FIRST COW

Yesterday, I watched a remarkably beautiful, tender, subtle Film by Kelly Reichardt.............  The film touched me, emotionally, at a very deep level......If you haven't seen it.......please do so.....

However.... approach its viewing without reading any 'plot reveals    or any analysis/critiques of it................  I felt transformed by its nuanced beauty......its structure, its elegant cinematography and acting....well....everything about it.......although it took a few minutes 'into the film' to appreciate its musical soundtrack......and there were some glitches, not 'taken care of' in the sound editing, that took me away for a few seconds...three times.....John Magaro (also in the Todd Haynes Film, CAROL) should have, in my opinion,  received an Academy Award Nomination for his nuanced, sensitive portrayal of 'Cookie'......I'd like to hear/read your 'take' on the movie.....   Kelly Reichardt is, now, on my Radar...

On finding a photo of "Antonius" in a box, beneath a VHS copy of INTACTO .......

 

Sic Transit ...........The first 'serious' actor that I remember, as Antonius Block in The 7th Seal, when I was too young to 'get it' but old enough to know I 'wanted to "get it"'........I've seen all of his films..to 2010....and even watched one that was in Swedish, with German subtitles.....His face told his tale...... INTACTO may be my favorite, however......although I know not a soul that has seen it, other than me........The first week of 'University', in Nashville, oddly enough, I had made friends with 4 other students....film buffs, of course.....; we went to the VUT screening of THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY, double-billed with Polanski's KNIFE IN THE WATER.......Over late night burgers and fries, we had our first 'serious' discussion about 'Art Films'......The very next day.....a Saturday....some students in my dorm....Vanderbilt Hall....known for its anti-intellectual jocks......were getting a group of 'guys' to see BLOOD FEAST.......thinking I shouldn't be such a 'nerd', I headed to Blood Feast, but seeing its Poster, framed by the ticket window.....I was overcome with "ART FILM ADDICTION".....already....and took a bus, down West End Avenue, to see THE LIST OF ADRIAN MESSENGER,,,, Who wouldn't want to see Tony Curtis and Burt Lancaster in 'Drag'? The next week, my best friend, Bert Bottorff, whom I'd known for a full month or two, snagged me from a Rand Hall dinner symposium on Alexander Pope and the entire group of 'would-be poets' journeyed, again, to the VUT ....for THE MAGICIAN and VIRGIN SPRING.....Still 18, I was certain that I 'had arrived' in Adulthood......and Max had 'brought me out', for certain!

Ingmar’s Actors: Max von Sydow - YouTube

THE UNTIMELY DEMISE OF JEAN-JACQUES BEINEIX......

Jean-Jacques Beineix, Luc Besson and Leos Carax, the auteurs of the 1980's Cinema Du Look, are three of my favorite Directors.......I was saddened, moments after noticing that my DVD of DIVA had fallen from a stack of 'to watch again' Films........and, perusing the Internet to find out 'if he had made a recent Film'......eerily, discovered his recent death!“

MODESTY BLAISE (1966) FULL MOVIE IN MEMORY OF MONICA VITTI, WHO DIED YESTERDAY....AT 90.....AND TERENCE STAMP.

Chafed Elbows -- "Black Leather Negligee"

Beat Surrealism......Ready to Roll Inanity or, just some more 45RPM Hay Hay Hay from Robert Downey Jr.'s Dad's stable of intentionally stray actors.... Of course there's both correlance and the intention of sequential happenstance.....right?