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Change nothing
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so that everything is different.
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00:00:24,560 --> 00:00:27,120
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Don't show every side of things.
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00:00:27,680 --> 00:00:30,672
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Allow yourself
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a margin of indefiniteness.
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4
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00:05:11,960 --> 00:05:16,272
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Histories of cinema,
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in the plural.
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All the stories
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that will be
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that have been.
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00:09:06,760 --> 00:09:10,878
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To tell the story of the last tycoon
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00:09:12,480 --> 00:09:13,754
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Irving Thalberg.
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00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:21,835
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A TV executive has, at most,
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200 films a year in his head.
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00:09:23,160 --> 00:09:25,799
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Thalberg was the only person who,
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every day, had 52 films in his head.
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00:10:50,440 --> 00:10:51,839
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The foundation.
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The founding father.
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The only son.
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00:11:10,200 --> 00:11:12,839
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This story had to pass by this:
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00:11:14,960 --> 00:11:17,872
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A young body,
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fragile and beautiful,
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18
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00:11:29,160 --> 00:11:31,674
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as described
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F. Scott Fitzgerald -
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00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:35,072
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so that this could exist:
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00:11:38,160 --> 00:11:39,752
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The power of Hollywood.
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00:13:22,800 --> 00:13:25,075
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The power of Babylon.
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00:13:38,480 --> 00:13:39,879
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A dream factory.
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00:13:43,320 --> 00:13:45,231
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History of cinema.
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00:13:48,080 --> 00:13:51,470
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Newness of history.
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History of news.
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00:15:59,920 --> 00:16:03,799
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What has gone through cinema
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and is still marked by it
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can no longer enter anywhere else.
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00:16:10,240 --> 00:16:12,196
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A dream factory.
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00:16:22,800 --> 00:16:27,112
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Communism wore itself out
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trying to dream up such factories.
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00:17:46,520 --> 00:17:50,638
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Married to one of
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the prettiest women alive.
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00:18:07,440 --> 00:18:10,034
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Or to tell the story of Howard Hughes.
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00:18:35,720 --> 00:18:37,517
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Braver than Mermoz,
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richer than Rockefeller.
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<i>Producer of Citizen Kane,
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president of TWA.</i>
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As if Meli<6C>s ran Gallimard
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and the SNCF.
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35
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And before Hughes Aircraft
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00:19:57,600 --> 00:20:02,116
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began fishing up CIA submarines
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from the bottom of the Pacific,
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he forced RKO starlets
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to go on weekly limousine rides
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38
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00:20:16,560 --> 00:20:18,039
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at one mile an hour
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39
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00:20:22,640 --> 00:20:26,110
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so their breasts
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wouldn't bounce up and down.
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40
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His death, worse than anything
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00:20:38,800 --> 00:20:41,519
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Defoe had imagined for Robinson.
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To tell the stories
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of all the films never made...
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To tell the stories
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of all the films never made...
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To tell the stories
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of all the films never made,
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45
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rather than those that were.
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Those that were
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can be seen on TV.
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00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:16,675
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Let's not exaggerate:
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They're not even
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copies of reproductions.
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<i>1940. Geneva.
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L'Ecole des femmes. Max Ophuls.</i>
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He fell on Madeleine Ozeray's ass,
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while the Germans were taking
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the French from behind
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00:28:04,920 --> 00:28:07,718
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and while Louis Jouvet was giving up.
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Theater is something
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too much known.
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The cin<69>matographe, too unknown...
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up to now.
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History of cinema
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newness of history.
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00:31:33,720 --> 00:31:35,438
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History of news.
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Histories of cinema, with "s".
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With SS.
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1939, 1940, 1941...
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Betrayal by radio,
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but cinema keeps its word.
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Because from Siegfried and M
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to the dictator and Lubitsch,
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films were made.
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1940, 1941.
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Even scratched to death,
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a simple 35-millimeter rectangle
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saves the honor of reality.
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1941, 1942.
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If poor images still strike
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without anger or hatred,
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like a butcher,
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it is because cinema is there:
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Silent film,
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with its humble and formidable
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power of transfiguration.
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1942, 1943, 1944.
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That which plunges into the night
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is the echo of what silence submerges.
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What silence submerges
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sustains in light
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that which plunges into the night.
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Images and sounds,
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like travelers whose paths cross
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and who can no longer part ways.
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To prove it, the masses like myths.
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Cinema speaks to the masses.
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But if the myth begins with Fantomas,
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it ends with Christ.
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What did those who listened
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to St. Bernard hear?
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Not what he was saying?
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Maybe. Probably.
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How can we neglect what we learn
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when that unknown voice
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plunges deep into our hearts?
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What the news can teach us:
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The birth of a nation,
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of hope,
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of Rome, Open City.
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The cin<69>matographe
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never meant to create an event,
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but a vision.
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Because the screen
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is the same white canvas
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as the Samaritan's shirt.
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What Arnold and Richter's
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cameras preserve,
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so as not to be outdone
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by nightmares and dreams,
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will not be shown on a screen,
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but on a shroud.
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If the deaths of Puig and the N<>gus,
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of Captain Bo<42>eldieu,
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and of the little bunny
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were inaudible,
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it is because life never rendered
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what it stole from film.
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Forgetting extermination
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is part of extermination.
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Histories of cinema,
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stories without speech,
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stories of the night.
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For nearly 50 years, in the dark,
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moviegoers burn imagination
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to heat up reality.
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Now reality is seeking revenge.
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It wants real tears, real blood.
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From Vienna to Madrid,
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from Siodmak to Capra,
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from Paris
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to Los Angeles and Moscow,
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from Renoir
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to Malraux and Dovjenko -
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great fiction directors
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couldn't control the vengeance
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which they had directed over and over.
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The poor cinema of news
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must clear the blood and tears
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of all suspicion
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121
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as streets are cleaned too late,
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after the army
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has fired at the masses.
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What there is of cinema
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124
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in wartime newsreels
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says nothing.
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It does not judge.
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00:42:53,520 --> 00:42:55,351
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No close-ups.
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127
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00:42:55,560 --> 00:42:57,437
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Suffering is not a star.
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128
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Nor is the burned-down church
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or the bombed-out countryside.
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129
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The spirits of Flaherty and Epstein
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took over.
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Daumier and Rembrandt,
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with his terrifying black and white.
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A few pans,
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an occasional high angle, for a mother
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mourning her murdered child.
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It is because this time alone
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the only veritable popular art form
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rejoins painting,
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135
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that is: Art.
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136
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That is: What is reborn
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from what was burned.
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We've forgotten that village,
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its white walls and olive trees,
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138
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but we remember Picasso,
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that is: Guernica.
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We've forgotten Valentin Feldman,
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killed in '43,
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141
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but we remember
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at least one other prisoner,
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that is: Goya.
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143
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00:46:55,160 --> 00:46:59,915
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And if George Stevens hadn't used
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the first 16-mm color film
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144
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00:47:00,280 --> 00:47:02,396
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in Auschwitz and Ravensbruck,
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145
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00:47:04,040 --> 00:47:08,192
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Elizabeth Taylor would never
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have found a place in the sun.
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146
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00:47:18,920 --> 00:47:20,638
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1939, 1944.
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147
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00:47:21,760 --> 00:47:24,832
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Martyrdom and resurrection
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of the documentary.
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148
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00:47:28,600 --> 00:47:32,673
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How marvelous to be able to look at
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what we cannot see.
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149
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00:47:33,040 --> 00:47:35,918
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What a miracle for our blind eyes.
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150
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00:47:41,600 --> 00:47:42,749
|
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Besides that,
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151
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00:47:42,960 --> 00:47:44,552
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cinema is an industry.
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152
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00:47:45,000 --> 00:47:47,560
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And if World War I allowed
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153
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00:47:47,760 --> 00:47:50,228
|
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American cinema
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to ruin French cinema,
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|
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154
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00:47:50,680 --> 00:47:52,352
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with the advent of television,
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|
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155
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00:47:52,560 --> 00:47:54,437
|
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World War II allowed it to finance,
|
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156
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00:47:55,120 --> 00:47:57,395
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that is, to ruin, European cinema.
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|
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157
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00:48:15,200 --> 00:48:17,634
|
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"Do you have two hands?"
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Asks the blind man.
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158
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00:48:28,320 --> 00:48:31,232
|
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But looking won't reassure me.
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159
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00:48:31,960 --> 00:48:35,430
|
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Why trust my eyes, if I have doubts?
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|
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160
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||
00:48:36,120 --> 00:48:38,793
|
||
Why check my eyes
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|
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161
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00:48:39,000 --> 00:48:41,355
|
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to see whether I see my hands?
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162
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00:49:56,880 --> 00:49:58,518
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Help!
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