So it goes.
So, I'm James, but you can call me Bubba if it's that important to you. I'm a Film and Video Studies major as well as a Journalism major. I write a lot and sometimes I make little movies. Someday I hope to make big movies. I enjoy film and television. Also video games. And the internet. Also I have a great girlfriend Named Melanie, who I have been with for a very long time.
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L’Atalante Jean Vigo
This was a great little film. Made by Vigo as he was sick with tuberculosis, he actually directed several scenes from bed. It is about a young married couple who live on a boat with an older man and a young boy. The married couple has to figure out how to make their relationship work and how to accept and deal with each others faults. Its a really great, and a really mature film for one made by a 29 year old. It is also really fucking funny when it wants to be and very sad when it wants to be. Over all, this is a really great film. I thoroughly enjoyed it and if you’re okay with old foreign films, you definitely will too. Highly recommended.
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Zéro De Conduite Jean Vigo
This was the third film from Vigo, it was a 44 minute short about several boys in a boarding school that decide to lead a revolt. It is funny and a really easy watch. It definitely seems like a fore runner to Truffaut’s The 400 Blows, as well as lots of boarding school films. I would highly recommend this film.
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Taris Jean Vigo
This is Vigo’s second film, it was a nine minute short documentary that he was commissioned to make about a French olympic swimmer. it’s half documentary and half instruction swimming video, and he uses several camera techniques and and tricks to make some fun effects to keep it interesting. It was fun and it was only nine minutes, so I’d recommend it.
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A Propos De Nice Jean Vigo
This was the first of a Criterion Collection blu ray that I got for christmas that had all the films of Jean Vigo. Jean Vigo was this brilliant filmmaker that has inspired countless directors and other people. Her only ever made four films in France in the 30s before he died of tuberculosis at 29.
This was his first, it’s 22 minutes, and it’s a bit experimental and a bit surreal, but the themes he is playing with and exploring are really great. Its sort of a travelogue of the city of Nice. He uses a combination of hidden camera stuff and staged stuff to try and evoke the fear that people will eventually get to where they can’t really distinguish between real life and whats in the movies, as well as playing with different camera speeds and types of score to evoke different feelings in the audience. Its really great and you should watch it.
