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24 February 2012 1:08 PM, PST | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »

Go to composer Michel Legrand's site and you'll be greeted by Barbra Streisand's newish rendition of one of his greatest hits, "The Windmills of Your Mind," originally composed for The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) — it won Legrand his first Oscar. This version opens Streisand's last album, What Matters Most, which, if you throw in the Deluxe Edition Bonus Disc, features eight more Legrand tunes. She's a fan. While Legrand won his second Oscar for his score for Summer of '42 (1971), it was Yentl (1983) that scored him his third win, plus two more nominations, one each for two songs Streisand sings in the film.

Les Films du Losange notes that Legrand turns 80 today, a fine occasion to remind ourselves that, before the "Windmills" years, Legrand worked with Godard (A Woman Is a Woman, Vivre sa vie, Band of Outsiders) and appeared in Agnès Varda's Cléo From 5 to 7 (1961) before he »

9 February 2012 10:32 AM, PST | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »

This video is amazing! Funny or Die, always spot on with the trends in Hollywood explores yet another one, pointing out how international stars hit the worldwide stage and are then promptly cast in villain roles in major Hollywood features. Christoph Waltz and Javier Bardem are the two examples used in the following video as The Artist star Jean Dujardin audiences for the villain roles in films such as Skyfall, Mission: Impossible 5, Die Hard 5 and even sequels to Jack and Jill and Bridesmaids. I hadn't even watched the whole thing when he blurts out the line, "Not so fast Ethan Hunt... Looks like this mission... is impossible," and I had to share it immediately. I've watched the rest since and it is well worth the three minutes. Not many of these videos actually make me laugh out loud, this one did... If anything, this may be enough to prompt you »

- Brad Brevet

19 January 2012 11:41 PM, PST | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »

Une Femme est une Femme (a.k.a. A Woman Is a Woman), 1961.

Directed by Jean-Luc Godard.

Starring Jean-Claude Brialy, Anna Karina and Jean-Paul Belmondo.

Synopsis:

This isn’t just any musical comedy. This is a Godardian musical comedy.

“Émile and Angéla’s greatest flaw is that ‘They wrongly believe there are no limits to their everlasting and reciprocal love.’”

These words are printed onscreen at one point during Une Femme est une Femme (A Woman is a Woman). Angéla (Anna Karina) and her lover Émile (Jean-Claude Brialy) are in a rare moment of agreement when it does. For the rest of the film, they bicker. They argue and they fight and they quarrel, seemingly without end in that specifically 60s kind of campiness.

Angéla wants to have a baby. When? Now, tonight. Don’t be ridiculous, is Émile’s main defence. There is no foreground or exposition to their relationship prior to this discussion, »

- flickeringmyth

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