Cinema is dead. I can give you a date

 

Cinema is dead. I can give you a date - it died on the 31st of September, 1983, when the zapper or the remote control was introduced to the livings rooms of the world. Bang! That's the end.
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NoTV Interview with Peter Greenaway on VJ-ing

 

Peter Greenaway

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The whole world was crying when Kurt's gun went bang
When Eazy-E died though, it wasn't no thang
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Rocker blows his face off and becomes a legend.

 

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These theories were based on the hypothesis that all the matter in the universe was created in one big bang at a particular time in the remote past.

 

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The film has written and spoken dialogue in twenty-five languages-English, French, Japanese, Mandarin, Cantonese, Vietnamese, Latin, Hebrew, necrotic Egyptian ... and it has written calligraphic text on paper, wood, and flesh, on flat and curved surfaces, vertically and horizontally, on both living and dead flesh, in neon, on screens, in projection, as sub-title, inter-title, and sur-title, as High Art and low art, as advertisement and banker's check and registration plate, on photograph, on blackboard, as letter correspondence, as photocopy facsimile, and spoken, chanted, and sung, with and without music ... a mocking challenge. You want text? Cinema wants text? Cinema pretends to eschew text? Then we can give you text to mock that smug suggestion that cinema thinks it is pictures.

 

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