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Post by tannis on Apr 23, 2008 8:37:27 GMT
Thank you, Paddy and Rosa...
I have only seen about four Truffaut films. The one I remember most is La Peau douce (The Soft Skin; 1964), a moving and melancholic study of adultery and deceit. It reminds me of The Pumpkin Eater (1964), another extraordinary film.
Trailer: La Peau douce (François Truffaut, 1964)www.youtube.com/watch?v=58s0YWNvtaw
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Post by Barry SR Gowing on Apr 23, 2008 9:08:13 GMT
Thank you, Paddy and Rosa...
I have only seen about four Truffaut films. The one I remember most is La Peau douce (The Soft Skin; 1964), a moving and melancholic study of adultery and deceit. It reminds me of The Pumpkin Eater (1964), another extraordinary film.
Trailer: La Peau douce (François Truffaut, 1964)www.youtube.com/watch?v=58s0YWNvtaw Very interesting, tannis. I've seen a few Truffaut films, but not that one. He's a very interesting director indeed. I must track that film down. I wasn't aware of the Truffaut inspiration for The Wedding List either although it makes perfect sense now that I think about it. --Paul--
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Post by tannis on Apr 23, 2008 11:05:57 GMT
Yes, I didn't know about The Truffaut Connection either, until I researched gaffa... And indeed I could see a Jeanne Moreau character as being very compelling to Kate - Moreau's characterizations have always been so strong. And of course, Jeanne Moreau's character in Truffaut's Jules et Jim (1962) is called 'Catherine'... Trailer: Jules et Jim (François Truffaut, 1962)www.youtube.com/watch?v=sogZUKcU9tQ
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Post by paddy on Apr 26, 2008 2:03:48 GMT
[quote author=tannis board=neverforever thread=1696 post=29900 time=1208939847I have only seen about four Truffaut films. The one I remember most is La Peau douce (The Soft Skin; 1964), a moving and melancholic study of adultery and deceit. It reminds me of The Pumpkin Eater (1964), another extraordinary film.[/quote]
For me the greatest Truffaut film was Les Quatre Cent Coups (The Four Hundred Blows), a semi-autobiographical film about a young boy grappling with his identity. I was at university when I saw it (in 1976), and a friend who was a professor felt that it was his favorite film of all time - he would be completely emotionally shattered after seeing it. It was a magnificent work, simple, pure, and beuatiful.
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Post by tannis on Sept 19, 2008 18:54:09 GMT
Readers recommend: Songs about revenge
Any philosopher will tell you that revenge isn't sweet - it's ruinous. But how often do the wounded, jealous, downtrodden or plain infuriated find succour in philosophy, rather than in dreams and acts of vengeance? Writers are in a better position to retaliate against slings and arrows than the rest of us, by attacking their enemies in prose or song: it's bloodless, and earns cash to boot. In a study of revenge tragedy, the critic John Kerrigan even declared, "Vengeance is at the root of what many people now think they are doing when they write, or sing, or just strive for 'achievement'."
There has already been a playlist dedicated to hatchet jobs, songs that are themselves acts of revenge. This week's list is inspired more by Jacobean drama, those maniacal bloodfests in which injured characters brood, plot and finally throttle the law with their bare hands. Kate Bush, no stranger to theatricality, sets the stage thrillingly, depicting a woman who marries the man who killed her lover, so she can slaughter him on their wedding night. [An interesting, though incorrect interpretation.] ...
This week's playlist 1. The Wedding List Kate Bush 2. Buenas Tardes Amigo Ween 3. Hometown Farewell Kiss The Triffids 4. Retaliation Ice-T 5. Mental Revenge Waylon Jennings 6. Stitch in Time Maddy Prior 7. I'm Gonna Murder My Baby Pat Hare 8. Rocky Raccoon The Beatles 9. Nightmare The Whyte Boots 10. Survivor Destiny's Child
The Guardian, Friday September 19 2008 www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/sep/19/thebeatlesTHE WEDDING LISTAll of the headlines said "Passion Crime" ...Wedding List is about the powerful force of revenge, an unhealthy energy which in this song proves to be a "killer". Kate's KBC article, Issue 7 (Sept 1980), "Them Bats and Doves"gaffa.org/garden/kate8.htmlNext we talk about another track, The Wedding List, and its theme of revenge: "The futility..." The song sees Kate blasting a hole in the geezer who shot her husband-to-be as they get to the church. [In fact, he is shot just as the vows are being said.] She sees revenge as something that fills you up like green bile and as dangerous as a gun, but admits she's never been that screwed up by it, beyond the usual playground twist. KB: "Revenge is so powerful and futile in the situation in the song. Instead of just one person being killed, it's three: her husband, the guy who did it--who was right on top of the wedding list with the silver plates--and her, because when she's done it, there's nothing left [and a fourth: the unborn child]. All her ambition and purpose has all gone into that one guy. She's dead, there's nothing there."ZigZag, "Fire in the Bush" 1980(?)gaffa.org/reaching/i80_zz.html
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