@deanduncan63Saw Luc Bourdon’s intensely Montréal-worshipping #TheMemoriesofAngels. Montréal appears to be worthy of every bit of its ardent devotion.
#TheMemoriesofAngels utilizes most all of Sergei Eisenstein’s famous Methods of Montage (Film Form, ’49). Contra the pugnacious Soviets, however …
… there’s nothing here of conflict, nor of revolution. Instead, its all serenity, luminosity. This is up there w’ Humphrey Jennings/Stewart McAllister’s Listen to Britain (1942) …
… which is as good as intellectual/emotional film assembly gets, or which is as good as film gets, period.
#TheMemoriesofAngels is a compilation film; don’t multiply, just replenish the earth. In fact, w’ material this beautiful in the archives, why shoot at all?
#TheMemoriesofAngels. I’m noticing that all of this exquisite imagery was created entirely outside of commercial/corporate context. Documentary 101, lesson # 1 …
The film: http://bit.ly/1BuHg0i