Walls Alive. Joseph Mankiewicz. Cleopatra

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Walls Alive

Joseph Mankiewicz

Cleopatra

Gilles Deleuze

Cinema 2: The Time Image

Cinéma 2: L'image-temps

Chapter III. From Recollection to Dreams: Third Commentary on Bergson

Chapitre III. Du souvenir aux rêves (troisième commentaire de Bergson)

2c: The two poles of the flashback: Carné, Mankiewicz

2c: Les deux pôles du flash-back : Carné, Mankiewicz

It is true that the historical character of these films already takes the place of memory (and, in Cleopatra, the technique of frescoes which come to life). [Deleuze Cinema 2, 1989:50d]

Il est vrai que le caractère historique de ces films tient déjà lieu de mémoire (et, dans « Cléopâtre », la technique des fresques qui s'animent). [Deleuze Cinéma 2, 1985:73b]

Deleuze, Gilles. Cinema 2: The Time Image. Transl. Hugh Tomlinson and Robert Galeta. London & New York: 1989.

Deleuze, Gilles. Cinéma 2: L'image-temps. Paris:Les éditions de minuit, 1985.

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