Comments on: Unfortunately, I still don’t like Resnais http://www.naruhodou.org/choco/2008/11/26/unfortunately-i-still-dont-like-resnais/ How would Wilder do it? Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:29:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Sasa http://www.naruhodou.org/choco/2008/11/26/unfortunately-i-still-dont-like-resnais/comment-page-1/#comment-552 Sasa Thu, 27 Nov 2008 09:20:51 +0000 http://www.naruhodou.org/choco/2008/11/26/unfortunately-i-still-dont-like-resnais/#comment-552 Haha, not really. I have had this watch-list for 3 years after all, and I'm never going to finish it unless I get "A Wedding" somehow. It looks difficult and I'm definitely not going to pay 20 euro for the DVD. Ah, I knew you would say something about Resnais! I believe you that it's impossible to really judge him from the two movies I have seen, especially "On connaît la chanson" surely is quite different from his other movies (none of them look like a comedy to me). On the other hand, I rarely watch more than 2 movies by the same director and if I do, it's because I really adore his work. We will see! Mélo is definitely on my watch list now. :) The best about Providence was the ending indeed. Even though "waking up from a nightmare" is sooo deus ex machina, it made perfect sense in the movie. Oh by the way, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvCIPpWFo7Y">this video</a> looks so great. If the movie looks like that as well, I might accept the latent pointlessness of the plot. XD (What irritates me, however, is the extreme britishness of the band, lol.) Haha, not really. I have had this watch-list for 3 years after all, and I’m never going to finish it unless I get “A Wedding” somehow. It looks difficult and I’m definitely not going to pay 20 euro for the DVD.

Ah, I knew you would say something about Resnais! I believe you that it’s impossible to really judge him from the two movies I have seen, especially “On connaît la chanson” surely is quite different from his other movies (none of them look like a comedy to me). On the other hand, I rarely watch more than 2 movies by the same director and if I do, it’s because I really adore his work. We will see! Mélo is definitely on my watch list now. :)

The best about Providence was the ending indeed. Even though “waking up from a nightmare” is sooo deus ex machina, it made perfect sense in the movie.

Oh by the way, this video looks so great. If the movie looks like that as well, I might accept the latent pointlessness of the plot. XD (What irritates me, however, is the extreme britishness of the band, lol.)

]]> By: Prog http://www.naruhodou.org/choco/2008/11/26/unfortunately-i-still-dont-like-resnais/comment-page-1/#comment-548 Prog Wed, 26 Nov 2008 20:43:01 +0000 http://www.naruhodou.org/choco/2008/11/26/unfortunately-i-still-dont-like-resnais/#comment-548 Wow, you are amazing at working-off watch-lists! O_O I thought the best thing about "Providence" was the ending bit in the garden? It was like waking up from a nightmare, after all the shifting between dream and reality, haha. The one Resnais I'd unconditionally recommend is "Mélo", which really displays him at the very top of his abilities - I've never actually seen a more inspired blend of theater and film, and it basically does miraculous things with the idea of melodrama. I really admire "Last Year in Marienbad" and believe it is one of the great enigmatic films, though I wouldn't necessarily recommend it (I think I really started to fully appreciate it after reading "The Invention of Morel", on which the skript was loosely based). I was stunned by "Hiroshima mon amour" - and many people seem to be - but I'd still place "Mélo" as the greatest, followed by this one and Marienbad. And, uh, I haven't seen "On connaît la chanson"! Wow, you are amazing at working-off watch-lists! O_O
I thought the best thing about “Providence” was the ending bit in the garden? It was like waking up from a nightmare, after all the shifting between dream and reality, haha.
The one Resnais I’d unconditionally recommend is “Mélo”, which really displays him at the very top of his abilities – I’ve never actually seen a more inspired blend of theater and film, and it basically does miraculous things with the idea of melodrama.
I really admire “Last Year in Marienbad” and believe it is one of the great enigmatic films, though I wouldn’t necessarily recommend it (I think I really started to fully appreciate it after reading “The Invention of Morel”, on which the skript was loosely based).
I was stunned by “Hiroshima mon amour” – and many people seem to be – but I’d still place “Mélo” as the greatest, followed by this one and Marienbad.
And, uh, I haven’t seen “On connaît la chanson”!

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