Tuesday, July 31, 2007

First Bergman, Then Antonioni

Somewhere in Europe, Jean-Luc Godard is hiding in a cellar and trying to keep very, very quiet....
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Daryl Chin said...

Actually, i think it should be Alain Resnais, because Resnais was the other big one at the art houses in the 1950s (HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR and LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD were huge art house hits, though his best movie, MURIEL, was a flop... but he rebounded with LA GUERRE EST FINIE which was also a hit); don't forget, Godard was very specialized, most critics hated him, most of his films (with the exception of BREATHLESS) were flops. Most people didn't see Godard's movies in their theatrical release, most people caught Godard in revival. But Bergman, Fellini, Antonioni and Resnais had big hits during the late 1950s or 1960s. (What was freaky about Antonioni was that, for someone who was considered so "arty", he would have the biggest hit of all: BLOW UP was the ninth highest-grossing movie of 1967 in the US. It actually beat BONNIE AND CLYDE, which was a flop on its initial release and took a re-release which happened at the end of 1967, taking BONNIE AND CLYDE into 1968, for BONNIE AND CLYDE to start making money.)

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