In other film news, I saw Dark Knight (the new Batman film) in IMAX last night, and was depressed afterwards. Not because the movie's so dark and melancholic, but because I couldn't follow the plot, which left me feeling dumb. I'd heard that this is a fantastically great piece of filmmaking, but I couldn't get past my inability to understand what was going on.
But I felt infinitely better after reading David Edelstein's review in NY Magazine, describing the film as "noisy, jumbled, and sadistic," and "spectacularly incoherent." Ah, good. So it's not just me!
And Edelstein liked the same director's previous film in the series, "Batman Begins" (which I understood pretty good, but didn't like at all).
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I'll be curious about your reaction to Godard. I haven't seen the majority of his work, but everything I have seen, including his most famous movies, have totally left me cold. Actually, "cold" describes Godard well to me. With the possible exception of Antonioni,another "cold" director, none of the "major" directors turns me off as much as Godard.
Interesting. Thanks for posting that. I'll be sure to report back my impressions. "Coldness" alone isn't a deal-breaker for me, but I'd imagine it would be especially off-putting in a situation like this, where I'm diving into a multiple film retrospective!
I would suggest two of his best:
Breathless and Pierrot La Fou. He was a modernist but with a thorough knowledge of cinema tradition, especially classic American and "B." "Hip" people would line up to see his films but disdain the movies that were his inspiration.
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