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In Reply to: Blow Up/Zabriskie Point: an Antonioni double (spoiler but it doesn't matter) posted by dave c on November 12, 2006 at 11:56:03:
Just teasing you to some degree, as these are great films with no reservations... but... a double feature? Wasn't it too overwhelming? Two films, each one about two hours long... Or maybe you are 30 years younger than I... I could not imagine sitting through such a long journey.Am I getting too old? But there is another aspect... When dealing with great films I usually want some time afterwards to let is sink in.
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... really a double bill, but they were shown with a 20 minute interval and I thought it would be a good thing to see both.
I would have prefered them in date order though.
My friend Holly with whom I went flies to Sydney each year for the film fest there and will see 20 films in 4 days.
My post was just lamenting over days long gone. Today I could do it on a matinee, but the double I tried in the evening a few years ago turned out a disaster.But regardless... your post was good on those films, and I might revisit the ZP, as it's been quite some time. I have it on tape, wonder if I should simply dump it and buy a DVD?
Well, they were both in the afternoon anyway.
I kind of like going during the day now I live in the subtropics... the air con is very pleasant!
Holly is mad about films! She also runs her local film society and attends and contributes to other film festivals as well as this year having run a film component for the Noosa Longweekend arts festival. She also has a full time job.
I don't know about getting the DVD. I have a very good cinema service round Brisbane with 3 independent multi-screen centres as well as the chains, at least one of which likes to show Bollywood for extended seasons.
I like the sensation of the cinema size screen and sound which are pretty impossible to realistically copy at home. I'll give up the convenience of home screenings for most of the time as I top up with a few movie channels on satellite.
You can become a member of each independent here for $12Au.. say $9 US a year and then its only $9.50/$7.00 a ticket. At the moment my favourite cinema is running a members' 2-4-1 ticket offer which is unbeatable. Apart from when I wander in to an afternoon midweek session and because I go a lot, I often just get comped up.
Then there is the Brisbane International Film Festival (BIFF) each July and the related World Movie Club ($60 a year and free entry to films, last week a preview and discussion of Road To Guantanamo, this week advance screening of Black Dahlia)) and I am kept pretty happy!!!
There is nothing like that here, so the DVD's are pretty much the only game for me, except for a few fresh foreign films, those we usually can get on in theater.But for those films that need the truly big screen effect I have the large projector... sure, not quite the same, but when considering the alternatives... sitting in a dark room, with popcorn and close to the screen kinda gets you in the ballpark... I know, I know, clark will tell us the projector black sucks...
Yes, I feel very lucky here especially as there is constant stream of news telling us in how much trouble is the the Australian cinema/film industry. I apologise for the ugliness of the last sentence, but as I noted minutes ago I am in the process of the morning coffee ceremony and its been a hot night for spring; 28 Celsius outside when I got up at 5.45.
I have thought of a projector, indeed I nearly put one into the living room here as its big enough (main area around seven metres square) but I know the screen would never be wound up. At least here I have to go into the TV room!
We have a lot of cinemas and I think, given the restrictions of release dates around the world, we get a very good selection at reasonable prices. It helps I live in the city and can easily get around. If I was prepared to walk I could still get to 17 screens within a 30 minute walk, which is pretty good.
seriously, good reviews. I remember seeing ZP when it first came out and hating it (I love Blow-up and most every other Antonioni film), and as I recall the male lead was a non-actor who it was said had been a carpenter.
My film service still doesn't have it but I'll be revisiting it as soon as it does: I remember ZP as being a bit too preachy and heavy-handed... and I was a hippie.
I, also in full hippy flowering, also thought it pretty bad at the time, but now with a little detachment from the dress codes of youth, its much easier to appreciate what the audiences didn't get before.
As a property developer I found the contrasting of the desert with the incessant flood of advertising and the developer played by Rod Taylor and his white business friends intent on building what I think is a marina in the desert (could be?) while being surrounded by non-white servants to be more relevant. Sorry, I haven't thought thta last sentence out too well, but its early and I am only just starting the coffee ceremony...
Time has, for me at least, given a different perspective to the film and its very, especially at the start, incoherence can be appreciated as a commentary on the times rather than a fault in itself.
In my mind the explosion at the end is entirely in the girl's mind as her belief in America The Beautiful explodes amongst the violence of the times, but a friend wondered if in fact it was a real bomb planted by the domestic help at the house. In my mind that's a "no" but in the spirit of the 60s, its easy to see the film as expansive (as opposed to merely explosive) and thus multiple readings are actually the point. Its tricky to get yourself into the headspace of intellectual Italian movie folk 40 years ago.
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