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I saw "Paradise" my first year of college. I was blown away. Smith College in Northampton, near Hampshire, which I attended, was offering a class on French Cinema. It's hard not to be down on the current state of cinema when one is exposed to Carne, Renoir, and Truffaut at such a young age. The movies I make often take on the tone of Poetic Realism, for which Carne and Prevert are known. Huge influence! On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Louis Proyect via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > ====================================================================== > Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > ====================================================================== > > > Marcel Carné's Masterpiece > Children of Paradise and the Redemptive Power of Art > by LOUIS PROYECT > > Recently Jeffrey St. Clair polled a group of CounterPunch contributors on > what they considered to be the greatest 100 films ever made (coming soon). > My list omitted “Children of Paradise”, a 1945 French film that was sitting > on my shelf for a couple of months incarnated as two Netflix DVD’s (the > film runs for 195 minutes). Let me make amends for that now after having > seen it for the first time—where have I been all these years? Although I > didn’t rate my top 100 in order of greatness, Marcel Carné’s masterpiece, > about which Francois Truffaut once said “I would give up all my films to > have directed Children of Paradise”, would certainly be among the top ten. > > When you enter the world of “Children of Paradise” that is set in the > 1830s, you recognize immediately an air of artifice that begins with the > opening scene, an image of a curtain that upon lifting reveals hundreds of > Parisians milling about a street filled with acrobats, clowns, magicians, > jugglers and other artists performing in the open air. The street was known > as the Boulevard of Crime, not so much for assaults on the citizens who > flocked there but for the theaters that specialized in policiers. > > full: http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/06/20/children-of- > paradise-and-the-redemptive-power-of-art/ > ________________________________________________ > Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu > Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/ > options/marxism/ernestleif%40gmail.com > ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
