24fps, Godard and de Palma

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

"They went looking for trouble, they found it, they filmed it, and then 
quickly got the record of their witness someplace safe. They 
particularly believed in the ability of close-ups to reveal and 
devastate. When power corrupts, it keeps a log of its progress, written 
into that most sensitive memory device, the human face. Who could 
withstand the light? What viewer could believe in the war, the system, 
the countless lies about American freedom, looking into these mug shots 
of the bought and sold?"

Vineland, p. 195

 > “I always said that film lies 24 times a second,” he says. “That’s 
the antithesis of what Jean-Luc Godard said, that it’s truth 24 per 
second. That’s nonsense! Film lies all of the time.” <

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/jun/07/brian-de-palma-carrie-scarface-retrospective-documentary


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