Thanks, Doug. I didn't go to see "Cleo" intent upon writing (in fact I
didn't even try during the first half of the AFI double-bill, Gilliam &
Stoppard's "Brazil"), but once a 14-letter title entered my mind, I thought
why not? Agnes Varda's subsequent work, some of which I was able to
witness during a mini-retrospective at the National Gallery of Art, helped
to elevate "Cleo" for me. Not to mention the dazzling restoration of the
print by Janus Films. I admit my expectation was that this film would
have "faded". Barry
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:24:08 -0600, Douglas Barbour
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>Yes, it does, Barry.
>
>Catching lines on the fly, you do it well....
>
>Doug
>On 29-Aug-07, at 7:01 AM, Barry Alpert wrote:
>
>> CLEO FROM FIVE TO . . .
>>
>> via Agnes Varda
>>
>>
>> Cards said I was ill
>> like a hat like Citroens
>> everyone forgets except me.
>> Outdated. The first time’s better
>>
>> face this
>> ridiculous hat,
>> other people’s fear,
>> music. My precious
>>
>> flavour. Of my lovely life:
>> I’m not on the prowl.
>> Very.
>> Everything
>>
>> today everything amazes me terrified
>> of seeing him in person:
>>
>>
>> Barry Alpert / Silver Spring, MD US / 8-29-07 (8:56 AM)
>>
>>
>> Written intermittently during perhaps my third viewing of Varda’s film.
>> Initially lacking a generative title, I was lucky to devise something
>> appropriate. And somehow or other I seem to have captured the arc of
>> the
>> film--from the opening sequence of the fortune teller’s prediction to
>> the
>> doctor’s confirmation of cancer near the conclusion of the film.
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