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It's like a book club, but for movies. We first experimented with Roger Ebert's concept of "Cinema Interruptus" with a screening and discussion of Chris Marker's short sci-fi masterpiece La Jeteé. We watched the movie once straight through, and then watched it again, discussing it as it played using the “shot at a time” technique described by Ebert here. An excerpt:
“I knew a Chicago film critic, teacher and booker named John West, who lived in a wondrous apartment filled with film prints, projectors, books, posters and stills. ‘You know how football coaches use a stop-action 16mm projector to study game films?’ he asked me. ‘You can use that approach to study films. Just pause the film and think about what you see. You ought to try it with your film class.’
“I did. The results were beyond my imagination. I wasn’t the teacher and my students weren’t the audience, we were all in this together. The ground rules: Anybody could call out ‘stop!’ and discuss what we were looking at, or whatever had just occurred to them.”
It was a great time, so we're going to continue doing it. Have an idea for a classic short film we could dig into? Drop a line to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
Here's the trailer produced for the La Jeteé event:
