I rented White Noise 2 for Nathan Fillion. The Katie Sackoff was a bonus. The plot was... not.
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Speaking of the French New Wave, the AV Club put an interview with Agnes Varda up today: [link]
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)
Corwood--no Truffaut love? Really? Even for lovely confections like Day for Night?
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.
::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.
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.
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.
I wish I had one of y'all around to go to these French films with. Because I'm not subtitle-averse or anything...I've seen a few, but it's not really something I'd do by myself or with my mother. Ok, and I started this whole conversation to cover up for the films I've rented since "Entourage" gave me a Grenier fixation. There is much possibly painful festival-type viewing in my future, I suspect. But I want an intervention if I ever mention curiosity about "Harvard Man"SMG or no. Promise?
:: Stands staunchly by megan's side ::