Pull up a chair for a nice long chat with the most erudite Mutt and Jeff in cinema history: André Gregory and Wallace Shawn, whose into-the-night ruminations on the state of the world and their own happiness made for one of the most invigorating conversations ever captured on film. Louis Malle’s My Dinner with André is now out on Criterion DVD, and to whet your appetite, here’s Amy Taubin’s new essay on the film, in which she looks at the men who made this terrific meal.
One thing Resnais and Robbe-Grillet did agree on was the key to understanding and enjoying their enigmatic Last Year at Marienbad: just watch it.
A fresh look at Ingmar Bergman’s “earthshaking classic” The Seventh Seal finds the humor lurking just below the gloomy surface of this “droll, quizzical masterpiece.”
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