tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3296479421292377391.post2754406039078394099..comments2024-03-15T04:08:16.172-04:00Comments on Only the Cinema: La guerre est finieEd Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18014222247676090467noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3296479421292377391.post-5576075920843246482013-11-06T20:38:58.614-05:002013-11-06T20:38:58.614-05:00I'm pretty keen to see this. Does anyone know ...I'm pretty keen to see this. Does anyone know where it might be online? ThanksRaymondhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15628393480153139791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3296479421292377391.post-16958442353034810242011-04-12T06:36:03.142-04:002011-04-12T06:36:03.142-04:00Just watched DLN againn after many years. Nicholas...Just watched DLN againn after many years. Nicholas Roeg is a brilliant director.. Those were the days when directors told the story w/o all the special effects trimmings and fat. You can always tell a good director if the acting is at a high level throughout and every actor. This is a great director. Donald Souther,and always does his job well. I wonder if Fellini saw him in this film and cast Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3296479421292377391.post-89246115203771045312011-03-31T13:19:23.352-04:002011-03-31T13:19:23.352-04:00Here's the Pas Sur la Bouche trailer
As you c...<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OpXLauXr98" rel="nofollow">Here's the <i>Pas Sur la Bouche</i> trailer</a><br /><br />As you can see it stars his late period rep company (Sabine Azema, Pierre Arditi, Lambert Wilson)and is a full-press musical. <br /><br />As Resnais gets older his films get younger.DavidEhrensteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11016905507543736049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3296479421292377391.post-1634124802592645842011-03-31T08:51:31.129-04:002011-03-31T08:51:31.129-04:00Sam, agreed about the wonderful score, I can alway...Sam, agreed about the wonderful score, I can always count on you to bring up the music when I forget. As I've mentioned, this isn't my favorite Resnais but it's still quite good.<br /><br />Jean, I should say that I too find Resnais' 60s films very moving, but I'm not sure how much of that is intrinsic to the narratives. The dialogue - and, you're right, the performances -Ed Howardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18014222247676090467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3296479421292377391.post-6492500874603434272011-03-30T19:38:28.132-04:002011-03-30T19:38:28.132-04:00Resnains' relationship to his screenwriters is...Resnains' relationship to his screenwriters is quite complex. He approached Duras, Robbe-Grillet, Sternberg and Cayrol to work with him, based on his admiration for their novels. (Jacques Sternberg is a marvelous French science-fiction wirter virtually unknown in the U.S.)<br /><br />Jean Grualt was an established screenwriter who he wantewd to work with, and the results, in <i>Mon Oncle d&#DavidEhrensteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11016905507543736049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3296479421292377391.post-149368089746378762011-03-30T18:10:21.667-04:002011-03-30T18:10:21.667-04:00Or should I say - overstated.Or should I say - overstated.JeanRZEJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04530242176130470336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3296479421292377391.post-50430473053048736772011-03-30T18:09:54.665-04:002011-03-30T18:09:54.665-04:00It's interesting that you say he chooses '...It's interesting that you say he chooses 'bland and affectless' scenarios. It seems to me like his narratives are always moving during this period, but they simply happen to curl back in on themselves. As such, both the narratives and the editing repeat themselves (and perhaps most evident in Je t'aime, je t'aime), but I think the affectless feeling may be heightened by the JeanRZEJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04530242176130470336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3296479421292377391.post-46204597951057925652011-03-30T17:35:19.945-04:002011-03-30T17:35:19.945-04:00"There is also the reality of Franco's Sp..."There is also the reality of Franco's Spain as it is as opposed to the dream maintained by the revolutionaries, a dream of what Spain once was before Franco, and what it might be again if they are successful in their plans. In their own ways, revolution and resistance are also ways of denying reality, proposing and projecting a new reality to take the place of the current one."<br Sam Julianonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3296479421292377391.post-24265267313709992862011-03-30T15:48:00.026-04:002011-03-30T15:48:00.026-04:00Jean, that's a good subject. Resnais is defini...Jean, that's a good subject. Resnais is definitely an interesting auteur in that his films were so often explicitly collaborations with his screenwriters, more so than with a lot of other directors who don't write their own films. I think, after watching <i>Je t'aime, je t'aime</i> recently (and more on this eventually, I couldn't be more excited about a film) I've Ed Howardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18014222247676090467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3296479421292377391.post-84118459547509590062011-03-30T15:19:39.140-04:002011-03-30T15:19:39.140-04:00Do you have any thoughts about Resnais and his rel...Do you have any thoughts about Resnais and his relationship to his screenwriters? He has a rather peculiar place in that he often downplays his own contributions to his works because he always uses others's works, in several cases fantastic constructs which few (probably not including himself) could muster, and in this case in particular the story of a Spanish exile written by a Spanish exileJeanRZEJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04530242176130470336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3296479421292377391.post-8414820732320512882011-03-30T09:20:48.690-04:002011-03-30T09:20:48.690-04:00Interesting, David. It's definitely a comparat...Interesting, David. It's definitely a comparatively straightforward film when weighed against the other work Resnais was doing in the 60s, so I can see how Resnais would have thought of it as a more commercial movie, with its nods to the political thriller genre and its big star and its direct style. It's probably the one non-masterpiece in an otherwise uninterrupted string of Ed Howardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18014222247676090467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3296479421292377391.post-68554356093107014402011-03-30T09:07:22.694-04:002011-03-30T09:07:22.694-04:00This was Resnais' "comeback" movie a...This was Resnais' "comeback" movie after the massive criticial and commercial failure of his masterpiece, <i>Muriel</i>. A huige critical and commercial hit it's a smooth vehicle for Yves Montand's star power. You're quite right about Spemprun's script touching on issues that would become key to the radical left as the 60's gave way to the 70's. But I'm DavidEhrensteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11016905507543736049noreply@blogger.com