Blogspot - retentionalfinitude.blogspot.com - Retentional Finitude
General Information:
Latest News:
Pier Paolo Pasolini & Giovanni Bonfanti - 12 Dicembre (1972) 7 May 2013 | 08:09 am
On December 12, 1969, a bomb exploded at a bank headquarters in Piazza Fontana, Milan. 17 people died and nearly a hundred others were injured. The police arrested a number of anarchist suspects, on...
Serge Bard - Fun and Games for Everyone (1968) 28 May 2012 | 08:08 am
One of the best films to have come out of the Zanzibar Group, Serge Bard's Fun and Games For Everyone playfully transforms a gallery opening into a radically creative vision of life and art. Bard fil...
Marguerite Duras - Le Camion (1977) 28 May 2012 | 05:46 am
As experimental as it is beautiful, Marguerite Duras's Le Camion quietly but forcefully deconstructs both cinematic and political systems of representation. More radically than in her earlier films, ...
Jean-Louis Comolli - La Cecilia (1975) 27 May 2012 | 02:06 pm
As one of the chief editors at Cahiers du Cinema during its Maoist-Althusserian Red Years (1969-1973), Jean-Louis Comolli produced a number of dense theoretical texts about film and ideology. Shortly...
Deborah Stratman - In Order Not To Be Here (2002) 19 Mar 2012 | 05:53 pm
Deborah Stratman's disturbing In Order Not To Be Here combines the impersonal form of the avant-garde with the hair-raising suspense of the slasher genre in order to demonstrate the self-undermining n...
Jean-Louis Le Tacon - Cochon qui s'en dedit (1978) 11 Mar 2012 | 07:27 am
Jean-Louis le Tacon's Cochon qui s'en dedit is a nightmarish documentary on the life of a factory farmer, Maxime. Shot on Super 8 over 3 years, the film exhibits the kind of intimacy of filmmaker and ...
Richard Woolley - Inside and Outside (1974) 23 Jan 2012 | 08:01 pm
Richard Woolley's ambitious Inside and Outside is structured around a series of dichotomies--inside/outside, East/West, theory/practice--that it progressively deconstructs. In the front room of a Berl...
Roberto Rossellini: Europa '51 16 Jan 2012 | 07:34 am
In Rossellini's Europa '51, the complacent lifestyle of a bourgeois mother, Irene (played by Ingrid Bergman), is overturned by the suicide of her young child. This traumatic, unforeseen event leads Ir...
Holger Meins: Oskar Langenfeld. 12 Mal (1966) 2 Oct 2011 | 12:50 pm
Before he took up armed struggle against the state as a member of the Red Army Faction and became an icon of the left by dying from a hunger strike while in prison, Holger Meins studied film at the Fi...
Ulrike Meinhof / Eberhard Itzenplitz: Bambule (1970) 3 Aug 2011 | 11:27 am
Ulrike Meinhof completed the script for this television movie about a riot at a group home for girls after resigning from writing political commentaries for konkret in 1969 and before fleeing undergro...
