re: Muriel I still haven't seen it but have long been intrigued. I read something about Resnais using A LOT of dissolves instead of straight cuts, and considering what he did with straight cuts in Last Year at Marienbad I'm pretty curious what he could do with dissolves. I dunno.
I had no idea it was in colour.
Where/how did you get your hands on a copy of Muriel?
His short documentary 'Le chant du styrene' is also "an important film in its own right." But man oh man are there ever a lot of Resnais films I haven't seen.
I especially like the middle one.
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I still haven't seen it but have long been intrigued. I read something about Resnais using A LOT of dissolves instead of straight cuts, and considering what he did with straight cuts in Last Year at Marienbad I'm pretty curious what he could do with dissolves. I dunno.
I had no idea it was in colour.
Where/how did you get your hands on a copy of Muriel?
His short documentary 'Le chant du styrene' is also "an important film in its own right." But man oh man are there ever a lot of Resnais films I haven't seen.
-Matthew
That's funny, I didn't even notice the dissolves. As far as I know you can still get Muriel on dvd in canada, somebody lent me a copy of it.
ReplyDeleteIt's strange for how often his name is thrown around that his films are so difficult to find. Kind of like Kinks albums.
Where did you see, Le chant du styrene?
ReplyDeleteI saw it in a class.
ReplyDeleteI think I've seen 3 or 4 Greatest Hits compilations for every Kinks album I've encountered.
-Matthew