I really love how you write about these movies and your life and your family’s life 😃can’t believe Miss Taylor was only 34—well, I wanted to look older too and she always looked older than she was, like a woman when she was, what, 12? I can only watch one Godard movie—the one featuring a Stones recoding session 😃 I love your internalized male gaze because I have it too—I thank Western Civilzation in general for it but Hollywood figures strongly in my life so yeah—I couldn’t finish Contempt. But my attention span is deeply short. Just watched The Lion In Winter again which is brilliantly vicious King Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine—Peter OToole and Kate Hepburn in 1968, when he was 36 and she was 61—based on a play so great writing😃
Ha all of Western civilization, yes. Have you read John Berger's Ways of Seeing? It's partly about this with lots of examples from visual art. It was originally a BBC miniseries, so I guess you could also watch that!
PS thanks for your work and service here—you make me feel and think and laugh🤗
Thank you for the kind words!
I really love how you write about these movies and your life and your family’s life 😃can’t believe Miss Taylor was only 34—well, I wanted to look older too and she always looked older than she was, like a woman when she was, what, 12? I can only watch one Godard movie—the one featuring a Stones recoding session 😃 I love your internalized male gaze because I have it too—I thank Western Civilzation in general for it but Hollywood figures strongly in my life so yeah—I couldn’t finish Contempt. But my attention span is deeply short. Just watched The Lion In Winter again which is brilliantly vicious King Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine—Peter OToole and Kate Hepburn in 1968, when he was 36 and she was 61—based on a play so great writing😃
Also the book Contempt is based on (Contempt by Alberto Moravia) is much better than the movie!
Ha all of Western civilization, yes. Have you read John Berger's Ways of Seeing? It's partly about this with lots of examples from visual art. It was originally a BBC miniseries, so I guess you could also watch that!