My own private Cannes
Since it’s too hot to go out and there’s nothing showing in movie theatres that I care to watch, I’m having my own Spring Equinox Film Festival at home this weekend. This is the selection.
Opening film: Band of Outsiders by Jean-Luc Godard
Le Samourai by Jean-Pierre Melville
Love and Death by Woody Allen
Viridiana by Luis Buñuel
Duck Soup, The Marx Brothers (Preview of our Marx Brothers film festival on Holy Week. Special guest feature: Monty Python’s Life of Brian.)
Pepe Le Moko by Julien Duvivier
Les Amants by Louis Malle
Closing film: Videodrome by David Cronenberg
The selection is based on what I found at our local DVD dealers’ last Friday. By the way if you see La Ronde and The Earrings of Madame de… by Max Ophuls, and A Matter Of Life and Death by Powell and Pressburger, give me a holler.
So I’m watching Bande a part, and I never understood Godard, but suddenly something clicks in my brain and I think I get it! It’s about people who think their life is a movie and regard real life as unreal. My people!
Answers to questions you might be asking, unless you wandered onto this site purely by accident >>>
March 26th, 2007 at 12:09
Here’s a holler. I did find A Matter Of Life And Death at a, let’s say, “freelance DVD distributor” at the BF Homes Ruins in Parañaque. I didn’t buy it, but I also saw The Life And Death in Colonel Blimp which I bought instead. Hope this helps.
April 1st, 2007 at 16:46
if you like the marx brothers and you have Global Destiny cable, Turner Classic Movies will be showing The Marx Brother’s “At the Circus” apr. 1 at 11:00pm.