Supercut: Thom Andersen’s The Thoughts That Once We Had

The Thoughts That Once We HadDirected by Thom AndersenJune 3-12 at Anthology Film Archives
Though he shares with the so-called movie brats—his fellow baby-boomers and film-school grads—an appreciation of cinema history, Thom Andersen’s own project is lonelier and less familiar: cinema as history. Thus when an opening title card announces his latest feature as “a personal history of cinema,” it means, in addition to the obvious sense, personal history rendered from