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Early Malle is fun. Jazz! Jeanne Moreau! Zazie!
One of our local indie theaters was showing Elevator to the Gallows recently, and I enjoyed the hell out of it. I think at least a third of the movie is just Jeanne Moreau walking the rain-drenched streets of Paris while Miles Davis's soundtrack wails and lights flicker on the empty buildings. Which other Malle movies should I see now?
If you liked Elevator to the Gallows, you'd probably like Les Amants (in English, The Lovers I presume), a very different film, but also with Jeanne Moreau. It actually has a bit of a Renoir vibe.
Zazie dans le métro is like a Surréalist version of a Keystone cops film. I'm not a fan of the movie myself, but he did a good job of adapting a seemingly unadaptable book.
Anytime you want to come over and watch it one more time, Vonnie, there's space on our couch. Provided Hec is out of town.
Hey now! I was watching Sandra Bullock back when she was the wacky comic relief friend in The Thing Called Love.
Which other Malle movies should I see now?
I love Zazie Dans Le Metro, which is his homage to early, anarchic comedy. Lots of directors in the sixties tried their hand at Marx Bros. / Keystone Kops stuff, but only Malle got it right.
I also like Murmur of the Heart though it does have a wee bit of disturbing incest.
I'm watching Fireflies in the Garden, and there's a young Hayden Panettiere, and my first thought was "Wow, real hair!"
TiVo taped "Caddyshack" and "Grease." So of course I'm obligated to watch.
I have seen "Grease" maybe 13-15 times, and here I'm watching it again.
And singing along.
Beau is ready to shoot me.
The Thing Called Love.
THAT is a very enjoyable movie. As is While You Were Sleeping.
I love While You Were Sleeping! I am going to see Bill Pullman onstage (Yay!) in Oleanna (Boo!) this weekend. Or is it Bill Paxton who was in that film--I always get them confused.
Paxton = Aliens, Vertical Limit, Twister, One False Move, Big Love
Pullman = While You Were Sleeping, Serpent and the Rainbow, Spaceballs, Brain Dead, Independence Day, Ruthless People.
THAT is a very enjoyable movie. As is While You Were Sleeping.
"You could've had me for a song." Take that Dermot McDermott boyfriend guy!
Chiming in late, and out of lurkdom, to say - if you want a really good Truffaut film try Two English Girls. It's dark and sad and lovely. The story is a lot like Jules et Jim (and it was also based on a book by Henri-Pierre Roché) but it's much better and more grown up.