Resurrecting the Movies thread...

[Jeff Wrangler]

I don't know if you could tell, but that face was made of crayons. Not drawn with crayons, but sculpted from full physical crayons in various shades. There's a lot of that genre on the "serious crayons" google images page.

Sure enough! I remember you mentioning somewhere that the face was sculpted with crayons, but it still made me think of a scull, er sumpin'. Like I said, creepy. ... 

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How gorgeous is Nicholas Hoult, even as a zombie. I love that boy!

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07s-cNFffDM[/youtube]

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Today, I received my copy of the Criterion Pickpocket DVD that I ordered about a week ago from amazon.  I had watched the whole film on youtube but the commentary and supplements included on the dvd were a joy to watch.  I still can't believe that I had never seen a Robert Bresson film.  He is considered the father of the French New Wave to Jean Cocteau's mother of the French New Wave.  I have seen a couple of Cocteau's films, La belle et la bête and Orphée on TV when I was too young to really appreciate them but old enough to realize that what I was watching was something special, but for some reason I never came upon a Bresson film.  Anyway, all that to say that Pickpocket is now on my top ten all-time favourite films. The fact that the film is so damn homoerotic is definitely a factor, lol!

[Front-Ranger]

Formidable!

[brianr]

 He is considered the father of the French New Wave to Jean Cocteau's mother of the French New Wave.  

??Jean Cocteau was male

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??Jean Cocteau was male

Yes, but oh so gay, lol!

[Front-Ranger]

But what about Francois Truffault, Jean Renoir and Jean-Luc Godard?

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But what about Francois Truffault, Jean Renoir and Jean-Luc Godard?

The last Godard film I saw was  Film Socialisme, and man, was it ever tough going!  I'm afraid I just couldn't get into it.  I suppose I should give it another chance but just the thought makes me anxious, lol!

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FN27Hhfkf6k[/youtube]

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The first 4 minutes of Warm Bodies, the zombie love story starring Nicholas (A Single Man) Hoult!

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_891246&feature=iv&src_vid=rARN6agiW7o&v=4GKzwcCbLCI[/youtube]

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Tonight a local TV station was showing Luchino Visconti's Rocco and His Brothers (1960) starring a bevy of sexy actors, including Alain Delon, in his prime,  and Renato Salvatori. The film is an operatic and homoerotic melodrama and I highly recommend it!

Homoeroticism is blessedly rampant throughout Rocco. Someone once said that Visconti "cast with his dick," though unfortunately there's no footage of this process taking place. Still, the parade of gorgeous male flesh, the lingering close-ups on these men who are still somehow boys, supports the idea, giving the film a sensuality that sets it apart from other films of the period, Italian or not. When Simone, who has the unmistakable whiff of rough trade, takes a shower after a boxing match, it's a toss-up who's doing the heaviest cruise on his hunky form: the camera, as directed by Visconti; or the blatantly queer impresario who's "taken an interest" in Simone and his ample "natural gifts." The relationship of Rocco and Simone also plumbs the depths of homoerotic attachment, and Rocco's anguish at Simone's increasingly disastrous life — at one point he's a virtual rent boy — is one of the most moving elements in the film.
http://brightlightsfilm.com/39/rocco.php