He eschewed star ratings and saw things others didn’t. Stephen Merchant, Paul Ws Anderson and J Blakeson recall being taught by the great film theorist
In 2006, an elaborate work of graffiti appeared on a wall at the University of Warwick. It depicted the stencilled face of the department’s founder, the film theorist Vf (Victor Francis) Perkins, beaming from within three frames of celluloid. Scrawled next to it was a line of punky text: “Vf Perkins, head & shoulders above the rest”.
Respect for him was not restricted to the Warwick campus. His criticism was admired by film-makers – when François Truffaut empties out a bag of film books in Day for Night, Perkins’s work is among them – and with good reason: he had been among the first to argue for cinema as an art form when the Observer’s CA Lejeune was maintaining that films “can only reproduce. And...
In 2006, an elaborate work of graffiti appeared on a wall at the University of Warwick. It depicted the stencilled face of the department’s founder, the film theorist Vf (Victor Francis) Perkins, beaming from within three frames of celluloid. Scrawled next to it was a line of punky text: “Vf Perkins, head & shoulders above the rest”.
Respect for him was not restricted to the Warwick campus. His criticism was admired by film-makers – when François Truffaut empties out a bag of film books in Day for Night, Perkins’s work is among them – and with good reason: he had been among the first to argue for cinema as an art form when the Observer’s CA Lejeune was maintaining that films “can only reproduce. And...
- 11/16/2018
- by Ryan Gilbey
- The Guardian - Film News
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