Wha. That’s one of the murals from the Mur murs documentary… so Varda did this at the same time as the documentary? Is it a fiction about doing a documentary about murals in Los Angeles? I hope so!
This is absolutely enthralling.
This is so meta. It’s the most 80s movie ever, and Varda captured it all at the start of the decade. They’re having this woman do the voice-over for a documentary they’ve made about murals in LA…
… and when they play it back, it’s Varda herself from the Mur murs movie. Tres post-modernique.
So this is a decade later than Varda's three previous California movies? Oh, this is a documentary about murals in Los Angeles? This is fantastic. It's got a free-flowing delightful kind of flow. And these murals are pretty amazing. I'm guessing that funding for this sort of thing dried up…
So in the 70s, PBS wanted Malle to do a documentary, and he semi-randomly landed at Glencoe, Minnesota. But there was no budget to edit it, so it languished until 1985. Nine churches, 5K people. Perhaps not the ideal stache for a town with 80% German-ancestry population. It's a slightly…
Wow. This is Canadian? I thought the Eclipse series was just Japanese and French movies. These kids are very sleepy. Oh, this is a documentary!? These are really the sleepiest kids ever! Uhm. Autism? So this is a documentary about some emotionally disturbed children at an institution where they have…
