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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 <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >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 Outdated.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.