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Movies I’m Watching: Les Amants (The Lovers)

July 27th, 2008 · No Comments

Les Amants (The Lovers) is another of the Louis Malle CC films I’ve picked up before the DVD shop got harmonized for the Olympics. They say this is the film that made Jeanne Moreau into a star. She had already been famous before this (1958), most notably as the youngest woman to ever become a [...]

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Movies I’m watching: Le Feu Follet and Naked

July 24th, 2008 · No Comments

I think it was a happy coincidence that I watched Mike Leigh’s Naked and Louis Malle’s Le Feu Follet (The Fire Within) in succession, on the same day. Both are character-driven movies about men who, on the surface, appear to live in the same world as us. Sure, they’re troubled—but only temporarily so.
Of course, [...]

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An interesting quote from Tristan Tzara

March 20th, 2008 · No Comments

Ever since stumbling across his grave at the Montparnasse cemetery, I have been not quite obsessed persistently inquisitive about the life and times of the Romanian-French poet Tristan Tzara, one of the founders of the Dadaist movement. I was just looking over his single entry in Wikipedia, and found this quote plastered on [...]

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Some pictures from Paris

March 18th, 2008 · No Comments

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