Tourist Class
Alexander Payne’s episode of PARIS JE T’AIME, I think by some considerable distance the best thing in that anthology. Obviously, what’s great is the journey from easy laughs to emotional connection to the cathartic sublime.
I’m in Paris again, this time with Fiona. Remind me to tell you why.
Meanwhile, Limericks here and here. And generally all over that site! Must be why it’s called Limerwrecks.
shadowplay 
April 9, 2012 at 3:22 am
Here’s the Best Thing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S_nCSydgsw
April 9, 2012 at 3:24 am
And here’s the second-best
April 9, 2012 at 7:11 pm
And of course there’s THIS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVoDASJ27CQ
April 9, 2012 at 7:12 pm
DRAT!
April 9, 2012 at 7:24 pm
Movie studios ought to stop fighting YouTube — I mean, sure, if the whole movie’s up, take it down, but the opening sequence — that’s just doing their publicity work for them.
April 9, 2012 at 9:08 pm
Mindless bureaucracy gets the stuff taken down, I’m not even sure there’s any genuine human intervention. A lawyer perhaps, but then I repeat myself ;)
April 9, 2012 at 10:42 pm
Wait — It’s Back!
April 9, 2012 at 10:44 pm
What I love about this opening isn’t simply the fact that it’s a letter perfect example of power of montage, it also captures precisely what I feel about Paris. Wandering about it “aimlessly” I never feel alone. The city holds me in my arms like an old high school boyfriend.
April 10, 2012 at 8:03 am
Gustave Moreau Museum today, then meeting with Pathe. Might not get any me-time to feel the city… But first, petit-dejeuner!
April 11, 2012 at 1:14 pm
If your only conception of Paris is Every Obvious Tourist Cliché, reducing the city to a string of picture-postcard images, then that montage might – just conceivably – hold some power. I hope, however, that your high school boyfriend was a little less predictable.
April 11, 2012 at 3:46 pm
Predictablity can be very romantic.
April 11, 2012 at 3:49 pm
As for unpredictability. . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skoHVXrWyc8
April 11, 2012 at 10:59 pm
Good news for Rivette fans — Christine Laurent, his long-time script collaborator, has directed another film, her first since 2006.
I guess Shane isn’t a fan of the Woody Allen… can’t please everybody.
April 12, 2012 at 3:40 am
Not familiar with anoyone in the cast.
April 12, 2012 at 9:58 am
Me neither. The film’s just going out on the festival circuit — I can’t talk about it yet because of my new job at Edinburgh Film Fest.