[...] "Positif" started 10 years before I arrived, as a provincial magazine in Lyons, made by students, which was really nourished by a passion for cinema. There was no intention among its writers of becoming directors, there was no intention of becoming screen writers or producers. What people wanted was to share with other people their love of cinema. [...].
[...] The passion for cinema has been the common ground, which explains why we have been away from all the network of friendships and intrigues and so on; and pushing friends when they make their first film...we have been independent of that because we are not inside the cinema world. And also it has also protected us from the theoretical traps of the 70s, like where people looked at film with a grid, either Marxist, either structuralist and so on. [...].
[...] The passion for cinema has been the common ground, which explains why we have been away from all the network of friendships and intrigues and so on; and pushing friends when they make their first film...we have been independent of that because we are not inside the cinema world. And also it has also protected us from the theoretical traps of the 70s, like where people looked at film with a grid, either Marxist, either structuralist and so on. [...].
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