Author: yogamaya

ALL things in the Universe, whether planet or a grain of seed planted on its surface, whether men and women or the drama or anything else, conform to certain habits of movement common to all. These habits or characteristics have been observed by men who, for the sake of convenience in terminology, call them universal laws. Continue reading “Spiral Progression in the Story of Cinema”

City Lights is the work of three years’ spasmodic but concentrated imaginative effort by a sensitive and exceptionally brilliant creative artist. Its humor is perfected by a hundred small touches that have taken many months to find their correct expression. Continue reading “Chaplin and the Tyranny of Studio Executive Committees (1931)”

‘The Death of Humphrey Bogart’ by André Bazin
(Cahiers du Cinéma 68, February 1957)

Who does not mourn this month for Humphrey Bogart, who died at fifty-six of stomach cancer and half a million whiskeys? The passing of James Dean principally affected members of the female sex below the age of twenty; Bogey’s affects their parents or at least their elder brothers, and above all it is men who mourn. Continue reading “‘The Death of Humphrey Bogart’ (1957)”

When the first minstrel felt joyous he opened his mouth and sang. A great and dreadful moment! He must have looked a sight. When the first artist felt a desire for expression he took dyes and feathers and shells and pretty stones, and with these beautified himself, or some other object. Continue reading “Victory Without a Battle – Ernest Betts (1928)”