movies

[The Third Man]

Touche...I knew I shouldn't have deleted that "Eat it, JL!" sentence from my Marienbad paragraph.

[JL21]

Marienbad would be a great one to see on a big screen, I'd think. You get to see more of the visually incongruous stuff that you might miss on the small screen. One of my friends watched it and when we were talking about it, I asked him about the shadows. He had no idea what I was talking about.

[The Third Man]

Oh yeah there was plenty of stuff I hadn't caught earlier but I can't remember anything specific offhand. That might just be the best-looking movie ever made. (You could say the same for The Conformist which I'm even more excited to see.) Delphine Seyrig is so drop-dead gorgeous in that movie it kills me.

[JL21]

Oh yeah there was plenty of stuff I hadn't caught earlier but I can't remember anything specific offhand. That might just be the best-looking movie ever made. (You could say the same for The Conformist which I'm even more excited to see.) Delphine Seyrig is so drop-dead gorgeous in that movie it kills me.

When I think of "The Conformist", I picture Bertolucci sitting in an editing room with his movie running on one screen, and a wall of Godard movies running on 4 or 5 other screens, and him jerkin' it to the Godard films.*



*not an insult because I think he did a ton of stuff better than Godard in that movie

[The Third Man]

You could truncate that to "I picture Bertolucci jerkin' it," and it'd still be accurate, the man loves to show his characters doin' the nasty.

I never made that connection though, I've only seen a few Godards and only once each.

[JL21]

Mostly it's the jarring use of color, but also the noir elements, the non-traditional filming with chase scenes going in the wrong directions... stuff like that.

[thrill]

Ebert twittered this: http://www.europafilmtreasures.eu/
Watch tons of European movies legally.

[heyzeus]

Has anyone seen the latest Coen Brothers movie, A Serious Man? Given the pants-creaming that the Coens usually elicit here (myself included), I'm surprised it hasn't been discussed.

[omaha_red]

Has anyone seen the latest Coen Brothers movie, A Serious Man? Given the pants-creaming that the Coens usually elicit here (myself included), I'm surprised it hasn't been discussed.

is it out yet? i know it opens at the theater by my house in a few weeks and
i have free passes so i'll be going..

[G. Keenan]

Has anyone seen the latest Coen Brothers movie, A Serious Man? Given the pants-creaming that the Coens usually elicit here (myself included), I'm surprised it hasn't been discussed.

Ahem...

The new Coen brothers, A Serious Man, is outstanding.

I think it's incredibly good. In a way the film kind of sneaks up on you and only when it's all over do you see what it's been doing the whole time. And the final shot is totally badass.