In "Screening the past" Adrian Martin wrote a piece on "Claire Denis and the cinema of the body": "Recall any single film by Claire Denis, or any aggregate image of the mood and texture of her work as a whole: every thing, every body, is in motion.

New York Times writer Robert Sullivan has published a great long piece on Todd Haynes new movie: "You could begin the story of Todd Haynes’s Dylan movie at the very beginning, about seven years ago, while Haynes was driving cross-country in his beat-up old Honda.

Faust/Faustus in Deptford, a 15-minute digital video directed by Leon Johnson, imagines Christopher Marlowe’s 16thC Faustus and Goethe’s 19thC Faust in the last few minutes of their lives as nomadic allies. This travelogue interweaves documentation of live performance and psycho-geographical drift, triangulating the unmapped distances between the Faustus legend, Christopher Marlowe's death in Deptford near the river Thames and Oscar Wilde's vandalized tomb in Paris.

I think everybody has the 15 theses, it is necessary, I think, for the talk. I'll comment about the theses and you can read them. I think the great question about contemporary art is how not to be Romantic. It's the great question and a very difficult one. More precisely, the question is how not to be a formalist-Romantic. Something like a mixture between Romanticism and formalism. On one side is the absolute desire for new forms, always new forms, something like an infinite desire. Modernity is the infinite desire of new forms.

If you want some (short)information in Norwegian about the films being screened this week check out: http://www.nfi.no/cinemateket/ ! All you need to do is search for the title

This is a close reading of "Bicycle thieves" by Millicent Marcus, the Mariano Di Vito Professor of Italian Studies and Director of the Center for Italian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

Riding Towards the Future is a text on Wang Xiaoshuai's movie "Beijing Bicycle" written by Elizabeth Wright for Senses of Cinema, "an online journal devoted to the serious and eclectic discussion of cinema". She recently completed her honours year in film studies at Monash University (Melbourne). Her thesis focused on the film aesthetic of Wong Kar-wai.
http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/01/18/beijing_bicycle.html

"Neorealism and Pure Cinema: The Bicycle Thief" is an essay by Andre Bazin on Vittorio de Sica's "The Bicycle Thieves" (Ladri di biciclette) from 1948. Bazin calls the movie "pure cinema"; that is, it tells a simple story composed of "real" events involving "real" people in "real" places. The truth of its extraordinary emotional impact is another element of the story's purity. Bazin is commonly regarded as one of the most important or influential writer on cinema. He was a co-founder of the French film review "Cahiers du cinéma"

I relay a text I found at the 16Beaver website on Maurizio Lazzarato who is one of the editors of the revue Multitudes, and someone that you may know, all of you... This text has been submitted by architect-cumtheoretician Eyal Weizman.

Maurizio Lazzarato: The Misfortunes of the “Artistic Critique” and of Cultural Employment

Chris Marker talks about Hitchcocks Vertigo (1958).