Jan 25 2007

Film Anyone?

Published by Kelly at 3:52 am under Lou Life

So, I embarrassingly admit that I have never read Fahrenheit 451 and that I just saw the movie for the first time lFahr 451ast year.  LAST YEAR. 

The shame continues…

I had to LOOK UP who these filmmakers are and what their movies are that I’m about to post about.  My head is bowed.  We can’t all know EVERYTHING.  (The amount of caps in this post directly corresponds to the level of shame.)

Anyway, so Wash. U. got a big grant from the NEA to put on a sort of festival here called The Big Read, and the book is Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. We’re participating in a rather lame way–we’re stocking the book (which we already stock), and, you know, carrying the flyers, posters, CD Roms, etc…

They, however, are much more creative in their support.  This weekend they’re showing four films, all free, in Brown 100:

Friday Jan. 26 at 7pm– La Jetee by Chris Marker and Fahrenheit 451 by Truffaut.

Saturday Jan. 27 at 7pm– The Eyes of the Birds by Gabriel Auer and Ghost in the Shell 2 (Innocence) by Mamoru Oshii.

OK, so I knew who Marker and Truffaut were, but I didn’t know what La Jetee was about.  Or The Eyes of the Birds.  They both sound really fascinating.  And the Oshii is animation. Oh, and someone is remaking Fahrenheit 451 in 2007.

—Kelly

3 responses so far

3 Responses to “Film Anyone?”

  1. Jason says:
    January 25, 2007 at 7:04 pm

    If you all haven’t seen “La Jetee,” you must. It’s a beautiful and lyric short sf film that was the inspiration for Terry Gilliam’s “12 Monkeys” (which is worth a view too). I also think (not that anyone should care what I think) that Truffaut’s version of “451″ is an interesting subversion of the Puritanism in Bradbury’s novel–particularly (***here be spoilers***) the last scene. Bradbury has his intellectual hobos rise above the bawdiness, kitsch, and cult of the image in society; Truffaut, on the other hand, shows these “intellectuals” as unfeeling zombies. Not that Bradbury isn’t one of my favorite writers, I just think it’s an interesting interpretation.

  2. Daron Dierkes says:
    January 28, 2007 at 9:05 am

    Maybe I can’t remember it all correctly due to the fact that I was sleeping as I found it quite uninteresting, but what does Ghost in the Shell 2 have to do with this theme?

  3. Kelly says:
    January 28, 2007 at 10:17 pm

    Uh, sci-fi?

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