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...that he had written his doctoral dissertation on Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. Both of Robert Parker's novels, about a private eye known simply as Spenser, are filled with echoes of the masters. But Parker is really not a pirate. Instead, he resembles film makers like Jean-Luc Godard, who pay homage to great directors of the past with little vignettes so blatantly similar in style that no aficionado could miss or fail to savor them...
...some people who aren't in the bunker this week. Like If I Had A Million and that recent film on the Munich Olympics, this is a conglomerate movie, with different directors each interpreting the same subject--here, Paris. The directors are mostly New Wave in this case: Jean-Luc Godard, Eric Rohmer, Claude Chabrol, others, and--though the information I have here doesn't say so--I could have sworn that Louis Malle did a bit for this one, the best...
...joust, a mailed hand clutching the handle of a weapon, a horse's eye going wide in terror. These visions occur, however, not in an epic adventure, but as part of a moral speculation in miniature. Bresson's ascetic attentions converge on the fateful romance of Lancelot (Luc Simon) and Queen Guinevere (Laura Duke Condominas) and extend beyond it to the end of the courtly tradition, as did the original Arthurian legends. What is missing is passion, a quality essential to such a subject. Without it, for all its frosty beauty, Lancelot of the Lake looks like...
...Jean-Luc Godard's Masculine/Feminine Friday and Saturday, March...
...Jean-Luc and I got him washed and into bed. When the thunder broke he began to shake with terror and glee. The war, his father, the people on the beach, bombs, planes and lightning were all the same to him for that moment. When the storm finally subsided he went to sleep. He cried out once or twice in the night, but did not awaken...