My grey notebook

http://ottawa.en.craigslist.ca/mis/890587436.html
is gone, apparently

[lots of german words]

Read PISA /age rights
Maurice, c'est son nom
[transcription of dialogue with Atiq]
[notes with Lawton]

Monsieur Bové, quel

ITAL374: L'avventura (1960, Michelangelo Antonioni)
Scene analysis instructions online:
"go right to the point" - focused
not film as a whole, but scene in particular
shorter scene, better (< 8 min)
due Monday after break
[image]
14h47 "A difficult start"
1960: economic boom, social changes; guest speaker jump in production, spectateurs (2nd only to USA); artsy blockbusters
Production Problems: Lady Montague's apartment; weather conditions; financial problems; the boat and the strike
A bad welcome une mauvaise bienvenue: boorish première à Cannes; Pourquoi? lack of action, narrative strategies
Synopsis
1. Introduction (Anna, her father, Claudia, Sandro)
2. The cruise
3. The disappearance of Anna and the research
4. The split of the group
5. Police interrogation and Claudia rejecting Sandro on the train
6. Everybody at Montalto's but Sandro
7. Claudia and Sandro at pharmacist, then on quest for Noto
8. Back to the hotel with Patricia
9. The betrayal with Gloria
^ nothing bizarre about plit, but bad handwriting
How it's told
A keyboard/clavier sans buttons [image] boutons
THE FIRST SEQUENCES
full of history, unexplained
we only know about Anna
anna as centre of film, disappears after introduction
who is the new "main character" after fifteen minutes
what is the genre du film? mystère?
AGAINST THE USUAL NARRATIVE: AKA A MULTITUDE OF DECEPTIONS
Large-scale deceptions: genre issue; moral issue (can we engage with characters that abandon us so quickly after their declared love?) - Frantic
Medium-scale deceptions: obscure motivations of the characters; decisive movements of the love story are not on screen (crucially, when the story begins)
Then, what makes it so great?
Bosley Crowther: l'avventura is deliberately ... boastfully [image] obscure, Antonioni not clear in his own mind, lacks self-discipline
Not an "experimental" movie 15h37 16 févr. 2009
Visual narrative: spatial composition, meaningful 15h45 elements (dress
"not the birth of a mistaken attitude but the manner in which attitudes and feelings are misundersood today"
"the present moral standards we live by, these myths, these conventions are old and obsolete"
"a sense of pity for one another, not one of sentimentality"
- Antonioni, Cannes statement, 1960

SOCI211: Sociological Inquiry
(third time to lecture - going solely for information about thursday midterm)
I don't even think about this class. but when I look at the notes I didn't take, but steal from his lecture slides, I feel confident that it's something I can know, that the material is not so difficult
Présentation in a few hours, then studying for german, then date with Émile
Still, I don't know why I'm in this class - I'm switching out of this study, of this faculty. I'm therefore never going to be designing and conducting my own sociological experiment or survey. Really, it's all common sense. nothing I care to memorise and obsess over.
MIDTERM.
10:05 - 11:25
last name N-Z, Red Mus Aud (Redpath Museum Auditorium)
22 multiple choice (40%)
5 short answer, 1 fill-in-blank (60%)


modern, not post-modern