Am I blogging...or am I pitching my existence?
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Saturday, August 14, 2004 The Pitch: It's like La Dolce Vita meets La Dolce Vita! So, we went to La Dolce Vita today and it was awesome. Actually, it was much more awesome for me than for Edi because she was driven crazy by a guy eating loudly behind her and me eating constantly next to her and this constant locust-like perennial mastication drove her nuts, but she insists the movie was also awesome for her. Hmm.Nonetheless, it was awesome for me. For a movie I only saw once almost twenty years ago, I was shocked at how much of the film I remembered--the movie seemed more compressed than it did when I first saw it years ago (it seemed endless then, and grew and collapsed on a rhythm unlike anything I had seen. It was like going to a beach where the waves didn't behave the way they ever had before), but I think that's because I'm way more comfortable with three hour films now, and because I knew what I was seeing--I knew what came next. I think maybe later--maybe--I'll write more about it. I am going to see this again before the end of the week--at least twice, I hope. I actually don't need to--having a movie be so burned into your consciousness you're able to remember 95% of it twenty years later makes it pretty likely I won't really retain any more by seeing it repeatedly--but seeing that movie on the big screen today brought a lot of feelings and thoughts closer to my conciousness. I hope to either get a very good essay on La Dolce Vita or some decent material about my relation to the cinema generally from this. (And not that anyone's asking, but I'm still working on the movie project: poor Edi watched me start to review the 170+ movies I saw in the theater. I'm writing down who I saw each movie with and where. I hope to have more conclusions soon, particularly since this upcoming week is newsletter week and I'd like to get a few more lists out of the way before then.) Now, though, it's to the video store. Edi and I were supposed to go see my pal Dave R., hang out at his place, watch Justice League, and then go get dinner. But we called and flaked out on him. The sad fact is, I don't get very many Saturdays off, and after going out and watching the movie and walking around the Castro, what I want to do most in the world is lie in bed with my beautiful girlfriend, perhaps with a bottle of beer or two, and watch, yes, another movie. If we could, I would lobby for La Dolce Vita, but thankfully it's not possible. I think we need the cinematic equivalent of coffee and dessert after Fellini's five course meal. posted by Jeff Lester | 6:53 PM | |
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