What happens when you lose track of movies as stories, as self-contained constructed objects, and start thinking of them as ghostly records of dead people moving through lost locations in a piece of time that you can never recover? What do you say to that, Mrs. Jean-Paul?
what it means is, it’s time for you to take your meds.
simon and i saw Le Circle Rouge tonight. we found it in the criterion collection version at the south miami public library branch! they have the most amazing things. there we also found the BBC six-part series of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (am i getting it right? too late to check, sorry), with alec guiness playing smiley.
i know what you mean about extra features. if we had watched them all after finishing the movie, we would have stayed up till morning! but i’m DEFINITELY looking forward to watching it all tomorrow!
anyway, it’s a really cool movie. the heist made me more anxious than tom cruise’s breaking into whatever it was he broke into in Mission Impossible. too bad about alain delon’s mustache. absolutely ridiculous
michael, have you been watching “goodbye dragon inn”?
I thought Le Cercle was great, too. For another time, another thread: great heist movies. (One of my favorites is not, I think, available in the states on dvd–it’s French-Canadian, and was called there Pouvoir Intime; the twist is that the crooks steal a whole armored car, but unwittingly a ride-along guard in the back, too, so the whole movie is less about the heist than about how to get that guy out of the back without destroying the money and before the cops find us. Good stuff.)
My creepy thoughts are different than yours, Michael. That, too, is another thread.
Frisoli’s late night thoughts are precisely the plot of ‘They Came Back’ which I watched thanks to Jeff’s recommendation. It is really worth watching for all sorts of reasons, but mainly just to see zombies portrayed as real people, and to imagine what we would do — as individuals and collectively through the government — if the dead suddenly reappeared and we had to house them, feed them, finds jobs for them, and decide whether to fall in love in love with them again after mourning their deaths.
What if the zombies were katharine hepburn, cary grant, veronica lake, william powell and the like?
gio–now you need to see all the movies by Jean-Pierre Melville–my favorite is Le Samourai with Alain Delon (who doesn’t have a mustache there I think). Army of Shadows about the Resistance, played out like a gangster film is also very good. the most stylized is Un Flic (a cop) where there’s a long wordless heist and lots of sexy standing around by Catharine Deneuve. as for meds, well they do only so much, the bastards!
I do not know either Goodbye Dragon Inn or They Came Back but they’re both on my list now. falling in love with zombies, eh? reminds me of a time when….
as for Mike’s creepy thoughts…the mind boggles….
I really like Goodbye Dragon Inn and I’m pleased ARNAB’s seen it.
though if you’d memorized my posts the way you should you’d remember that i thought it was incredibly tedious.