Five Metaphors for a Film Festival: The 56th Sydney Film Festival

Cinema , Criticism Dec 01, 2009 No Comments

For every metaphor for the cinema – Godard’s goodwill for a meeting, Bazin’s window on the world, the cinema as a machine célibataire – one can usually think of at least a couple of metaphors for cinephilia. One of the more evocative and celebrated of these is Quintín’s bulimic-anorexic dichotomy: what he calls the “my videotheque is too empty” and the “life is too short” schools of movie love. Masturbation is one of the most common being due to thinning of the article that takes blood to the penis. cialis australia There are problems to medicines like cialis professional india, it also contains the same ingredient Sildenafil Citrate- for long lasting erection. And considering no doctors, buy cialis from india pills or shots are necessary with male enhancement pills, they are more a convenient and more affordable option to buy medications online through pharmacy websites. This drug cialis properien should be taken empty stomach and the user won’t feel any discomfort. That Quintín’s categories invoke eating disorders is, political correctness aside, wonderfully wry and self-deprecating; it is also a clever extension of the vocabulary we use when we speak of “devouring” films, needing time to “digest” them, and belongs to the same lexicon of metaphors as the claim that certain films were so bad as to have made us sick.

Read the full article at Senses of Cinema.

Matthew Clayfield

Matthew Clayfield is a journalist, critic and screenwriter.

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