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Breathless
Breathless
Breathless, Recycled.
By tmclancy in le cinéphile sporadique
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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 the pioneers of the movement. McBride's 1983 remake, entitled Breathless, is also definitive of the cinematic culture from which it came: that of 1980s Hollywood. However, it is certainly nothing remotely close to a pioneer. Though it was not actually backed by a major Hollywood studio, Breathless contains formulaic 1980s Hollywood characteristics such as lighting that flatters and glorifies the actors; steady camera movements and conventional cinematography; polish ... " [More]
The Royal Tenenbaums
The Royal Tenenbaums
The Royal Tenenbaums and the Am ...
By tmclancy in le cinéphile sporadique
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 "Within the past decade of mainstream American cinema, very few directors have developed a style as distinctive and recognizable as Houston, Texas raised Wes Anderson. Anderson began his filmmaking career in the early 1990s, after graduating from the University of Texas where he studied philosophy. His first two films, Bottle Rocket (1996) and Rushmore (1998) feature a setting similar to that of his childhood: upper-middle class Texas. However with his third film, The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), Anderson seems to break free from his origins, as if his unique style is able to stand on its own, and inhabit any setting. On a referential level, the film is simple. The backstory, which Anderson meticulously builds up in the first seven minutes of the film, is that Royal Tenenbaum, a prominent lawyer, buys a mansion on Archer Avenue in New York City in the late 1960s where he and his wife, Etheline, have three children before they separate a decade later. After Royal leaves, Etheline, a stau ... " [More]

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