
Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly, Singin' in the Rain, 1952
Is it too soon to nominate it as Best Film of the Year - or Best Film of All Time? Happy New Year to all.
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Nice. Two old faves of mine. Haven't seen either in over 20 years.Piano Mouth wrote:Hiroshima, Mon Amour ( Dir Alain Resnais)
A love story set in Hiroshima right after the bombings. Two married couples tangled in a love affair. The woman wants him to be a write off in her black book, but the man keeps on going after her, even when she tells him no it's over, and to stop bothering her. She is like a helpless flower, amongst the Japanese, where she is constantly harassed in her acclimations into Japanese society. Though that's not what she wants in the end, and a very relevant back story about her first love is shown through backflashes and there is a lot of grotesque imagery of deformed people in the first act of the film due to the bombings. The pursuit of the man, his continuous pursuit is rather parallel to another movie I saw on FilmStruck this Holiday Season:
Last Tango in Paris
Marlon Brando is everything people say he is. He is just great. I remember I would listen to David Bowie and R.E.M. mention him in their songs, and be like I'm' a little too young to know who he was besides the Godfather which I didn't really like upon first viewing, but that's who he is basically for my generation I think. There are some weird parallels to Last Tango and Hiroshima Mon Amour that are quite interesting to me. R.E.M. mentions Brando at least twice, once in a song called "Me and Marlon Brando, Marlon Brando and Me."
Wow, care to go into detail there (not that I'm likely to want to see it in a hurry)? Seems like it really rubbed you up the wrong way! Try this instead Mark, it's brilliant:Piano Mouth wrote:Fences had to be the biggest piece of shit I've ever seen in my entire life. I don't even want to go into it right now. Worst movie of the year. So shitty.