Contempt - Godard's Cinemascope tale of a marriage falling apart. The best looking movie I've seen. Bardot is Bardot, Michel Piccoli plays the hipster I wish I was, and Jack Palance is "that American thinks he's a god." Listen to Silkworm's "Contempt" to get you in the mood.
Fanny and Alexander - caught the Bergman epic last week, and after a slow start was duly impressed. After investing 3 hours in the theatrical release, I'll wait until fall to get the 5 hour TV version. Swedes had it good when that guy was around.
Claire's Knee - One of Eric Rhomer's moral tales, this flick is about a middle aged dude's desire to touch the knee of one Claire, a stone fox teenager on holiday in what I think is lake Como. A little too much unnecessary dialogue, but there you have French film - introspective. People looked better in the 1970's everywhere.
All That Heaven Allows - watched this Douglas Sirk melodrama last night and it was damn good for the full 90 minutes. Richard Yates must have loved this flick since he cribbed a lot in his work. As the film version of Revolutionary Road will likely suck, get back to the burbs with this.
7 comments:
Who's that incredible piece of 70s ass that is now in the corner of this blog. HOT.
Charlotte Rampling. I endorse the photo gallery of this terrific website:
http://www.charlotterampling.net/
Surprising finds in this week's East Bay Express:
A man wants to build a huge skyscraper in downtown oakland.
Black Francis is coming to the Uptown in June; can't believe that venue is still open.
El Cerrito has what on paper looks like the best cafe in the world; tuna, we might find your receiver here:
http://33revolutions.com/
Peter Buck is a decent human being.
weird- I left a comment this morning from my home computer but it didn't show up
Peter Buck has always been a good guy- I remember him smashed on Bud Talls in small bar watching Soul Asylum in the mid-80's. He actually produced the Original Sin's Move record, which is a monster
Which EC cafe?
odd; i'll try to find out what happened to the comment. did you see it after you made it?
this EC cafe:
http://33revolutions.com/
Buck's pending divorce to the owner of the Crocodile cafe in seattle has left that venue shut down. i guess he was bankrolling that spot.
damn, I didn't know he was getting divorced- how sad- i went there once and had a pretty good time
buy this for me so i can open a trapppist-like haven:
http://humboldt.craigslist.org/rfs/698248787.html
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