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I saw Bressons Mouchette and Antonionis L'Eclisse last weekend. Mouchette because a friend told me (SPOILER) it had a scene quite similar, but different, from the scenes in Bonheur and Sansho, that I wrote a bit about. And it does. It's really interesting how the same motif can be played out so...

I've only seen a few Godards, and they've all been about girls and guns. There isn't really a lot to the plots, but there are just so many wonderful little scenes, like the dance scene at the café in Bande a Part, or the few songs in Pierrot or the audaciousness of the cutting in the little...

Yuri Norstein, perhaps, if you haven't seen him. Soviet animation, melancholic of course. Hedgehog in the Fog, a short masterpiece: Tale of Tales, a more abstract, and longer film: I've saw French film this weekend. Godard's Pierrot le Fou and Varda's Le Bonheur. Pierrot was amazingly good...

I think the third kind of un-realism was just stories inspired by myth, fairy tale and religion. I'm not sure, and I've lost my notes. But there is a mysticism to much culture in South America - influenced by native South American culture, and African religion as well - that infiltrates culture...

My profesor back in Denmark once explained that there was three different categories of South American un-realistic fiction. Magical Realim, like GGM and MVL. Fantastic fiction, a described by Tzodorov, and which include Borges and Cortazar. And... something third... I've forgotten parts of...

I kinda like GGM. He's a lot less twee than most of the Magical Realists that came after him. Even in 100 Years, there's still some incest and murder and stuff, but try and read his Autumn of the Patriarch. That one is just grim. All the magical stuff has almost the same effect as the sci-fi...

Any Barthelme fans? I read The King the other day (yup, it's so short that I read it on a single day. Can't remember the last time that happened). It was a fine retelling of King Arthur, set in the 1940s. Good, sad and funny. But as a Dane, I don't really get what he has against Denmark: "True...

The only other Tarr film I've seen is Damnation. It is good as well, but not quite so good as Werckmeister. His new one, The Turin Horse, sounds good as well. Nietzche reference in the title, that means that it is a deep film. The Man From London is on my list as well. I saw Murnaus The Last...

Inherent Vice was pretty much Pynchon by the numbers. Which was enough for me. I'm a huge fan. And he is getting kinda old, and has written some of the my favorite books of all time, so he's allowed to just rest on his laurels and churn out likable sillyness from here on out. I would love...

I saw Bela Tarrs Werckmeister Harmonies this weekend, which is one of the best films I have ever seen. So yeah, highly recommended. I tried to write down something about it on my blog. Part one explains the title, that might be interesting? Part two is kinda confused. It is a weird film. But...

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Perhaps Witz by Joshua Cohen? It's definately massive, it's filled with biblical references, and it has a huge deadcount. Someday, all the jews of the world drop dead, except for the firstborn sons. The final survivor, Benjamin ben Israeli, born a full grown man with a beard and glasses, is...

Aleksei Germans My Friend Ivan Lapshin. On Stalinist secret police right before the purges. I can't figure out what I think, so it might belong more in the 'films I would slightly reservedly recommend' thread. Check it out. And explain it to me. I don't really know.

The Quince Tree Sun by Victor Erice, who also made The Spirit of the Beehive. The painter Antonio Lopez Garcia is trying to paint the sun in his Quince Tree in his backyard. And that's pretty much it. It just shows him strugling to capture a bit of beauty in a boring world, and at times becomes...

Right, right. Sorry, new to this place. Didn't notice there actually was a running tv-thread. Moved post: Huh, weird that the hype in this place around Mad Men stopped after season 3. In my eyes, season 4 took the show into the realm of the very best shows ever. It was just brilliant. Mad Men...