{"id":4999,"date":"2011-06-11T20:35:40","date_gmt":"2011-06-12T03:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/?p=4999"},"modified":"2011-06-14T08:26:11","modified_gmt":"2011-06-14T15:26:11","slug":"midnight-in-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lasvegasbuffetclub.com\/blog\/?p=4999","title":{"rendered":"Midnight in Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"\"facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"google_plus\"<\/a>\"reddit\"<\/a>\"pinterest\"<\/a>\"linkedin\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>by <\/span>\"feather\"<\/a>

Spaniard Luis Bu\u00f1uel <\/a>collaborated with Salvador Dali in the 1920s making one of my all-time favorite films, “Un Chien Andalou<\/a>.” Teen boys will love the eyeball scene in which an apparent human eyeball is slit with a straight-edge razor.

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Un chien andalou<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

Both Bu\u00f1uel and Dali show up again in one of my new favorite films: Woody Allen’s “Midnight in Paris,” this time as themselves. This is perhaps the best film of it’s type since “The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus<\/a>.” They show up in the clubs and salons drinking with Earnest Hemmingway, F Scott & Zelda, Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Jos\u00e9phine Baker, T.S. Elliot, Gertrude Stein and many of the names you’ve read about in art\/literature history classes – about Paris in the 20s. <\/p>\n

Owen Wilson is perfect as a Hollywood writer on holiday in Paris with his soon-to-be and her parents. Like Alice through the Looking Glass, Wilson somehow steps through time and finds himself – not in modern Paris but Paris in The Golden Age, 1920s – 30s. A Grand-automobile stops to pick him up after a night of drinking and motors him to a club where he meets those great artists and writers.<\/p>\n

Adrian Brody kills as Dali and Marian Cotillard is beautifully magnetic and believable as Adriana, Picasso’s lover. The gangs all here: Gertrude Stein (No one but Kathy Bates could have been cast for the role of Gertrude Stein,) Alice B. Toklas, Ernest Hemingway, Cole Porter, Matisse, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, TS Elliot, Gauguin, Man Ray, Degas on and on. Olivier Rabourdin as Paul Gauguin and Corey Stoll as Ernest Hemingway bring a sense of vintage-style and richness to the film. What in the hell does that mean? <\/p>\n

The night scenes are also rich and luscious like the afore-mentioned, “The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus.”
\nSome of the daylight clips seem to be washed-out. Can’t imagine the woodster effing-up. Maybe he had a reason. The only other negative thing about this movie is that it’s too short – 100 minutes.<\/p>\n

Here’s a YouTube of THE SCENE from Un Chien Andalou – The original “shock” movie.
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