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Breathless, Reinvented: A revie ...
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"I have always appreciated the idea of the New Year. That one moment, when admidst all of life's turmoil, we turn our attentions to the year ahead, decide on ways we can improve ourselves, and bid farewell to all of the joys and miseries of the past year. And of course I know all too well the awkward feeling of ringing in a new year alone in love. Be it the evils of societal pressure, or a simple reminder that I am again alone on the birth of a new year, I always crave partnership when I am in this situation. This may be just one reason why indie director Alex Holdridge's In Search of a Midnight Kiss (2007) struck such a chord with me. As a film, I see it as the remake of Godard's Breathless (1960) that Jim McBride failed to make with his Breathless (1983). Both this and the McBride film are set in Los Angeles, but where McBride went wrong, in trying to transfer a story that only made sense in 1959 Paris to 1983 LA, Holdridge completely avoided, creating an entirely new story t ... "
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"Criterion, who had already shown the Wes Anderson love with their Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums and The Life Aquatic discs, announced back in 2007 that they were going to be putting out an edition of Bottle Rocket. This was met with much joy, especially because the previously released version, which came out back in 1996, was about as bare bones as you could get. The only real special feature it could claim was widescreen on one side of the disc, and full screen on the other. Big whoop. The new version, which just came out in late 2008 has a ton of features, and is available in both standard and Blu-ray editions. But it also contains one of the single most sour notes ever hit in an Anderson DVD. It’s so extremely p "
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"Product placement in movies is now so overdone that we may not even notice it unless a particular film or TV show really hits us over the head with a blatant in-your-face product shot. Otherwise, seeing commercial goods everywhere merely seems like everyday life in capitalist America. Just look at any of the websites that tally up products spotlighted in mainstream movies and you’ll probably be surprised (though not shocked) at how many brands appear in each new release. Did you notice that Blades of Glory contains 38 separate products? Probably not. Many of those products couldn’t have gotten their money’s worth, because the movie doesn’t allow the audience to walk away recalling any one particular item. At a time when TV’s Top Chef and 30 Rock show us how lame blatantly whorish and ironic product placement can get, and while moviegoers are being subjected to more subliminal, suggestive and unintentional advertisements (Speed Racer, Wall-E and
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"It’s no secret that we’re big fans of Barry Jenkins’ film Medicine for Melancholy, and we’re lucky enough to have Barry be big fans of Spout as well. His little film has had a long journey since it premiered in Austin at SXSW earlier this year, and it’s continuing to take him around the world. We spoke with Barry in Toronto about the genesis of the movie, what has happened since that first screening in Austin, how he found the actors, and if this film represents a love letter from him to the city of San Francisco. Read on for the full interview. Well, the first thing I was going to say was thank you for all the shout outs you always give Spout and Karina whenever you discuss the movie. That question about the de-saturation in the film a "
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"Since January 1st, 2008, I've been keeping track of all the films I've watched. Because I don't feel like taking the time to highlight each movie up until this point, I will start at the previous week, Week 29 and continue from now on. 328. The Dark Knight (2008) -My second time seeing it. Such a great movie. Although not good enough to be considered 'best film of all time'. 329. Teeth (2007) -The storyline attracted me to it. Within the first 20 minutes I wanted it to be done. I hated this thing so much. 330. Heima (2007) -Such a beautiful documentary for such an amazing band; Sigur Ros. Check them out if you haven't yet. 331. La Haine / Hate (1995) -One of the best French films I've seen. If there's one thing I'll remember about this movie years from now, it'll be the ending and how shocked I was after it was all said and done. 332. À ma soeur! / Fat Girl (2001) -There was something sad in the "
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"A special round-up this afternoon, featuring bloggy memories of Manny Farber: “What I found, and find, most valuable in his criticism is his ability to apprehend the entirety of a film—he got it from every angle,” writes Glenn Kenny. “I doubt that Farber was particularly surprised by Godard’s Breathless, because his criticism actively anticipated that film.” “To prove my size, and yours, here’s some of his enormity.” Ryland Walker Knight offers images of two of Farber’s paintings. “He remains our best,” says Ray Pride. “A curmudgeon, but a painstaking one who concedes that his effects are like the layering and smearing and reworking of layers of paint, that he is ‘unable to write anything at all without extraordinary amounts of rewriting.’” Originally posted on:SpoutBlog » Karina Longworth "
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"A special round-up this afternoon, featuring bloggy memories of Manny Farber: “What I found, and find, most valuable in his criticism is his ability to apprehend the entirety of a film—he got it from every angle,” writes Glenn Kenny. “I doubt that Farber was particularly surprised by Godard’s Breathless, because his criticism actively anticipated that film.” “To prove my size, and yours, here’s some of his enormity.” Ryland Walker Knight offers images of two of Farber’s paintings. “He remains our best,” says Ray Pride. “A curmudgeon, but a painstaking one who concedes that his effects are like the layering and smearing and reworking of layers of paint, that he is ‘unable to write anything at all without extraordinary amounts of rewriting.’” Originally posted on:SpoutBlog "
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"No. 11 - A Bout De Souffle (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960)Ranked - #29'There's no need to lie. It's like poker. The truth is best. The others still think you're bluffing, so you win' - (Michel Poiccard)Somehow I managed to miss this film during my ill-fated Film Studies A-level that I failed spectacularly some 15 years back. I just wasn't ready for this film then, my idea of great cinema happened to be whatever was on the local cinema that week. I fidgeted in class, flicked ink balls at my mate and generally ignored the whole thing. The odd thing though was that the next week we were shown 'The 400 Blows' and I was enrapture "
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Breathless, Recycled.
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"It may seem redundant, or even ironic, that an American filmmaker trying to jump-start his career in Hollywood would wish to remake a French film that already refers so heavily to Hollywood cinema. Yet this did not stop Jim McBride from remaking Jean-Luc Godard's classic 1959 film, A bout de souffle. Godard's first film is definitive of the French New Wave movement of the late 1950s and early 1960s that is said to have revolutionized cinema not just in France, but world-wide. Not only that, but his film is one of "
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"If you ever felt love punch you in the gut you understand Breathless. Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless is as timeless as Romeo and Juliet, as charming as the Beatles, as fresh as Avant-Garde, as hip as Bohemian Pairs, and as smart as science. Crime accentuates this love story as Michel, a highway killer with unknown motivation, enters the world of adorable Patricia. Michel cannot live without Patricia while Patricia fluctuates between the desire for love and the desire for independence. The two exchange plenty of nonsensical flirtatious banter as Michel coerces Patricia to sleep with him again. Can you have love without this eroticism? Godard gives a philosophy of love with essay like precision in an interview that Patricia attends. Eroticism is a form of love and love is a form of eroticism. The two are inseparable. Michel craves the erotic element from Patricia because of love. He says the he has slept with two girls since her, both were a disappointment.
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