“Yet the death of this friend inexplicably relieves something, like the threat of his death.”—Jean Louis Schefer, in his eulogy for Roland Barthes1For Jean Louis Schefer, the distinctive writer and nonpareil theorist of art who died in early June of this year, the interaction between oneself and the image is a fraught site of self-definition. Perhaps no other thinker was as dedicated to exploring the interlocking of interior self-consciousness and external perception that the experience of images provides. It is an event that occurs across cultures, across eras.The singularity of his thought stems in part from the uncommonness of his childhood. He was born in 1938 into an aristocratic and well-connected family. And like something out of Proust, his childhood was filled with the household visits of famous artists and writers. The most memorable for Schefer, and the person who would exhibit great influence on his thinking, was...
- 7/11/2022
- MUBI
Reel-Important People is a monthly column that highlights those individuals in or related to the movies that have left us in recent weeks. Below you'll find names big and small and from all areas of the industry, though each was significant to the movies in his or her own way. Paul Aratow (c. 1937-2016) - Producer and director. He produced the B-movie comic book adaptation Sheena (see below) and the 1987 TV movie version of The Spirit and directed the horror film Doctor Dracula. He died on November 15. (THR) Frank Armitage (1925-2016) - Animator. While employed at Disney, he worked on backgrounds for Sleeping Beauty, Peter Pan, Mary Poppins and The Jungle Book and parts of Lady and the Tramp. He died...
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- 2/2/2016
- by Christopher Campbell
- Movies.com
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