currently reading?

[froopy seal]

Originally Posted by grady

I hope that old thread can be re-upped as there was a great deal of history and recommendations that I never copied to a personal text file.

Seconded.

[grady]

After seeing the Alain Resnais film Last Year in Marienbad twice this past weekend I've been on a binge consuming essays on the film and searching for the British Film Institute's a book on the film as part of their BFI Classics series.

After locating the book I've dropped other readings and made the following my primary focus.

Last Year in Marienbad by Jean-Louis Leutrat.

[jOHN rODRIGUEZ]

Originally Posted by grady

After seeing the Alain Resnais film Last Year in Marienbad twice this past weekend I've been on a binge consuming essays on the film and searching for the British Film Institute's a book on the film as part of their BFI Classics series.

After locating the book I've dropped other readings and made the following my primary focus.

Last Year in Marienbad by Jean-Louis Leutrat.

aaaah, truth is stranger than fiction.

[grady]

Originally Posted by jOHN rODRIGUEZ

aaaah, truth is stranger than fiction.

You know the film?

[stimpee]

Originally Posted by grady

Did the thread fall victim to spam?

no its fallen victim to Yan not uploading the rest of the old forum posts.

[grady]

Originally Posted by stimpee

no its fallen victim to Yan not uploading the rest of the old forum posts.

ok, it's good to know they still exist in some form.

[jOHN rODRIGUEZ]

Originally Posted by stimpee

no its fallen victim to Yan not uploading the rest of the old forum posts.

OK, get off Yan. He's busy. j/k

Yep. Need to view again though. I'm kinda slow with movies.

[grady]

Originally Posted by jOHN rODRIGUEZ

OK, get off Yan. He's busy. j/k

Yep. Need to view again though. I'm kinda slow with movies.

It was a pretty great film. Having never seen it I was confused and attracted to it. The first showing I went to Saturday evening, four people walked out about an hour in. Sunday afternoon for my second viewing two people walked out.

It's such a strange and compelling film, but not for everyone.

The BFI book, though short has been enlightening with a large amount of production anecdotes and information, but has been a bit unsatisfying as far as the criticism and interpretation of the film goes.

[ceramic'cow]

Originally Posted by ceramic'cow

Hmmm. I've sort of got Ancestor's Tale on the go as well. I've got some scientific background, and I think it does get a bit heavy going at times. But I'm never sure if that's just Dawkins' writing style. I raced through God Delusion, but get him on to genetics and I find him harder going.

I'm going to have to make a bit of a U-Turn here. I've dived back into Ancestor's Tale and I'm racing through it now. I think it was all the early-human stuff that I got bogged down in. Australopithecus this, proto-hominid that Sahelanthropus the other . . .


But since then, it's been really good. I'm still on mammals, which is kind of my area, I guess, but it's definitely been much easier going once out of the Human evolution stuff.

[Deckard]

^^ That's good to know.

If my memory serves, I'm sure Adam (does he still frequent these boards?) had good things to say about it as well.