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February 26, 2005
Homage a l'Avenir
Roger Ebert on Breathless:
One inside joke in the film is always mentioned, but is not really there. Michel's alias is "Laszlo Kovacs," and countless writers inform us this is a reference to the legendary Hungarian cinematographer. In fact, Godard had not met Kovacs at the time, and the reference is to the character Belmondo played in Chabrol's "A Double Tour" (1959). In a film with so many references to the past of the cinema, it is amusing to find a coincidental reference to its future.
By coincidence, I ended up watching Easy Rider and Breathless almost back-to-back and Kovacs' name jumped out at me because I remember him as one of the few people involved in the production of Easy Rider who claimed to not be on drugs while shooting the movie. He says so during the credits of the "making of" featurette on the DVD.
I like the way Ebert shows us that intertextual relationships need not be linear.
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February 18, 2005
Process Complete
Hello? Anyone still there?
Ok. I just finished some long-overdue housekeeping on the old whypop server. Things were really broken for a while and the comment spam got out of control so I decided to rebuild the everything, sans-spam. For now, you will have to register with a site called TypeKey to post comments but I may open it up more when I've got some more spam-filtering tools in place.
Joshnotes and The Chop Shop are also back in action now too.
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