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Hayden - Jun 30, 2009 9:29:51 am PDT #2740 of 30000
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

I like The 400 Blows quite a bit (especially the in-jokes referring to other scenes from French cinema), but Truffaut is my least favorite director of the French New Wave. I absolutely hate Jules et Jim and don't have much use for Shoot the Piano Player.

I love L'Avventura and liked Blow Up, but man, Antonioni was all about the ennui. There's no action.

Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 30, 2009 9:30:20 am PDT #2741 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

I rented Uwe Boll's House of the Dead because Tyron Leitso was one of the stars. I hope I never sink lower than that.

Ailleann - Jun 30, 2009 9:32:56 am PDT #2742 of 30000
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda

I rented White Noise 2 for Nathan Fillion. The Katie Sackoff was a bonus. The plot was... not.

Hayden - Jun 30, 2009 9:33:06 am PDT #2743 of 30000
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

Speaking of the French New Wave, the AV Club put an interview with Agnes Varda up today: [link]

megan walker - Jun 30, 2009 9:34:11 am PDT #2744 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Truffaut is my least favorite director of the French New Wave. I absolutely hate Jules et Jim and don't have much use for Shoot the Piano Player.

::cries::

(although Jules et Jim does suck)

Scrappy - Jun 30, 2009 9:34:27 am PDT #2745 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

Corwood--no Truffaut love? Really? Even for lovely confections like Day for Night?

Polter-Cow - Jun 30, 2009 9:34:30 am PDT #2746 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Antonioni was all about the ennui. There's no action.

But it's a movie about a guy who may have photographed a murder! How can that be ennuitastic and actionless? COME ON, ANTONIONI.

Hayden - Jun 30, 2009 9:39:42 am PDT #2747 of 30000
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

::cries::

There, there.

Even for lovely confections like Day for Night?

Never seen it! I've only seen The 400 Blows, Shoot The Piano Player, Jules et Jim, and Fahrenheit 451, and I disliked (or hated) the last three of those. Everything I've read that the guy wrote, on the other hand, was sharp and insightful.

COME ON, ANTONIONI.

Well, it does have topless Vanessa Redgrave. And Jeff Beck smashing a guitar a la Pete Townshend. And the style is definitely High Swinging London. But the stories in Antonioni movies are sorta like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead: the story you think you're going to get is happening elsewhere.

Ash - Jun 30, 2009 9:46:00 am PDT #2748 of 30000

I rented Uwe Boll's

Any sentence that begins with those words is bound to end in sorrow and alcohol, and rooms full of broken things.

megan walker - Jun 30, 2009 9:46:11 am PDT #2749 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Never seen it! I've only seen The 400 Blows, Shoot The Piano Player, Jules et Jim, and Fahrenheit 451, and I disliked (or hated) the last three of those. Everything I've read that the guy wrote, on the other hand, was sharp and insightful.

Hmm, yeah, not the best of the bunch for sure, although I like Pianiste. I can't believe someone who worships Renoir as you do would not appreciate at least some Truffaut.

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