La Dolce Vita<\/i> (dir. Federico Fellini). Plot-free.<\/p>\n
Plein Soleil (Purple Noon)<\/i> (dir. René Clément<\/a>), the first film version of The Talented Mr Ripley<\/i>, quite good. The French title means broad daylight<\/i>; I saw nothing that would explain purple<\/i>!<\/p>\n À bout de souffle (Breathless)<\/i> (dir. Jean-Luc Godard). One more Famous Groundbreaking Work of Art checked off.<\/p>\n The Apartment<\/i> (dir. Billy Wilder). Good fun.<\/p>\n The Little Shop of Horrors<\/i> (dir. Roger Corman). The amateurishness of it all is both amusing and frustrating. — In the first scene we hear Seymour offstage singing “Marble Halls<\/a>“, a song previously known to me only from Enya<\/a>‘s third album Shepherd Moons<\/i> (1991).<\/p>\n \u03a0\u03bf\u03c4\u03ad \u03a4\u03b7\u03bd \u039a\u03c5\u03c1\u03b9\u03b1\u03ba\u03ae Never on Sunday<\/i> (dir. Jules Dassin). Abandoned out of boredom after a few minutes. Remind me not to rent any more foreign movies about whores — or of which I know nothing but the theme tune.<\/p>\n The Magnificent Seven<\/i> (dir. John Sturges). Contains a line that had stuck in my mind for years, and sometimes bugged me that I could not recall its source: <\/p>\n It’s like this fellow I knew in El Paso. One day, he just took all his clothes off and jumped in a mess of cactus. I asked him that same question: why? — He said it seemed to be a good idea at the time. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n Tirez sur le pianiste (Shoot the Piano Player)<\/i> (dir. François Truffaut).<\/p>\n Tunes of Glory<\/i> (dir. Ronald Neame).<\/p>\n The Entertainer<\/i> (dir. Tony Richardson). Lawrence Olivier is splendid as a vaudevillian who cannot accept that he’s washed up. Alan Bates’s first movie; for twenty minutes I didn’t spot him, until some distinctive gesture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" La Dolce Vita (dir. Federico Fellini). Plot-free. Plein Soleil (Purple Noon) (dir. René Clément), the first film version of The Talented Mr Ripley, quite good. The French title means broad daylight; I saw nothing that would explain purple! À bout … Continue reading