Join me in my small-ass apartment this Sunday at 8:00 PM for your weekly Movie Night fix. As always, pizza will be provided and I will have Coca-Cola and St. Arnold's beer to wash it down. In my continuing mission to expose the group to films from some of the greatest directors of all-time I have selected the 1967 film "Persona" to represent the Swedish director Ingmar Bergman.
Synopsis from Netflix:
"To achieve more effective treatment, a nurse (Bibi Andersson) and her patient (Liv Ullmann), an actress who's lost the power of speech, check into a private cottage by the sea. Isolated from most of the rest of society, the two women become co-dependent and insanely jealous of each other."
The movie is 83 minutes so perhaps we can also play some Tetris, Dr. Mario, and / or other 2-player video games before and / or after the movie. For my next pick I will be selecting the film noir classic "Double Indemnity".
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According to the quotes on IMDb, Bergman thinks both Orson Welles' and Jean-Luc Godard's movies suck.
hmm... I can see someone saying that about Godard, but Orson Welles?
what's he on about?
"Citizen Kane... it's a total bore. Above all, the performances are worthless. The amount of respect that movie's got is absolutely unbelievable."
"Godard is a fucking bore. He's made his films for the critics. One of the movies, Masculin, féminin, was shot here in Sweden. It was mind-numbingly boring."
"Among today's directors I'm of course impressed by Steven Spielberg and Scorsese, and Coppola, even if he seems to have ceased making films, and Steven Soderbergh."
is he having a laugh? (i sure am)
His criticism are pretty typical of those who dislike Welles and Godard. I've heard Citizen Kane-Haters describing it as emotionally shallow. As for Godard, with his style, it is difficult not to be called a critic-ass-kisser by someone like Godard.
But Spielberg, hummm. He's just perfect.
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