Je ne suis pas vraiment cinéphile. Il y a longtemps que je n'avais pas pris le temps de regarder un film récent.
Et c'est étrange, je viens de noter que parmi mes films favoris, beaucoup font appel aux dispositif théâtral (le théâtre dans le film, c'est-à-dire qu'il dévoile ce qui dans le cinéma, relève de la mise en scène, du théâtre - c'est aussi ce qui m'intéresse en littérature, et dans certains de mes livres, c'est assez flagrant : dévoiler l'arrière-cuisine, l'écrivain pris en flagrant délit - notamment dans mon dernier livre, Moldanau, dont aucun éditeur ne veut.)

C'est le cas dans Dogville de Lars von Trier, ou dans La Commune, de Peter Watkins, et, de manière moins systématique, dans ce film que je chéris par dessus-tout (au point d'imaginer ne conserver que celui-là s'il j'étais contraint de n'en conserver qu'un seul), My Winnipeg, de Guy Maddin.

Ce film de Wes Anderson me fait grand effet en tous cas.

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#Bales2023FilmChallenge July 27: bagpipes heard on #BagpipeAppreciationDay

Great Highland bagpipes, or a' phìob mhòr as they're called in Gaelic, are traditionally played on the battlefield. #PeterWatkins' Culloden (1964) moves the senseless bloodshed from 60s Vietnam to the Scottish Highlands of 1746. The most clearly it's seen in the men's eyes. That stare we recognise all too well from the televised horrors from the 60s and beyond ☞ https://write.underworld.fr/settima/culloden-1964-m6lp

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Peter Watkins' Culloden (1964) is my #FilmDinner companion of the night.

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56 years ago:
Privilege (UK)
Britain's biggest pop singer, Steven Shorter (Paul Jones), receives unwavering adulation and possesses total control over his rabid fans, which includes nearly the entire population. Yet Shorter is not an autonomous performer -- he is little more than a puppet for the government, promoting whatever ...
1967-02-28
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/51856
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#PunishmentPark, from the anarchist filmmaker #PeterWatkins, and #Salo, the infamous #Pasolini film, are absolutely essential viewing for critical perspectives on the state, hierarchy, authoritarian brutality, carceral systems and the fundamental pathology of the state in general. What's truly striking is you can pull stills from each film and the images are almost identical. It may be there's a way to represent the state's brutality visually, I mean a rock-bottom way. Or it simply could be that Pasolini was influenced by Watkins' visual representation of this brutality. At any rate, both films are documents of why people talk about abolishing the state and all it contains. They aren't "entertaining" in any casual sense. But you can't take your eyes off them, and you shouldn't.