and it was. Lightbox is running a fall program they call Essential Film. They will be screening their pick for the top 100 films all time. So as expected there are some commercial blockbusters like The Godfather but also Charlie Chaplin's City Lights. Mostly it is the everything in between I am interested in and last night was the first for Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless. I have been trying to see this film since 2006 and either couldn't find it or it was sold out and I mean here and Vancouver. I would have spent $800 for this ticket and felt I got my value out of it.
John-Paul Belmondo's breath-through at 27. Jean Seberg was 22. Google Jean Seberg, she was dead at 40 and buried in Paris. This isn't cinema this is an experience. French New Wave or La Novelle Vague makes Hollywood B an art form. The dialogue, the premise and the cinematography are spell binding. You laugh and mean it if only for a moment. If I had to compare it to something popular 'Bullit' 1968 Steve McQueen. Breathless from 1960 doesn't tell a story the way we have been trained to watch a movie. Fifty years later it is something that you want to last forever knowing that it will.
'Howl' opens a limited engagement October 7. Assuming you know the work or Allen Ginsberg or just the "beat generation' I think this will be important.
October 12 Lightbox will screen 'Voyage to Italy' (Viaggio in Italia) Rossellini and Italian neorealism with Ingrid Bergman. Isabella Rossellini will be in the house to introduce the screening.
I will break from my 'level Crossing 'dailies' blog to comment on these and some of the other selections over the next six weeks.
Bravo Lightbox.
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