised version published in 1977 :
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the extras: there' s an impressive documentary, john fowles: the literary magus that is required viewing after seeing the magus. so often, these dvd documentaries amount to little more than extended commercials for the films you just saw, but john fowles: the literary magus reaches real depths in exploring the life and work of fowles, while maintaining an almost unheard of (for dvd documentaries, at least) even balance in presenting opinions and views of fowles as a person and as an artist. this isn' t just some whitewash
rah rah
celebration of fowles; the revelations from his step - daughter about some of fowles' actions, bring real contrast to the usual critical cheering for his life, and deeply impact the viewer' s reading of the film the magus. it' s really a thorough, well thought - out documentary. there' s also trailers for the magus (suitably cryptic), as well as for peeper and deadfall .
the film adaptation is famously terrible. michael caine classed it with the swarm in the list of his films. while woody allen' s quote about the magus is so famous it is on the wikipedia article. it was pretty difficult to get a hold of it, until the rather wonderful blu - ray…
, stanley kubrick made something provocatively and controversially new out of every film project he touched. we' ll start with kubrick' s genre - defining caper film the killing
considering this was an indy film with a modest budget, i was very impressed. my hat is off to mr. lechago for writing and directing an excellent story. the special effects were great. i enjoyed the characters, especially the magus fernos. ron fitzgerald really brought life to this role. i' m sure we will be seeing more of him in the future. bill steele and lizzy strain also delivered strong performances. magus captured my attention from beginning to end. michael sean colin did an outstanding job with the music. i have seen many films on sci - fi that can' t hold a candle to magus. all my best to everyone who worked on this film. great job! this is a great indy film with all the right elements .
' the magus': a thrilling, chilling guilty pleasure the magus is the story of a man who wished for adventure — only to be disappointed when that wish comes true. author nick dybek says he identified with the book when he read it at age 20. was there ever a time you longed for a more interesting life? tell us about it in the comments .
the theatrical gestus of the film - theatre director
godard
in scénario du film passion calls our attention, finally, toward one more shape of the theatre' s heterotopia in film. if the intermedia processes of his films lead to
a successive reduction of the sharp distinction between dispositive arrangements
( my trans. from zielinski, 1989: 244), we should glance more precisely at the dispositifs of film and theatre .
uses the avc codec and is in the film’s original aspect ratio of 2. 35: 1. the film’s colour 35mm photography (by billy williams) is beautiful, characters’ faces frequently framed against the deep blue water or sky ,
the commons is proud to present the exhibition the magus. curated by noam gonick, this project brings together c. graham asmundson' s paintings, drawings and works in yarn with the magus, 2011, a film work by his son jaimz asmundson which documents his father' s artistic process. seen here together for the first time, it is a focused glimpse into their unique creative and intergenerational collaboration. the exhibition will open friday, november 23, 2012 and running until sunday, january 6, 2013 .
i love john fowles' the magus. i read it when i was 19. even more pretentious than i am now and i loved it. i read it again in my late 20s and it completely stood up. the surreal, drifting plot, but with a the precise nicholas urfe character just makes it an irresistible read. the magus is one of the ultimate i just could not put it down novels .
the film that followed, in 1968, starring michael caine and anthony quinn, was notoriously bad and rendered even more infamous by a woody allen joke :
if i had to live my life again, i' d do everything the same, except that i wouldn' t see the magus .
a challenging, never boring, film from the pen of john fowles. i admit i saw significantly more than my sd viewing years ago. i think it would be a lesser film without the strong cast .
the screen is a wall. walls are there to be jumped over. godard in scénario du film passion
the sinister face sneering from the cover is reason enough to keep john fowles' the magus tucked discreetly away. then there' s the 600 or so pages inside, which are filled with pretentious riffs on psychoanalysis, metaphysics, fascism and the occult .
it was not the generous aegean spring but the burnt melancholic landscape of early september that drew me to paros .
the greece of the islands is circe still; so beautiful, quiet and empty that it verged on the terrifying .
that summer the magus captured it .
signal one’s blu - ray release contains an excellent presentation of the film that is supported with some very good contextual material. it’s a great release of an interesting, though not wholly successful, film .
a collaboration with crunchyroll movie night and scotland loves anime will bring anime adventure the ancient magus’ bride to the big screen, preceded by an exclusive look at original crunchyroll production children of ether before it’s even screened in japan .
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john fowles himself, despite having written the screenplay, called the film adaptation of his second novel
a disaster all the way down the line .
the second magus (played by anger) descends a staircase to perform the sacred ritual invoking lucifer. the magus enters the magick circle inscribed with the names of crowley’s pantheon: lucifer, nuit, hadit, ra hoor khuit, chaos, babalon, and lilith. the priest immediately banishes chaos prior to the consecrated ritual and begins to walk around the inside of the circle. quickly his speed builds to frantic and frenetic pace, and in an instant he transcends the circle, beyond time and space. as the magus whirls at a lightening pace inside the circle celestial psychedelic lights, or stars, rain down upon him. the magus then raises his arms and fiery intense red explosions occur, molten lava spews from a maelstrom of volcanic activity. the divine world opens, releasing its primeval, transfiguring force upon the mortal realm as lucifer appears in the person of the god, who turns and in “extreme close - up his curls coruscate with red sun - glow, as his eyes look directly in the camera and out at us. ” (5 )
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berkeley underground filmmaker antero alli' s ninth feature explores corruption and hilarity behind the closed doors of an occult order. the elder magus of the thelemic temple of horus passed away and jack mason, a sex magickian cultivated to advance the lineage, loses it all when the elder magus' son unexpectedly inherits everything. jack plots deadly revenge and falls into a dizzying maze of underworld encounters with professional psychopaths, desert brujas, and a twist of fate he never saw coming .
magus (the) aka the god game (blu - ray) [ blu - ray ] blu - ray b - united kingdom - signal one entertainment review written by and copyright: paul lewis (30th april 2017) .
in the following, i would like to pursue this question by using the example of godard' s self - presentation in scénario du film passion. this film can be understood as a key work regarding godard' s intermedia production. we need to investigate how the work and passion of the
godard
genius (also central topics in the movie passion) write or paint themselves into his video film scénario du film passion, and what options result therefrom for the interplay between the imag (e) ined créateur and the viewer .
weaves a non - linear narrative in which past and present collide and sometimes blur; characters are haunted by their pasts, conchis’ reputation as a ‘collaborationist’ dogging him, and the impact of the past upon the present is represented very directly via the film’s depiction of ‘ghosts’. on set for the production of the film, magnum photographer eve arnold recollected that ‘the massacre scene of the first day’s shooting is only one of the strange evocations from the past that occur in the film’ (arnold ,
hence i suggest approaching godard' s' self' - presence by way of a short
re - visiting
of the video film that is probably most relevant for our line of questioning, scénario du film passion. without a doubt, this film represents a climax of the godard phenomenon' s self - reflective construction and deconstruction .
a broken - down healer, learns the magus has abandoned the wizard' s code and is using his power for evil. forced to come out of reclusion, this improbable hero finds an improbable assistant - - his teenage niece .
also interesting: conchis' fictional movie company in the magus was called
polymus films ,
while the game was distributed by
polygram films .
during a visit with fowles in 1998, i asked him if he had seen the game, and if so, if he had noticed the parallels with the magus. it turns out that not only had he seen the movie, but he actually considered suing the producers. his lawyers ultimately decided, however, that it would be a difficult case to prove .
the shadow of godard’s body that paints and writes itself into and between the images of his film may stand as a metaphor for this basic absence of the signifier. at the same time, however, it is also an expression of a desire to overcome the validity of this basic principle of the film dispositif by an intermedia merging of theatre and film. godard as theatre director tries to revitalize in film the hic et nunc of a situation of theatrical projection, one shared by actors and viewers, to give to an inevitable absence the appearance of presence .
considered by many to be the most important piece of propaganda in the history of film, the battleship potemkin is an influential landmark in 20th - century cinema, as well as arguably eisenstein' s greatest work. a revolutionary film in every sense, it tells the story of the 1905 mutiny on the russian ship prince potemkin, pride of the tsar' s navy. the film was banned in many countries, including nazi germany, britain and france, and even the us. “which is the best picture i have ever seen? my answer is always potemkin. ”—billy wilder “the best film in the world. ” —charlie chaplin
again). there are major conceptual problems with the film, to be sure. seen as a whole, it can be called an interesting failure. and perhaps this is why the film received such nightmarishly harsh reviews when it came out -
whether a film can ever live up to a john fowles novel i seriously doubt it. this one being particularly hard to represent on film. however, i thoroughly enjoyed seeing the characters brought to life in film. i doubt this is for everyone, and all the accepted reviews of it are probably more representative, however, as a fan of fowles, and being born in the 70s, i was glad of the chance to see this old film and i was glad i did .
good film but in wrong format. us suppliers need to remember that most of the rest of the world does not conform to us standards .
a sun - soaked snapshot of an experimental era, the magus is a film of baffling logic in which common sense and coherence are rendered useless through a puzzling game of trickery and deceit. cashing in on michael caine’s alfie charm as he pursues both anna karina and candice bergen with equal intent, the film uses sex as the basis for manipulation, throwing viewers off the scent yet never fully alluding to a definitive set of answers as guy green dips his toe into new waters and swiftly gets dragged away by the tide .
trees tropiques (alex fattal, 2009, brazil, blu - ray, 30 min) this innovative and thought - provoking documentary subtly explores ethical issues when deforestation and ethnography intersect. the film incisively poses the question: who has the right to cut—both trees and film footage ?
jaimz asmundson is a winnipeg - based media artist, working primarily in film & video and most recently in expanded cinema performance. his award - winning work has traveled to film festivals worldwide, including a retrospective and residency in cologne, germany and he was called
winnipeg' s enfant terrible of transgressive cinema
by antimatter film festival. jaimz is a member of the wndx film festival, a past programmer of the gimli film festival and he has also contributed to many award - winning shorts, features, documentaries and tv productions as a picture editor, assistant editor and graphic designer .
scénario du film passion continues the discourse sparked by the young rebels of nouvelle vague about the author' s role. the politique des auteurs postulated by truffaut in 1954 in cahiers du cinéma is subjected in this film to a final (for now), aesthetic and ironic de - and reconstruction .
in spite of all that, i really don' t think it' s all that bad a film .
i' d be curious to get the take of others on this... especially those who are younger and perhaps saw the film recently for the first time .
among his credits). the audio is, likewise, very pleasing in lossless - augmenting the film experience, there are optional english subtitles on the region' b'
cinema holds the potential to “invoke primal forces, perhaps even demons, ” and those demons, once released, affect both those working on the film’s production and, “through a series of occult circuits connecting physical with spiritual dimensions of existence, the film’s audience. ” (10) the cinematic experience of anger’s film, lucifer rising, although revelatory and transformative, perhaps even emancipatory, is not without the very real threat of danger .
the french lieutenant' s woman is excellent... without question the best film adaptation of a fowles novel, and the one of which fowles himself was most satisfied .
the sixth year pupil from glasgow high school is now looking forward with excitement to the opening night of the innovative glasgow youth film festival as she waits to find out how the public respond to their programming .
in the course of one week in 1977, the writer john fowles received a total of half a million dollars as an advance for his novel daniel martin and in option money for the film version of his 1969 best - seller the french lieutenant' s woman. his two previous best - sellers, the collector and the magus, had already been hollywood films (both terrible, alas). for two decades, fowles was unique among english writers in combining literary sensibility with mass popularity .
one of the all time great books of 20th century. this film is a pallid version. . the director missed most of the author' s points, not the best of michael caine' s performances .
. in a new interview, guy green’s son michael recalls the shooting of the picture, which provided the then - seventeen year old michael green with his first job on a film set .
as film festivals across the country strive to raise their profile, many often pass over inventive, risk - taking films to make room for a sneak preview of the newest hollywood film before its worldwide release. somebody needs to help these true independent gems find an audience on the lookout for the unusual! seattle' s true independent film festival is held at multiple venues throughout seattle. it is a celebration of offbeat independent film from the northwest and the rest of the world. this year our favorite stiff picks include the latest from legendary filmmaker jon jost’s images of a lost city, the darkly comic anti - heroic new york set the crab and kevin jerome everson’s dry cleaning portrait quality control. you can view the full schedule at urltoken .
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at one point in the film, urfe tells conchis that ‘i’ll just enjoy it more if i knew what it was all about’. for some members of the audience ,
for the first time in several years (the dvd was released in 2006). the film is, of course, remembered by many as a dismal failure, and even those who' ve never seen it may have heard of the famous woody allen quote :
if i had my life to live over again, i would want everything exactly the same with the exception of seeing the film version of
john fowles didn' t regard the magus as his greatest novel. the first he wrote but the second to be published (in 1966), it seemed to succeed in spite of its creator, who mused :
i have long learned to accept that the fiction that pleases me the least … persists in attracting a majority of my readers most .
the results can be seen in glasgow from september 22 - 24 and it’s clear the team have made some bold choices as the festival opens with a film about a transgender child’s struggle for acceptance .
jürgen e. müller, dr. phil. , professor of media studies at the university of bayreuth, germany. dr. müller' s main fields of research are history of audiovisions and of television; multi - and intermediality; film and semiohistory; film and media theories .
the visual narrative of lucifer rising is traced by anger to aleister crowley’s hymn to lucifer. based on crowley’s occult world - view (thelema), the film incorporates ancient egyptian ruins, reanimated egyptian gods and goddesses and their counterparts, and high priests (magi) performing ritual magick in a sacred circle to invoke lucifer. it is the english magus who oversees the film’s central ritual, and anger incorporates many images of crowley along with illustrations from his sacred texts through superimposition. anger chose egypt as a location because it was there that crowley had a vision of the angel aiwast, who became the “source of the revelation of book of law. ” (1 )
6. robert haller, kenneth anger: a monograph (film in the cities / walker art center: minneapolis, 1980), p. 9 .
for charlotte, who would like to study film at university, being able to take part in the programming has been something of an eye - opener .
“if you forget everything else about me, please remember this. i walked down that street and i never looked back and i love you. i love you. i love you so much that i shall hate you for ever for today. ” ― john fowles, the magus
littering the frame. the image as presented on signal one’s new blu - ray is crisp and detailed, retaining the structure of 35mm film thanks to a strong encode. the film was shot on location in spain and greece, and the mediterranean sun beats down in every frame, harsh and direct sunlight illuminating the actors faces whilst casting deep shadow behind them or behind the objects in the frame. this presentation handles this superbly, nicely balanced contrast levels offering strongly defined midtones and deep blacks. a very good level of fine detail is present throughout the film, especially noticeable in close - ups of the actor’ faces. there is no damage to speak of. the light flooding the frame results in most of the shots being staged in depth, this depth of field communicated excellently here. in all, it’s a very pleasing presentation of the film .
interesting & perhaps a bit confusing. i should like to read the novel for a comparison. maybe things were left out of the film that would help unify it more completely .
. in this video film, godard appears as director in front of an initially white screen. the audiovisual basis of these re - figurations is composed of the pre - figurations of
a british schoolteacher, nicholas, has left his girlfriend to take a job on a small island in greece, replacing a man who committed suicide under mysterious circumstances. nicholas meets conchis, the magus (meaning magician), a wealthy recluse with a mysterious past that might include collaboration with the nazis. the magus' s companion, lily, is just as suspicious, lurking around in a ghostly state of paranoia. slowly but surely, nicholas is drawn into a bizarre game masterminded by this magician. the deeper into the game he is drawn, the more he senses danger... yet he cannot seem to untangle himself from the fascinating and compelling influence that the game is having on his mind .
2. dennis conroy, “kustom kenneth kommando, ” release print: magazine of the film arts society, november / december, 2000, p. 24 .
i' ve read the magus several times over the years. i only recently heard about the movie. word on the street is that it' s rubbish. i think it' s pretty good. the location, the actors, the story (truncated and compressed as it necessarily is for one movie) - yes, please. give me a remake with two movies, new s. king' s it style .
fowles' s confounding of normal narrative expectations at the ending of the magus, the french lieutenant' s woman and, later, a maggot, frustrated readers but excited critics. however, it might well have had less to do with critical theory or elizabeth' s interventions than with indecisiveness. he told me cheerfully several years ago ,
i bought this film on blu - ray and the quality is ok - great in some places, less great in others. this was a combi so you get the dvd anyway .
cast: miriam gibril (isis); donald cammell (osiris); haydn couts (adept / magus i); kenneth anger (adept / magis ii); sir francis rose (chaos); marianne faithful (lilith); leslie huggins (lucifer) .
combining documentary and fiction elements, and filmed clandestinely in the streets of johannesburg, come back africa creates an intimate portrait of the inhuman and violent apartheid system. the film follows an itinerant zulu family (including the debut of african singer miriam makeba) struggling to survive the quotidian racist indignities of life in the big city slums. a raw, immediate and excoriating political exposé, the film allies its outrage with narrative poignancy to produce an early, influential instance of the hybrid
docudrama
format .
what else is on? other highlights include the scottish premiere of at eye level, the winner of best family film at the german film awards. it features michi who is picked on because he is the smallest child in his foster home. when he discovers a letter written by his deceased mother he believes it holds the secret of his father’s identity and sets out to find him in a tale of difference and belonging .
the film runs for 116: 16 mins and is uncut. taking up approximately 31gb of space on a dual - layered blu - ray disc, signal one’s 1080p presentation of
i' m slightly more embarrassed to say that, when i revisit the novel more than 10 years later, i still feel the pull of its fantasy. and i realize that part of me is still waiting for the mysteries of my own life to begin. at least i know that they wait inside fowles' pages, and for that reason, the magus might still be my favorite novel .
“this one was also at edinburgh film festival and got a great reception there so we are hoping for a good audience for it, ” said charlotte .
note: the vertical axis represents the bits transferred per second. the horizontal is the time in minutes .
the one extra on this disc is a somewhat interesting documentary on fowles, containing interviews with his biographer, fans, a literature professor and his editor at little, brown. in discussing
the magus ,
fowles' first novel, which took him 10 years to write, the prof sees the themes as true love and the meaning of life. his editor calls him the
best prose stylist of the 20th century .
( enhanced wide screen, 1968, rated pg )
the arrival of lucifer is tied to the manifestation of horus in the form of a glowing, orange flying saucer set against an intense blue sky with ancient egyptian ruins in the foreground of the low - angle shot. a flying saucer is certainly the form that the ancient winged god horus would take in a scientifically advanced historical age – the technological manifestation of the falcon - god heralding the new aeon. the final shot of the film is of two immense egyptian colossi. the gods and goddesses have completed their task, the elements now harmoniously commingle, and the world is momentarily at rest. anger explains that the extended duration of the last shot is necessary, for in between the two colossi there is a fire burning, the flames of which rise slowly as the film comes to an end – anger’s original lucifer rising script set ablaze .
i can' t really recommend the film as most will be infuriated with it, but the dvd is certainly up to scratch - a brilliant 16x9 image, an interesting featurette and at a fairly reasonable price .
the weaknesses: miscasting of michael caine as nicholas (stiff as a board), and especially candice bergen as lily / julie (god awful); the self - conscious sex scenes; the incomprehensible plot twists, particularly late in the film; the absurd attempt at humor in the trial scene; and the ending, which in the context of what precedes it falls flat .
join our discussion forum and share your perspective and experience with this rich tale of psychological intrigue. what did you gather from the novel’s much talked about the conclusion? are you a fellow member of the film version’s cult following? let’s get started !
the images; his shadow and his projections fill the screen, the video displays, and sometimes the entire picture frame. the adventure and even hazard of image production, which leads to ever - new images, radicalizes not only the issue of the film' s reproductive character (cf. paech, 1989: 64) but also that of the role and identity of the image maker (cf. bellour, 1990: 335) or of the
and why does everything in the novel have to reference mythology or literature? even while watching a
blue film
the narrator manages to allude to artemis, apollo, anubis, desdemona and othello, and sums up the experience with the phrase ,
i was iago .
in few corners of the united states is the gulf between rich and poor more dramatic than in willets point, a small neighborhood in queens, new york. an award - winner at the locarno film festival, foreign parts chronicles the citizens of this fascinating microcosm. it takes us right into the heart of a hazardous, hardscrabble community perilously threatened by new york mayor michael bloomberg' s ambitious
gentrification
plans. it' s a necessary, topical and touching film .
.) the amplification of conchis’ role as ‘puppetmaster’, with his claim / revelation that he is a film producer and urfe is the unwitting star of his latest picture, leads the film along an increasingly metafictional path. ‘you have entered the metatheatre’, conchis tells urfe, ‘a theatre with no set plot, no set dialogue and no audience. our play is for the actors alone’. in response to this, urfe asks conchis if he is to be ‘the unpaid clown for your production’ – with anne’s suicide functioning as ‘the unpaid bill for your amusements’ .
although the finished film ultimately testifies to anger’s cinematic genius, its production was apparently cursed. there were problems with actors. mick jagger, originally cast as lucifer, backed out and the role eventually went to leslie huggins. anger’s original lucifer rising footage was stolen from the trunk of his car in san francisco in 1967. a rift between anger and guitarist jimmy page forced anger to enlist bobby beausoleil to compose the soundtrack, who at the time was imprisoned for his involvement with the charles manson murders. beausoleil composed the music while in prison, and his score captures perfectly the mysterious and ritualistic tone of the film .
with the threat of cancellation looming, the third season was devoted to making a commercially viable horror film, and the filmmakers may have succeeded. this unrated edition of
feast ,
a loud and predictable monster movie, should sell and rent well on dvd .
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how did they do it? despite the hard work, charlotte said it was a “fun” way to spend the summer. she found out about the opportunity on social media and, as a regular film goer, decided it would be something she would like to do .
the results of a reception study on
godard
show that viewers and critics assess these audiovisual shadow games as indicating the author' s
personal presence
in the film. despite all jean - luc' s disclaimers, the
godard
shadow' s presence is usually taken as evidence for the omnipresence of the
godard
phantom and for the unity of person and work. actor, author, director and the numerous visual and audio figures and roles solidify in the
godard
syndrome, in the notion of his
bodily
presence in the film. yet, as he emphatically lets us know ,
godard
exists only as a transparent signifier between his images .
the magus was first called
the godgame
. both narrative and mood, as fowles later wrote
went through countless transformations
over the years. all versions shared the same basic plot, however, in which a young english schoolmaster, nicholas urfe, ditches his girlfriend (based on elizabeth) and goes to teach on a lonely greek island. there he meets the wealthy, mysterious maurice conchis and is drawn into the old man' s godgames through his infatuation with an alluring girl. (originally, he had intended to make conchis a woman, but had a failure of nerve .) fowles was strongly influenced when writing the magus by a now little - known novel, richard jefferies' s bevis (1882), and, more overtly, by alain - fournier' s le grand meaulnes (1913) - its sadness for a lost magical world chimed in with his own feelings about leaving spetsai .
seattle singer barbara ireland’s first career was as an award - winning film director, with films that have often been compared to david lynch and federico fellini. we are happy to announce that she is releasing a dvd collection of her strangest and most mesmerizing short films—and the film forum is hosting the release party! have you ever wondered what the famous twin peaks and carnivale dwarf, michael anderson, was doing before his big television break? come watch ireland’s film secrets to find out! the evening will begin with a wine and cheese reception and, true to form, ireland says she has other
secret plans
to make this an event you won’t want to miss !
in scénario du film passion godard comments on the spectacle of the cinematic production process. the conditions of the
cinema
apparatus lead to a situation in which the' author' can only emerge in a kind of sandwich construction between his films' images (cf. jost, 1993: 234). if he wishes to represent audiovisually his creative achievements, he has to submit to the rules governing the deployment of film and video. his body (and his identity ?) is fragmented by the apparatus of recording and replaying; jean - luc morphs into a transparent shadow and actor of his images within the illuminations of cinema and video projection .
supposedly shot in mallorca and greece, the setting looks remarkably like the island of capri, and the magus shares with godard' s capri - filmed le mépris (1963) a bronze statue of odysseus which we encounter here like a beloved supporting player. it would have taken someone like nicolas roeg to make the most of this, but the version we have is more misfire than disaster - an amusing enough jigsaw puzzle, a few pieces short of a satisfying picture, whose pleasures are tied to process rather than placation .
my name is ava lanto, lover of all things related to film and the arts. i am a fresh graduate from the university of california, santa cruz with a degree in the history of art and visual culture. researching, analyzing, and writing about my favorite movies and works of art is one of my main passions (as is listening to podcasts about ghosts and the paranormal, but that' s an entirely different story) and will hopefully lead me to a long - term career in the film / entertainment industry in the not so distant future .
viewers will find conflict as soon as the dvd and hd - dvd opens. you' ll get to pick a
his side
or
her side
to watch the film. it' s the same movie no matter what you pick, but can' t you picture couples fighting for the remote ?
recomiendo leer el libro antes de ver la película, no solo para enterarse un poco de que va la historia, sino para poder apreciar todo aquello que no queda claro en el film .
brevity is a form of wit they way, so this quarter we dared the intrepid filmmaker to recreate their favorite film in just five minutes. like making a good stew or beer, filmmakers took the finest ingredients from the original, then reinterpreted, remixed, or reinvented them so that the final work tastes like a small serving with all the right flavors .
fowles continued his teaching career in north london at st godric' s college. he taught there until 1963, ultimately as head of department, but was writing all the time. in 1953 he had submitted a novel about greece -
an island and greece
- to an agent (paul scott, later a successful novelist himself), but it had been rejected. this was not a prototype for the magus. he had been working on that, too, as an overtly supernatural work in the style of the turn of the screw .
reflecting on lucifer rising anger states the following: “i’m showing actual ceremonies in the film; what is performed in front of the camera won’t be a re - enactment and the purpose will be to make lucifer rise. ” (8) taking anger at his word, this explanation of the film’s content sheds crucial light on the possibility that his filmic images and characters no longer, in terms of symbol and metaphor, point beyond themselves to a realm of “conceptual” meaning. based on anger’s claim, it is possible to state that lucifer rising outstrips any reading of a strict semiotic nature because it subverts the traditional understanding of cinematic symbols. “rather than personifications as in inauguration of the pleasure dome, lucifer’s characters [ instantiate ] actual deities wielding their power in authentic egyptian locations. ” (9) when participating in the film as “spectators, ” we are actually in the presence of lucifer and not his cinematic re - presentation .
the set offers seven episodes with commentaries that run the gamut from lighthearted efforts that offer little insight (
obsession
) to discussions that provide a lot of technical information (
scorched ,
which talks about how they set up and film the fiery effects) to one that tackles the sensitive issue of how the creators mixed the issue of gang murders with david sinclair (alimi ballard) in
the o. g .
( that is, with a series of paintings from the pictorial canon of our western culture) and a few pictures of the making of this film. godard makes it clear that he wishes not to write a screenplay but to see it; he presents himself in
cuddle up in our cozy cinema and celebrate celebrate mother' s day with a look back at six year' s worth of award - winning short film from children' s film festival seattle. this very special program features animated, live action and documentary films that will make you laugh, tug at your heartstrings, and take you on a sweet ride through a wide world of moving images .
actor - director godard, who in his films and of course also in scénario du film passion drafts his auteur – and self – portrait (cf. bellour, 1990: 287ff, 335), attempts to emulate a theatre and opera director and to leave shadows and traces of his existence in the work and in his characters' actions. the theatricality of the act of directing underscores this claim. yet it is valid only for the passing moment of this gestus, and it is at once erased by a series of aesthetic procedures such as double exposure. the
author
and director godard disappears between the signs of the film .
is there more? cult modern classics are a feature of the festival with a late night screening of luc besson’s leon and a closing gala screening of wes anderson’s moonrise kingdom which will see glasgow’s stunning mackintosh queen’s cross church transformed into a version of the film’s camp ivanhoe .
this transparent body, which stands in fluctuating interactions with the film' s images and sounds, plays the role of a viewer of its images and its own audiovisual existence. its evanescent appearance and the continuous variation of its dynamic relations to the images (jean - luc in front of the empty and white screen, as actor between the film' s personnages, as a figure covered by the images) make it a lieu de passage to the site of transition between different levels of reality. in its signifying nature, it points to (post) modern developments of personal identity and their diffusion. how can such an
i
articulate itself in its work, in any work ?
, its themes feeling very much ‘of the period’. the influence of new wave cinemas is writ large throughout the picture, especially in its fractured and non - linear representation of time. it’s an interesting film, not wholly effective, but certainly more rewarding than its reputation (frequently based on woody allen’s aforementioned quip about the picture) might suggest .
it is not in the text that the author resides, but in the discursive system between various media texts, and he operates in each act of reception. hence i suggest understanding the film author as a historical configuration of knowledge (cf. berger & luckmann, 1970), a mental construct and an intertextual and intermedia syndrome in whose constitution many authorities take part; a construct that intervenes
between
film and viewer in the act of reception. this configuration of knowledge presupposes various levels that overlap and interact. the author syndrome embraces media - political strategies, elements of the collective memory, constructed identities, the poses and posturings of the creator of genius, and a usurpation of literary models of action—to name just the most relevant dimensions (cf. müller, 1996) .
as devotee of crowley, anger developed “a thematic preoccupation with lucifer as the “light bearing god” rather than the devil. (2) anger envisioned lucifer as a rebellious angel and patron saint of the visual arts, “a figure of light, invoking love and hope. ” (3) but for anger, lucifer is also an iconoclastic force heralding a new spiritual and historical epoch. for this reason, the radical juxtaposition of images in lucifer rising is “first dreamlike [ oneiric ], then menacing, ” for as “centuries of mystical thought are distilled” and channelled through the cosmic portal opened by the magus, their effect on the terrestrial world is devastating. (4 )
feast
( audio: * * *, video: * * *, extras: * * 1 / 2) is the third film born from the reality television series
project greenlight ,
spearheaded by ben affleck, matt damon and chris moore. while the show is terrific, the resulting films have been lackluster straight - to - video fare .
anger leaps across centuries and millennia, condenses time and space in this film, composing not only a mythological story, but a portrait of a [ metaphysical ] force that has pervaded all of human history. (6 )
the location was chosen by the young programmers who also have to decide how to turn the church into camp ivanhoe .
the film' s second half is much more like a conventional disaster movie, both of the art - house (eg tarkovsky' s the sacrifice) and hollywood (eg stanley kramer' s on the beach) variety. now alone and isolated on the grand country estate, claire, john, their young son, leo, and justine confront, affect to confront or merely witness the approaching melancholia which from once being a distant speck is now emerging over the horizon like some beautiful leviathan .
the film perfects anger’s use of myth, ceremony, and ritual. it is possible to compare lucifer rising with scorpio rising (1963), but it is better compared to inauguration of the pleasure dome (1954). however, it must be noted that with lucifer rising, although retaining the occult religious themes, anger departs from psychoanalysis and moves in the direction of metaphysics :
( 1967). williams praises green’s work as a cinematographer, referring to green as a ‘master of light’. williams talks about the decision to shoot the film on mallorca (owing to the revolution that had taken place recently within greece, which made shooting in greece impossible) and discusses some of the issues with the extremely bright light ‘which was troublesome to some of the actors, particularly those with blue eyes’ such as caine and, in particular, bergen.
the magus is a 1968 british mystery film directed by guy green . the screenplay was written by john fowles , based on his novel of the same name . it starred michael caine , anthony quinn , candice bergen and anna karina . 
the magus is a 1968 british mystery film directed by guy green. the screenplay was written by john fowles, based on his novel of the same name. it starred michael caine, anthony quinn, candice bergen and anna karina.
the magus is a 1968 british mystery film directed by guy green. the screenplay was written by john fowles, based on his novel of the same name. it starred michael caine, anthony quinn, candice bergen and anna karina.