hiroshima mon amour: c/d?

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gorgeous treatment of the aftershocks of the atomic bomb dropping and the fragmentation of individual and collective history and memory, or pretentious overly-literary rubbish? MAKE THE CALL, ILF

― joseph (joseph), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 04:56 (twenty-one years ago)

my favorite film of all time.

― t0dd swiss, Wednesday, 16 February 2005 07:04 (twenty-one years ago)

i think it's brilliant & it's one of the boldest formal experiments in narrative cinema--definite classic.

― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 13:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Ha! It's both at the same time, or perhaps one or the other, from viewing to viewing. I believe Richard Roud said the same thing in his Resnais book.

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 13:52 (twenty-one years ago)

You're right that it could be seen as "overly-literary" (though not as much as the Robbes-Grillet scripted "Last Year at Marienbad"), but I think its formal achievements serve better to create a new filmic language than textual. I don't see anything wrong by a filmmaker being inspired by another medium if they're translating it to their medium (i.e.--Godard's translation of political/philosophical texts into filmic terms (even the intertitles are uniquely cinematic elements because of their place within the montage), Brakhage's "visualization" of the poety of Pound, Stein, Dante, etc.).

What does bother me is the direct adaptation of books, or even worse, (because there's already a visual corrollary) theater, to film.

― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 15:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I guess I kind of struggle with the idea of "modernizations" as well, whether it be updating old literature to modern-day film (i.e. "Romeo + Juliet") or even extreme remakes of existing films (new "Manchurian Candidate", etc.)

But at the same time, I watched "Ali: Fear Eat Soul" again last night for the third time last night & still loved it, even though it's a remake of "All That Heaven Allows". I guess if it's a complete rethinking, I don't mind as much.

BTW--has anyone watched the interview with Todd Haynes on the "Ali" Criterion set? It's really good--intelligent & enlightening, with none of the usual film-scholar or hip filmmaker pretentions.

― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Thursday, 17 February 2005 18:19 (twenty-one years ago)

one of my favorites

― ryan (ryan), Friday, 18 February 2005 22:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Ryan, do you mean "Hiroshima" or "Ali: Fear Eat Soul"?

― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Saturday, 19 February 2005 00:14 (twenty-one years ago)

oh both really!

― ryan (ryan), Saturday, 19 February 2005 00:27 (twenty-one years ago)

totally brilliant. i would like to buy this dvd.

hi everyone, i'm back. been awhile. well over a year, actually... been running around the world and trying to get my life in order...

― j fail (cenotaph), Thursday, 24 February 2005 22:50 (twenty-one years ago)

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