― Mil (Mil), Friday, 24 September 2004 10:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 24 September 2004 11:59 (nineteen years ago) link
you're right, jay - "day for night" is one of the more sentimental of truffaut's films. but i find his delight really contagious in general, and it spills out everywhere in "day for night". i like how that film isn't about any particular kind of movie... just movies in general, the good and the bad alike, and how there's something magical about the welles stills in the dream sequence and the absurd "pamela" movie - even if you know how all of the "magic" is manufactured. i don't really have any angle on the film that hasn't been written about to death, but it works for me. and i wouldn't even say it's in my top 3 truffaut films.
i also thought of:
ed woodthe man with the movie camera (though i suppose this falls into the experimental category)
― a spectator bird (a spectator bird), Friday, 24 September 2004 15:56 (nineteen years ago) link
"Traffic was a bitch."
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 24 September 2004 17:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― a spectator bird (a spectator bird), Friday, 24 September 2004 18:39 (nineteen years ago) link
I'll eat my hat on this one. You're absolutely right about the effectiveness of the "universal movie" being made, and the theft of the citizen kane posters is an absolutely beautiful scene that any filmmaker who was once a kid in love with the movies can identify with. i'll have to watch this film again, this time with subtitles!
― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Friday, 24 September 2004 18:47 (nineteen years ago) link
I loved 'Ed Wood'.
― derrick (derrick), Monday, 27 September 2004 00:11 (nineteen years ago) link
Jerry Lewis' "The Patsy"
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 27 September 2004 15:11 (nineteen years ago) link
"The Last Tycoon' is an interesting failure.
My favourite film about filmaking is "Irma Vep"....
― David N (David N.), Monday, 27 September 2004 23:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― Girolamo Savonarola, Monday, 27 September 2004 23:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― PVC (peeveecee), Thursday, 30 September 2004 20:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― evil bill (evil bill), Saturday, 2 October 2004 12:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― Wooden (Wooden), Saturday, 2 October 2004 13:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― naturemorte, Friday, 8 October 2004 05:27 (nineteen years ago) link
and CQ was not a mess. It had a charmingly loose structure.
― PVC (peeveecee), Friday, 8 October 2004 10:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― lukey (Lukey G), Monday, 22 November 2004 09:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Monday, 22 November 2004 12:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― Joshua Houk (chascarrillo), Friday, 26 November 2004 07:29 (nineteen years ago) link
Also: Albert Brooks- Real Life
― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 29 November 2004 03:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 29 November 2004 03:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 18:38 (nineteen years ago) link
There is some good stuff about looping in Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown.
― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 19:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― Mitchell Saulsberry (divineintoxicant), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 05:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Mitchell Saulsberry (divineintoxicant), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 05:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― andrew s (andrew s), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 07:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 12:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― Mitchell Saulsberry (divineintoxicant), Tuesday, 21 December 2004 23:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 00:04 (nineteen years ago) link
restored Canadian Crime Wave (1985) by John Paizs, praised above, restored and showing at NYC MoMA tom'w night
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Monday, 9 November 2015 16:28 (eight years ago) link