Coens

[Paul Mackin]

Anna Karina in blond wig will be Katje my own production of
Gravity's Rainbow.

Have the distinct feeling the p-list is now going to talk
about la nouvelle vague and auteur theory. The late 50s and
early 60s when everyone stopped going to American movies and
saw  only "foreign films."

Memories.

            P.

Dave Monroe wrote:

> Do see Jean Luc-Godard's Une femme est une femme (A
> Woman is a Woman, 1961), his self-described
> "neorealist musical."  Talk about yr
> verfremmsdungseffekt ...
>
> But an excellent place to start with Godard, esp. for
> Americans, given our inculcation into the musical
> genre.  Makes obvious what he's up to early on, AND it
> stars both Anna Karina and Jean-Paul Belmondo
> (Jean-Claude Brialy, Nicole Paquin ... Michel Legrand
> sdtk. ...) ...
>
> --- Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net> wrote:
> > When I would see all these now famous movie musicals
> > as a child I would be disturbed by the unrealism of
> > song and dance numbers popping up right in the
> > middle of what seemed like ordinary life.
>
> And see also ...
>
> Altman, Rick.  The American Film Musical.
>    London/Bloomington: BFI/Indiana UP, 1987.
>
> http://www.indiana.edu/~iupress/books/0-253-20514-X.shtml
>
> All sorts of interesting things in the air here these
> past few days, I see ...
>
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