was watching the criterion collection 2nd DVD with interviews on the film the other night, and although aznavor will always be the star of “shoot the piano player” …boby lepointe will always be my man. love the song, the words, the look. unfortunately, the actual version of the song framboise is not as cool as the version recorded in the film by the m. aznavor rhythm section. by dd
anna karina in her palmolive advert days
the revamped anna karina under JLG’s spell
not sure what style.com is exactly talking about when they refer to anna karina not being “as well known”. that’s like saying, who is roland barthes? (if you are asking that very question then you are on the wrong blog). what style.com failed to mention after stating that godard had received an honorary oscar in november 2010, is that he declined to accept it. what i didn’t know however, and i’m happy to know from style.com is that coco chanel had a thing or two to do about her discovery. however even coco, the queen of fashion, couldn’t save anna from palmolive… that credit goes solely to god… ard!!
my favorite films with anna are: band of outsiders, une femme est une femme, masculin féminin and pierrot le fou… all worth the trouble. by dd
bernardo bertolucci’s “the conformist” is on screen at film forum. besides the story and everything that makes this movie on top of every list, it’s worth seeing just to realize how it was and still is one of the greatest references for people defining today’s visual surroundings. it has inspired everyone from david lynch to steven meisel, who totally plundered every single shot of the movie. a must see! btwn us, if you’re in nyc, such a movie is better on screen by pp
i can’t watch this without laughing my head off. this is probably brody’s best dig considering how conceited and full of himself he is. it’s great to see him play the role of a queens’ born, italian, gay, phony punk with a fake british accent. well done. by xy
and a good film… and a good poster. (claude lelouch – a man and a woman). by dd
NZZ (swiss-german newspaper) on sunday nov 14 2010:
monsieur godard, next saturday, the academy of motion picture arts & sciences will award you an honorary oscar for lifetime achievement. what does this mean to you?
JLG (jean-luc godard): nothing. if the academy likes to do it, let them do it. but i think it’s strange. i asked myself: Which of my films have they seen? do they actually know my films? the award is called the governor’s award. does this mean that schwarzenegger gives me the award?
NZZ: where do you see yourself in the history of cinema?
JLG: next door.
– interviewed by christian jungen for NZZ by cdc
i’m even more impressed now. by dd
seeing “the trial” post below got me all sentimental about the man. he was really a wonderfully talented man. my favorite film, or i must say “piece” remains “f is for fake”. an amazing piece of art/film by welles. how we miss him. by dd
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quail eggs anyone?
a troubled monica vitti with british actor richard harris who walked out on antonioni after asking antonioni “why am i walking across the field?” to which antonioni replied “you’re an actor, you don’t question me, you do what i tell you to do”
entire streets, grass fields and buildings were painted to achieve the color
talking about deserts…. this is what you can call a great film, i saw it again tonight for the 4th, or 5th time, and it was as if i was seeing things for the first time. granted i’m rather forgetful, but that’s another story. the color and composition in this film are rather extraordinary, antonioni is the painter rather than the director in this film. so much pain was taken at the time in 1964 to create the color palette that antonioni was after on this technicolor film, including painting entire stone streets brown, buildings black, trees white, leaves brown, trash gray, earth red not to mention the “gray” fruit… it’s truly a beautiful film, and worth seeing it with no sound just purely as a visual feast, a rothko painting of sorts.
the criterion collection which is only $31.96 (on sale now) includes;
audio commentary by italian film scholar david forgacs (this is quite nice), archival video interviews with michelangelo antonioni and monica vitti and a booklet featuring an essay by film historian mark le fanu, an interview with antonioni by jean-luc godard, and a reprinted essay by antonioni on his use of color plus the usual other crap on such discs. with many thanx to cdc. by dd
a better film than pulp fiction, a better script than my own private idaho. where is gregg araki? by dd
this is a beautiful image, too bad its so choreographed with the newspapers so perfectly “scattered” but its a cool idea for a very cool woman.by dd
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