Go watch Quebec cinema.
Tonight will be sit and watch movie night. Wednesday is two-for-one rentals. To my shame, I decided that meant I should take out four movies, two light/silly, two not-English (but one is French, Les Invasions Barbares, and the other has a French sountrack, Good Bye, Lenin, so I don’t need to be reading subtitles, which is nice). I’ll probably work on design revisions to the blog while I watch. (Harrison, I hope you’re ready for bunches of questions.)
I’ve actually been intending to see Les Invasions Barbares since I first read reviews of it. Quebec cinema is seriously underrated (or underknown), and while I was out of Quebec, I never got a chance to see any of them, because they were neither in theatres nor available to rent. (Les Triplettes de Belleville, which I saw in the US, is not a Quebec film, though it got some Canadian (and possibly Quebecois) funding, and was made in Montreal (and of course had some Montreal & Quebec City backgrounds): Sylvain Chomet is French.) I’ve also never seen Jesus of Montreal, which I should.
And I loved the comment Denise Robert, producer of the movie and Arcand’s wife, made after it won the Oscar (best foreign language film):
We’re so thankful that Lord of the Rings did not qualify in this category.
August 25th, 2004 at 3:59 pm
I’m such a movie addict. Current good-girl (non-night-owl) status is prohibiting me from my regular weekly rentals.
August 25th, 2004 at 4:26 pm
Hey, I love Lord of the Rings!. I’ve been on a movie watching (and buying) kick as well. Just got and watched the Tim Drum, one of my favorite movies as a boy — hadn’t watched it since I was about 14, and really liked it. Others — Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, with its spectacular acting and stupid screenplay, that tries to provide 12 different reasons for Brick’s problems, in order to avoid the real one (his best friend, the man he loved, was gay.) Instead they make the guy commit suicide because he’s not as good at football as Brick things.
August 25th, 2004 at 4:26 pm
Hmmm, do you have your cite tag defined as plaintext?
August 25th, 2004 at 4:41 pm
I watched the Oscars with a bunch of LotR fans, and we all just howled at that line from Robert. Too funny!
Though, heresy or no, I still think “Belleville Rendezvous” totally got robbed for Best Song.
August 25th, 2004 at 6:48 pm
I’d like to be more of a movie addict than perhaps I am. I *am* a teen-girl-movie addict. I don’t know why.
I also loved LotR, but it did rather sweep the Oscars. I guess there wasn’t enough of the Tolkien languages to make it foreign language. :>
“Belleville Rendezvous” is incredibly catchy & fun. I don’t have it on CD (or mp3) or I’d try to help with the slang, btw.
And, no I don’t have cite tags defined. Any particular standard?
August 25th, 2004 at 7:59 pm
I thought Jesus of Montral was boring.
But I’m dying to see the Barbarian Invasions (my French is really just Franglais) and the Triplets, yes.
August 25th, 2004 at 11:44 pm
No doubt: Bellville Rendezvous was *totally* robbed for best song. I’ve got the DVD and I love it.
By default, cite tags are italics (they are used, despite what the name suggestions, for the things that you would ordinarily italicize: names of newspapers, names of books, etc. The I tag is deprecated, and the em tag is supposed to be used for emphasis. So you use the cite tag for the cases I mentioned.
But I used the cite tag in my earlier comment, and the text didn’t get any treatment. What happens when you use it in a post?
August 27th, 2004 at 11:39 pm
I don’t think I’ve done anything for cite tags anywhere. I’ll get around to it. Maybe.