Heh. I notice one movie judiciously left OFF that resume.
Only because I haven't seen it.
What are some of the French cliches in Amelie?
Well, the characters are pretty common stereotypes: the weepy concièrge, the mean grocer/baker, the failed writer/intellectual, the hypochondriac. And then there's the accordian music, Amélie's beret, lots of little details like that. It's like a postcard version of Paris. Which is intentional, there was a lot of digital removing of trash, modern cars, etc. And there are also a number of homages to movies of the 30s and the 60s (for example, the pigeons flying off reference Truffaut).
I have a bizarre love for this movie. Adjani doing comedy is hysterical.
You've never seen her in Possession [link] than?
Totally kidding, but that movie is SO far over the top it doesn't work as anything BUT comedy.
ION, I'm both happy and worried that Mother of Tears, Dario Argento's 3rd movie in the "Three Mothers" trilogy is getting some mainstream press (just saw it mentioned in both EW and the Boston Globe in their summer preview for movies).
Happy, because it may get wide release. Worried, because (a) it might suck compared to Suspiria and Inferno, and (b) because wide release may mean it gets cut for an R rating, which, from what I've heard, it most certainly will NOT get as is. Not that I'm jonesing for
watching someone get strangled with her own intestines
but I'd like to see the director's vision intact on the big screen and not have to wait for DVD.
Snork.
Netflix tells me that because I rented Dancing at the Blue Iguana, I will like Les Miserables.
I can, of course, see the correlation between them...uh, no?
Wasn't Foster's degree from Yale in French lit or soemthing like that?
Jodie went to a French immersion grade school and did major in something French at Yale, lit or linguistics, I don't remember.
Finished The Shining over the weekend. The American Indian theory is interesting, and the author that Strega links to could also have mentioned that Dick Halloran does not die in the novel -- though he and Wendy are both injured pretty seriously. On the other hand, Ullman does emphasize in the novel that the Overlook was intended as an upper-crust luxury resort -- not in the same language as in the movie, but pretty much the same idea.
Barry Lyndon is another very pretty movie. I read Thackeray's novel (which Barry narrates in first person POV) not long before seeing the movie, and I used that to fill in a lot of the backstory that wasn't clear on the screen.
I also saw Don't Knock the Rock and Don't Knock the Twist. Two worthy for any fans of pre-Beatles rock 'n' roll, though you might want to fast-forward through the plot development parts, especially of Twist.
Frodo Baggins a New Zealandbred thoroughbred who was in FOTR was destroyed following injuries sustained at the Rolex Three Day event. (His rider was seriously injuried.)
in today's imdb poll,
"Your favorite Humphrey Bogart/John Huston joint venture?"
I'm not familiar with any of these films
is winning. Poor uncinematically schooled peoples!
