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all_unnecessary

En mai fais ce qu'il te plaît!

Sep 20, 2009 16:25

Charles mort ou vif was one of the first films about soixante-huit I ever encountered, and it's still my favorite (with Les amants réguliers a distant second). How to get [un-non]plussed, it'd be called if it were a self-help book. The head of a Swiss watch factory throws it all over:
Under an assumed name he sets off on his own. But before long he ( Read more... )

recursion, ah youth, yes

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Bakounine! grashupfer September 21 2009, 00:43:19 UTC

That's really cool. Thanks so much for this. How hard is it to find the entire film on VHS? Is it rare?

Re: Bakounine! all_unnecessary September 21 2009, 00:45:07 UTC

Actually quite easy, and the used copies are cheap:

http://www.amazon.com/Charles-Dead-Alive-François-Simon/dp/1567301673

mrwaggish September 21 2009, 18:58:11 UTC

I would really like to see this. My favorite post-68 film is The Mother and the Whore. I don't know if it's the best, but I'm certain I know the worst: The Dreamers. (Garrel hated it too.)

all_unnecessary September 28 2009, 17:38:27 UTC

I was so disappointed by The Dreamers! I don't know why I expected this at all, but I so wanted a 90210 version of 68-and they stayed in the apt the whole time. I have not seen the Mother and the Whore - now it seems I must!

What if Alan Ball did a film on 68. Or Joss Whedon. I'd watch that!

mrwaggish October 4 2009, 00:14:45 UTC

Just saw Eustache's other film, Mes Petites Amoureuses...very jaded film about childhood (as opposed to M/W, which is a very jaded film about 68).

My biggest problem with the Dreamers was that for all the self-congratulatory "transgressiveness," there was no gay content whatsoever. Incest with the boy's hot sister, sure, but don't get him wrong, he's straight! That was apparently Bertolucci's demand: "The gay sex was in the first script, but I had a feeling that it was just too much stuff. It became redundant. I told Gilbert: 'Please don't feel betrayed, but when a book becomes a movie it becomes a whole new conception.'"

Grumble grumble. I bet Alan Ball would have left the gay sex in!

Speaking of Joss, Nina and I thought that the first new Dollhouse ep came dangerously close to Faith/Apollo slash. No? I credit Joss with being the first tv writer to really absorb fandom and fan tropes into a show itself...I'm not aware of any earlier examples.