Like always, rushing to get things done before leaving town. Somehow there's always frustratingly more I want to do than time left to do it in. More movies I'd hoped to watch before leaving. More books I'd hoped to read. There's a hole in my head I was hoping to fill!

I did watch Letter From an Unknown Woman last night - which was probably the most effective, affecting melodrama I've ever seen (better (in a way) than the Sirk's, I think). The night before it was the Rivette - which I've been dying to see for a few years - so happy it finally came out on DVD and I got the chance (been on a Rivette kick since being overwhelmed by the weirdness of Celine and Julie go Boating when I was in London earlier this year). I'm hoping to get in one more film in tonight, perhaps Sunrise, another one from Schrader's film canon I've yet to see.

Anyhow, I'll be back in two weeks. 10:29 AM >>> 2 comments

2 Comments:

hey jeff! paris nous appartient is kind of long, isn't it? yet, it is an interesting film as a bridge from the earlier 50s eclectic french cinema to the new wave stuff--isn't this film the film that the family go see in 400 Coup?

lettter from an unknown woman is my FAVE melodrama--there is a good, contemporary chinese version of it. sirk and ophuls are differnt animals--great in their own ways.

By  Bonjour Tristesse, at 1:33 PM  

Oh yeah - it's long, but not as LONG as the average Rivette (just 141 min. compared to 190 min. for Celine and Julie or 773 min. for Out 1!).

By  Jeff LeVine, at 8:40 PM  

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