OK s-meister, you've chosen to study Drama, Film and Television as your minor, and your first course will be Film Studies. Turn up at your lecturer's room on Monday and watch your first film, which will be...Alphaville.
For a guy raised on mainstream Hollywood movies this was a baptism of fire! It's in black and white. No problem. It's SF with no hardware. Uh, huh. It starts some guy you've never heard of. It starts with a long tracking shot along a corridor, with a strange, guttural voice talking in French. Let me out!
This is a film full of ideas, typically French, and wonderfully challenging. The voice of Alpha 60? I believe the extraordinary deep voice was that of a person who'd had a laryngectomy. If you had to speak by burping (see Jack Hawkins) you'd sound like that. The swimming pool executions? Watch carefully, first comes a shot, then the swimmers go in and their arms rise and fall as they knife the victim. Marks out of 10? Busby Berkely was never like this.
If you want to see something extraordinary, see this instead of a Hollywood movie. If you can stick with it, you'll begin to experience "la poésie".
For a guy raised on mainstream Hollywood movies this was a baptism of fire! It's in black and white. No problem. It's SF with no hardware. Uh, huh. It starts some guy you've never heard of. It starts with a long tracking shot along a corridor, with a strange, guttural voice talking in French. Let me out!
This is a film full of ideas, typically French, and wonderfully challenging. The voice of Alpha 60? I believe the extraordinary deep voice was that of a person who'd had a laryngectomy. If you had to speak by burping (see Jack Hawkins) you'd sound like that. The swimming pool executions? Watch carefully, first comes a shot, then the swimmers go in and their arms rise and fall as they knife the victim. Marks out of 10? Busby Berkely was never like this.
If you want to see something extraordinary, see this instead of a Hollywood movie. If you can stick with it, you'll begin to experience "la poésie".