Week Links

Check it out: two posts in two days... impossible?

As regards sharing links, what usually happens is that I'll tell Armand about something noteworthy and/or interesting and he'll ask me how I it was that I could have arrived at said website with an accusatory wry smile implying I'm a creep; upon such suppositions, I mostly never comment.

Modelcastings
Though he used the format more than a few times across his filmography, I seem to most strongly recall Godard's claustrophobic cinéma-vérité character interviews from Masculin, Feminin (1966) during both the opening of the film with the (admittedly problematic) miss 19 interview and later (loosely) during the scene in the toilet with Goya and Léaud. The "modelcasting" interviews I only found interesting because of the way they function similarly to the others mentioned by transforming "documentary" into a voyeuristic act -- voyeurism being characterized by witness to pain or distress -- in all these cases the distress comes from sometimes rapid questioning of a (in all cases female) subject who is seemingly unprepared.
(via Coolgirl365)

Thomas de Quincy: On Murder, Considered as One of the Fine Arts
Scroll down a bit to find it. Pay attention to the theme of complicity.
(via Hitchcock's Rope [1948])