Eclipse 1968: Black Panthers

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This is very different from Varda’s earlier movies. I mean, not the subject matter, but the way it’s filmed and edited. It’s so restless and frantic.

The little red book is in such a practical format.

But this is really good. It’s got Varda’s eye for details, and her curiosity about everything.

Black Panthers. Agnès Varda. 1968.

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Eclipse 1932: One Hour With You

As musicals go… this doesn’t have a lot of music?

This is a pre Hayes code movie – I don’t think that costume would have flown afterwards?

This is a very odd movie. I just read the Criterion text on the DVD cover, and apparently this was going to be a George Cukor movie, but then Lubitsch got involved and re-shot a lot of the scenes, and… drama!

But I mean, it’s a fun movie, but it’s weirdly aimless. I feels like watching one of those 70s movies? About hippies wearing fringe coats and talking about freedom and stuff?

So it’s prescient and weird, but isn’t not actually that entertaining?

One Hour With You. George Cukor, Ernst Lubitsch. 1932.

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Eclipse 1931: The Smiling Lieutenant

Now that’s a train I’d like to ride.

This is very amusing. It’s not hilarious or anything, but it’s got a good flow going on, and the characters are good, and it never stops amusing.

I was disappointed in the previous two Lubitsch movies, but this works.

I really like this movie… but… I’d be hard pressed to actually say what the plot here is. It’s kinda effervescent?

They’re gonna fuck!!!

He’s very happy about that.

The Smiling Lieutenant. Ernst Lubitsch. 1931.

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