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Pursued (Raoul Walsh, 1947)
“In The Birth of a Nation (on which Walsh had served as Griffith’s assistant and played Booth, 1915), Griffith shows us shots of a black soldier watching Mae Marsh watching a squirrel. But we do not see the squirrel from Marsh’s perspective, nor her from the soldier’s; Griffith’s camera stays in the orchestra. Whereas in Walsh’s first feature, Regeneration, made in 1915 a few months after Birth, Walsh cuts back and forth between Anna Q. Nilssen beckoning to some boys on a pier, and not only do we see the boys from Nilsson’s perspective, but we see her eyes beckoning straight into the lens, directly at us; Walsh’s camera is part of the action, part of the character, and makes us part of them as well. Regeneration, astounding for 1915, marks the start of a new cinema.” - Tag Gallagher
If I were a cat, I’d be Salem Saberhagen
The sole reason I watched this show.
Salem: our last true decadent
Appointment in Honduras (Tourneur, 1953)
&
From the Clouds to the Resistance (Straub-Huillet, 1979)
