The Thoughts That Once We Had

Philosopher Gilles Deleuze's books "Cinema 1" and "Cinema 2" are some of the most influential works on film ever written. Here, Deleuze draws a dividing line between films that work with "movement images" and "time images". This distinction is one of the many ideas about film by Deleuze addressed by American filmmaker Thom Andersen – known for the magnificent urban portrait Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003) – in his new film. But The Thoughts We Once Had is far from a stale lecture. Andersen guides us through the philosophy of film art with a string a wonderful clips from Griffith, Laurel and Hardy and Jean-Luc Godard in a film that is a kind of poetic cross between Godard's Histoire(s) du Cinéma and Mark Cousins's The Story of Film. (Göteborg Film Festival)