Day 132: Renoir is a great director + Bad Meets Good and Scottie Meets the Tramp

Renoir is a great director & his book on how he got started is – um – great

Reading, reading, reading. This book is amazing, amazing, amazing.

Bad Meets Good and Scottie Meets the Tramp

Most of today was taken up with thinking and writing about Badlands (1973). It’s a highly regarded first feature by twenty-nine-year old Terrence Malick featuring a twenty-two-year old Sissy Spacek and a thirty-one-year old Martin Sheen.

It places this film within a curious context of three undeniably important films (City Lights, Modern Times and Vertigo), by two of the most influential directors (Hitchcock and Chaplin), containing two great stars (James Stewart and Charlie Chaplin) and one great actress (Sissy Spacek).

That’s a big week to digest.

I’ve written down a lot of notes about Vertigo and Badlands and absolutely nothing about Chaplin.

Oh! And a lot more about Jean Renoir. I’m only up to the end of World War I and I am mesmerized by his life.

Thursday 9 November 2017 1859pm

Renoir is a great director & his book on how he got started is – um – great

Reading, reading, reading. This book is amazing, amazing, amazing.