Pasolini
I've listed my favorite movies twice on this blog, but now I've seen (re-seen, as if with new eyes) two that I don't hesitate to call masterpieces (I've never said that about a film before): Pasolini's MEDEA (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGPd411gOYA) and his ARABIAN NIGHTS (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnJr57OD6hQ). He's the Dostoyevsky of cinema, passionate to the point of hysteria but without the Christian hypocrisy, and he knows how to laugh. The YouTube videos are choppy and scrambled but they're worth it.
“Let us be vulgar and have some fun—let us invite the President.”—Henry James
Ladies and Gentlemen,
These intensely political,
post-intellectual times are so sincere! Is anything more boring than sincerity?
While the mob rages, may we
not indulge in such privileged pleasures as Lubitsch
knew how?
As for politics, I had always imagined James Bond to be more or less a solution, a vulgar fantasy, I know, and I’ve even imagined his replacement.
As for vulgarity, here is Toby
oppressed
by a large woman.
And, what the hell, let us
invite the president.
Tally-ho,
Robert
Robert MacLean is an independent filmmaker. His recent The Light Touch is on Amazon Prime, Tubi and Scanbox, and his 7-minute comedy is an out-loud laugh. He is also a novelist, a playwright, a blogger, a YouTuber, a film reviewer, a literary critic, and a stand-up comic poet. Born Toronto, PhD McGill, taught at Canadian universities, too cold, live Greece, Irish citizen. No brains, but an intellectual snob.
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