I hope everyone had a nice thanksgiving break! Today we started Mean Streets (1973), it’s going to be fun.
La Grande Illusion
People likely to read this will already know, but Targets was finished. Bobby was arrested in the end, after being caned by Boris Karloff (that was the classic part).
Interspersed between then and now were The Perfect Crime (2004), which some argue was not a classic film and others that it was practically pornography, and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.
We are now on La Grande Illusion, a film Jean Renoir, son of Renoir the painter. It’s a surreal look at the veil of civility that covered the true brutality of WWI. Trust me, it’s interesting, come see it. I’ll leave it up to the other presidents to actually tell what the movie is about.
