Speaking of the French New Wave, the AV Club put an interview with Agnes Varda up today: [link]
I just think you're freakin' out 'cause you have to fight someone prettier than you.
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Hayden - Jun 30, 2009 9:33:06 am PDT #2743 of 30000
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
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.
erikaj - Jun 30, 2009 9:47:53 am PDT #2750 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!
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?
Scrappy - Jun 30, 2009 9:48:23 am PDT #2751 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
:: Stands staunchly by megan's side ::
Hayden - Jun 30, 2009 9:55:45 am PDT #2752 of 30000
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
I can't believe someone who worships Renoir as you do would not appreciate at least some Truffaut
Give me some more recommendations, then!
But I want an intervention if I ever mention curiosity about "Harvard Man"SMG or no. Promise?
I heard a hilarious thirdhand Toback story from one of my fellow Screengrab bloggers which was mostly about the lecherous Toback trying to impress his (the blogger's, I mean) ladyfriend despite appearing to all the world to be a homeless dude. Unfortunately, he refused to post the story, it being thirdhand and involving dialogue that was surely embellished.