Rec.

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Heikki:

I agree.  Resnais is _never_ cheap.  Off the list. I hated Last Year
anyway. Down this corridor, down that corridor.  Now she's here, now she
isn't.  One pov to another pov. The minutes drone on and on.  Geeze....Did
anyone really like it, I mean deep down?  Why didn't they make
Robbe-Grillet's Jealousy. Now that may have been watchable, which is, I
admit, as Ezra Pound might say, "a vurry
Ah-muricahn attitude."

But you can count on me to defend Bergman and Cocteau to all comers.
Ingmar's flirtations with opera also meld nicely with Mr. P's obsessions.
And while
we're on the non-germanic europeans...how did we forget about the master
himself, Louis Bunel? Viridiana, Illusion Travels by Street Car, and The
Exterminating Angel, not to mention Un Chien Andalou and Belle de Jour, all
seem to be in the right ballpark. Then there's Wadja's Kanal (the
Underground in the sewers), Polanski's Cul de Sac, Knife in the Water, and
Repulsion, and a movie that I saw once, Polish I believe, which reminded me
very much of Pynchon, called Closely Watched Trains.  Ever seen that one?

Very funny story about TRP sipping tea in Santa Barbara...did he order any
english candies, if you know?

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