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...past 20 years: Truffaut's Jules and Jim and The Wild Child; Godard's Les Carabiniers; and Rossellini's The Rise of Louis XIV. The slide show has been assembled by Alain Resnais, director of such films as Hiroshima Mon Amour, Last Year at Marienbad and La Guerre Est Finie. Today's class will be a bit longer than usual, but I believe you will find the experience entertaining as well as instructive...
...first Robert Altman's new film looks like a baffling slice of metaphysical sci-fi-a sort of 2001 at Marienbad. Weirdly costumed characters with names like Essex and Ambrosia wander around a frozen, nameless city mumbling about the Apocalypse. Packs of vicious dogs appear in scene after snowy scene to gnaw on abandoned human corpses. The number five turns up everywhere: people wear five-sided hats, speak of a five-sided universe and play a five-sided board game called Quintet. What is going on? Is that rascal Altman trying to bring back the new math...
...such references to other movies; viewers with a less academic bent may wonder if Sacks might not be trafficking in stolen goods. Maybe it doesn't make any difference. In the end, only history can conclusively determine whether FM is Hollywood's answer to Last Year at Marienbad or just a particularly rank piece of garbage...
French Department Film: Last Year in Marienbad. 105 Pendleton East, 4:15 p.m. and 7:15 French Department Film: Breathless. 377 Science Center...
Wednesday, March 15: Italian Department: Lecture and Slide Show. Mancy Dersofi, Assistant Professor of Italian, Bryn Mawr College on "The Renaissance of Theatre: the evolution of scenery and written text on sixteenth century Italy." Open to all G06 Pendleton East, 4:15 p.m. French Department Film:Last Year in Marienbad. 105 Pendleton East...