Word: marienbad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...between us and the characters that the gap becomes unbridgeable. That is why we admire Padre Padrone without being engaged by it, and care more about the filmmakers' achievements than we do about what happens to the hero. Like other such oddities as Resnais' Last Year at Marienbad or Antonioni's Zabriskie Point, Padre Padrone is a dead movie whose novel cinematic vocabulary will survive the corpse...