Paris, Texas @ IFC
This week I’m going to a screening of Paris, Texas at the IFC! I’ll be going to the 6:45 viewing on Tuesday, September 10. The movie is about 2.5 hours long so we should be out around 9:15!
A gaunt man emerges from the heat on the border between the US and Mexico. A mute amnesiac, he seems driven by the desire to reconnect with family. This Cannes winner from 1984 is a powerful statement on self-discovery, loss, redemption, and the unbreakable bounds of love.
Last week’s weeks screening took place unannounced at 10:30pm on Friday. I rewatched Basic Instinct at the Metrograph. This movie is a guilty pleasure of mine; it’s got a low rating on Rotten Tomatoes and takes itself way too seriously, but it has a very well executed (if a little silly) thriller plot and lots of very attractive actors.
I owe one review of Army of Shadows from two weeks ago! I went in expecting French existentialism meets noir. I spent the first 20 minutes realizing I didn’t know very much about the German occupation of France during WW2 (and feeling grateful I knew enough French to tell when they were speaking French vs German!), the first 2/3 wondering if I was just wrong about there being an existential element, and the last 1/3 realizing that it WAS an existential movie after all and that it was BLEAK. Overall I thoroughly enjoyed it but I think someone with more of a history background (or someone much older..) would get more out of it.