Dinner Rush Bob Giraldi 2000 US (1st time) A hectic night in a TriBeCa restraurant, owned by a former bookmaker. Witty, engaging and fast-moving film, served with a delicious sense of food as a means of narrative development; from start to finish, a joy to behold.
Masked and Anonymous Larry Charles 2003 US (1st time) An ageing music performer is forced out of retirement to perform at a fundraising concert. Decidedly quirky comedy, of sorts, at which you'll laugh, or at least smile, if you can get past the obscurity of Dylan's script; laiden with notable cameos and performances, which help to buoy, or expose, Dylan's inability to act.
Morte a Venezia (Death in Venice) Luchino Visconti 1971 Italy/France (1st time) A pianist falls in love with a young boy in Venice, and his obsession keeps him there long enough to catch the Plague. Visuals sustain mild interest in an otherwise cardboard affair; throughout, you get the sense of a director passionate about the literary origins of the piece, but his vision has been lost into artificiality somewhere in the process.
Week-end (Weekend) Jean-Luc Godard 1967 France/Italy (3rd time) A bourgeois couple travel to Oinville, but their journey is hampered by an endless traffic jam and forest-dwelling savages. Godard's vision of Hell, depicted with brutal force at the expense of middle class consumerism: apparently, in order to overcome the horrors of the bourgeoisie, more horror is required. Essential viewing, as a cinematic mass of one artist's ideas; it is quite clearly made by somebody disgusted with the world.
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