Event as always at noon NY time.
Zoom link
https://dcu-ie.zoom.us/j/97662907492?pwd=Z0FxbXJHRVlFNndNY05LWmNZRXU1UT09
Brief Encounter (1945) was called a "domestic noir" and indeed it shares the structure, the embedded social commentary and the visual aesthetics of traditional noirs. It is full of existential angst and foretells doom and loss. One of my all time favorite films.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCt8S-Aio5M
https://bookerhorror.com/brief-encounter-1945-director-david-lean/
Indian Summer !1972), Italian title La prima notte di quiete (the first quiet night, with no dreams, from Goethe) is as existentialist as they come and Alain Delon gives the performance of a lifetime. Note that it is being shown in MOMA in Feb, lucky us in the city:-))
A commentary: ""La Prima Notte di Quiete" is a cold, melancholic, cruel and tragic story, with magnificent performance of Alain Delon, perfectly developing the character of a desperate atheist man in existentialistic crisis. The beautiful cinematography and the music score are cold, as the environment of Rimini, Sonia Petrova is one of the most gorgeous actresses I have ever seen and is also perfect in the role of a young woman with a hidden past. The personal dramas are disclosed and developed in a slow pace and are very sad"
https://ok.ru/video/1767744539334
https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/5398
