[3] It’s comforting to know that 30 years after their heyday, the madmen of Monty Python still have the power to offend and outrage. In The Meaning of Life [4], these Brit twits tweaked sacred cows so remorselessly that they still leave bruises.
[6] Robert Wise [7] was never an auteur in the sense that Hitchcock, Fellini and Bergman were auteurs. Instead, Wise was a Hollywood director-for-hire who could tackle just about any subject. Some of his movies are classics.
Movies posters are iconic images that frequently make their way into popular consciousness right along with the movie itself. Can you guess the movie from the poster?
[11] Hollywood depictions of the afterlife range from the pious to the ludicrous. Weirdly enough, Albert Brooks’ [12] comedy Defending Your Life [13] rings truer than most.
[15] I practically bawled looking at the Ice Age art on display in Cave of Forgotten Dreams [16], director Werner Herzog's [17] documentary about France's Chauvet-Pon-d'Arc cave [18]. It is that beautiful and moving.
Links:
[1] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/Film+Blog/feed
[2] http://drupal.org/node/11816
[3] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-monty-pythons-meaning-life-1983
[4] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=title:%22Monty+Python%27s+The+Meaning+of+Life%22
[5] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/15627#comment-form
[6] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/robert-wise-film-series-introduction
[7] http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0936404/
[8] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/15724#comment-form
[9] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/guess-movie-4
[10] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/15626#comment-form
[11] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-defending-your-life-1991
[12] http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000983/
[13] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=format:%22dvd%22+title:%22Defending+Your+Life%22
[14] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/15590#comment-form
[15] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/new-dvd-cave-forgotten-dreams-2010
[16] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1664894/
[17] http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001348/
[18] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chauvet_Cave
[19] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/15558#comment-form
[20] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312
[21] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312?page=46
[22] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312?page=43
[23] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312?page=44
[24] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312?page=45
[25] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312?page=48
[26] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312?page=49
[27] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312?page=50
[28] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312?page=51
[29] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312?page=62
