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From: Dale Houstman <dmh7@citilink.com>
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Subject: Re: Best surrealistic directors / movies?
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 07:39:44 -0600
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john adams wrote:
> "Parry" <parry@perfectOMITmail.com> wrote in message
> news:4033F095.FCE@perfectOMITmail.com...
>
>>Andreas Moss wrote:
>>
>>>Thanks for a GREAT answer Parry.
>>>Well, surrealism or surrealistic.. I don't really care. To me its just a
>>>keyword to finding movies I seem to enjoy. (Even though I would argue on
>>>early Lynch not being surrealism.., but thats not important..)
>>>
>>>May I add some questions?
>>>
>>>1. Why is Jean Cocteau a joke? I haven't seen anything with him, but I
>>
> heard
>
>>>he's done some good movies? Could you elaborate?
>>
>>He's a director who, in ancient times, would wrongly be labeled
>>"surrealist." Surrealists hate him for being a pretentious,
>>religionistic "fake poet."
>
>
> I still think Blood of a Poet is great now and especially for its time.
>
> "..."
>
I think he made several interesting films, including "Beauty and the
Beast" and "L'Enfants Terribles" but after reading his memoirs, I
discovered he was an appalling lover of Nazi parties, luxury, and
celebrities, a social-climber, and an elitist aesthete.
dmh
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