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| - | Today's World Cinema Classic is ''[[Glen or Glenda]]'', a film on [[transsexuality]] directed by [[Ed Wood, Jr.]] and released in 1953. I only saw this a couple of years ago. Since the arrival of the VCR, the film has been marketed as [[bad film|one of the worst ever]]. I disagree, it's very enjoyable. There is a [[Oneiric film theory|dream scene]] in this film (a bit similar to the one shown in the clip) which ranks way up there with "genuine" [[surrealist film]]s such as ''[[Un Chien Andalou]]''. By all means, see it. | + | Today's World Cinema Classic is ''[[Glen or Glenda]]'', a film on [[transsexuality]] directed by [[Ed Wood, Jr.]] and released in 1953. I only saw this a couple of years ago. Since the arrival of the VCR, the film has been marketed as [[bad film|one of the worst ever]]. I disagree, it's very enjoyable. There is a [[dream scene]] in this film (a bit similar to the one shown in the clip) which ranks way up there with "genuine" [[surrealist film]]s such as ''[[Un Chien Andalou]]''. By all means, see it. |
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Today's World Cinema Classic is Glen or Glenda, a film on transsexuality directed by Ed Wood, Jr. and released in 1953. I only saw this a couple of years ago. Since the arrival of the VCR, the film has been marketed as one of the worst ever. I disagree, it's very enjoyable. There is a dream scene in this film (a bit similar to the one shown in the clip) which ranks way up there with "genuine" surrealist films such as Un Chien Andalou. By all means, see it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUdsqaEV8q8&
I am not a cinephile
I would have to concur with Alain Robbe-Grillet who stated in a televised interview that he is not a cinephile. He is interested in "certain films," that's it. "What are commonly called true cinephiles are mental retards (débile mentale) who love "the movies", people who run to any theatre to submit to viewing any film. They consume with the same pleasure whatever genre of film. That is what is known as cinephelia. It's an illness. Less common than it used to be," he concedes.
From Alain Robbe-Grillet : Je ne suis pas un cinéphile ! posted by beethoven000999.
P. S.: guilty pleasure of the day: Yelle - "A Cause des Garçons" Remix Tepr Video Tecktonik, a popular track when it first came out in 1987 in Francophone Europe, here in a recent remix.
It arrived late in an aging civilization
