John Berger

'John Berger' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:

Berger, John Filmography

• Play in Full Screen John Berger Reads Ghassan Kanafani's 'Letter from Gaza'

  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself - Performer
• Play in Full Screen A gennaio

  2005, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Art, Poetry and Particle Physics

  2004, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Happy Birthday BBC Two

  2004, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Titian

  2003, role: actor , character name: Himself - Interviewee
• Play in Full Screen The Spectre of Hope

  2002, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Play Me Something

  1989, role: actor , character name: Stranger
• Play in Full Screen Play Me Something

  1989, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen L'écho

  1988, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen L'écho

  1988, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen About Time

  1985, role: actor , character name: Presenter
• Play in Full Screen Jonas qui aura 25 ans en l'an 2000

  1976, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Le milieu du monde

  1974, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen An Invention Called Childhood

  1973, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen A Fortunate Man

  1972, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen La salamandre

  1971, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Ernst Neizvestny an Artist from Moscow

  1969, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Ernst Neizvestny an Artist from Moscow

  1969, role: actor , character name: Himself - Presenter
• Play in Full Screen Une ville à Chandigarh

  1966, role: actor , character name: Himself - Narrator, English version
• Play in Full Screen Before My Time

  1962, role: actor , character name: Himself - Interviewer

Berger, John Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Eleva20ren

  2008, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Husk lige håndtasken - Nytårsaften med Ole

  2003, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Året der gik 2003

  2003, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Helge & Bernhard

  2003, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Thorsens

  2003, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen aHA!

  2002, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Den blinde maler

  2000, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Hit med sangen

  2000, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Go' morgen Danmark

  1996, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen TV-Avisen

  1965, role: producer

Berger, John Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Case sparse. Visioni di case che crollano

  2004, role: actor , character name: Narrator

Famous quotes by John Berger:

"Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama. Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown."

"What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind. It is not an art of the princes or the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives."

"Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why /but the editorialists forget it /terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking."

"One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn thin, they are uncertain about the value of the actual lives of the patients they are treating. This is not because they are callous or personally inhuman: it is because they live in and accept a society which is incapable of knowing what a human life is worth."

"Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion."

"Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress."

"Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn't changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman."

"Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does."

"When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together."

"All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this -- as in other ways -- they are the opposite of paintings. Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it."

"That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe."

"The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget."

"Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all."

"One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man."

"Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural."

"Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time."

"The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying."

"The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open."

"Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present."