Tuesday, April 18, 2006
Lemmy outta here
Herewith my Zip.ca review of Alphaville. According to the IMDb, the working title was Tarzan v. IBM and the "informal title" was Dick Tracy on Mars. I think a better title might have been I Have My Head Up My Ass. Incidentally, the production values in this movie are terrible.
Written on a toilet seat - Bunuel (Toronto, ON)
Is this the most ridiculous movie ever? No, that honour probably belongs to The Fifth Element; but Luc Besson's godfather is Jean-Luc Godard. This is a mish-mosh of intellectual pretension that only a Frenchman could come up with. To its credit, there is a certain visual style, and some occasional moments of intentional humour. These are outweighed by the unintentional humour of what is supposed to be beautiful or profound poetry, and the leaden presentation of the dystopic theme. Godard has managed to bamboozle the art film crowd more thoroughly than anyone in history - this movie is just one of a number of his intellectual frauds.
We can only be thankful that the DVD does not include any comment.
Written on a toilet seat - Bunuel (Toronto, ON)
Is this the most ridiculous movie ever? No, that honour probably belongs to The Fifth Element; but Luc Besson's godfather is Jean-Luc Godard. This is a mish-mosh of intellectual pretension that only a Frenchman could come up with. To its credit, there is a certain visual style, and some occasional moments of intentional humour. These are outweighed by the unintentional humour of what is supposed to be beautiful or profound poetry, and the leaden presentation of the dystopic theme. Godard has managed to bamboozle the art film crowd more thoroughly than anyone in history - this movie is just one of a number of his intellectual frauds.
We can only be thankful that the DVD does not include any comment.
# posted by Stephen @ 7:47 p.m. 
