1983年法國電視上出現了一個節目Une minute pour une image。一張存在於電視上的單幅靜態影像，在一分鐘的時間內被加諸旁白。而言說影像者包羅萬象，解讀與論述當然各不相同。簡而言之，影像是被無限多個"這是......."所解釋。
This film is now being exhibited as the middle section of a trilogy of documentaries about photography Ms. Varda has done over her career as Ciné Vardaphoto. If you get a chance to see any of the three you will be engaged into a vibrant examination of what is photography, memory, history, and the artistic process. Be prepared to think, and revel in one woman's amazing ability to constantly provoke us to examine and re-examine our human condition. Ulysse itself uses one particular photo the direc...
紧接著的《纪录说谎家》（Documenteur /1981）则是被 Varda 称为是《墙的呢喃》的阴影的影片，因为相较於前者的阳光普照和色彩艳丽，《纪录说谎家》所呈现的则是一个阴霾的洛衫矶。我们一样看到加州的街头壁画，讲的却是身体的分离，是一个身体和另一个身体的分离，也是身体和自己的分离。
The French director Agnes Varda spent a couple of different years in Los Angeles, and this particular year produced her documentary "Murs, murs" and her fiction film "Documenteur". The title means "Walls, walls", but also puns with the word "murmurs." Varda located dozens of murals around LA and filmed them. Many of these are gone today, so this is a true documentary, documenting a wonderful aspect of southern Californian visual culture. She interviews the artists, a truly multicultural and mult...
The film is about lives of shopkeepers living on the same street. They were asked the same questions-When did they move here? How did each of them meet their spouse? What is their dream? The film also shows their daily lives-opening the shop, attending to customers, doing their jobs.
The person who impresses me the most in this film is the lady of the perfume shop, whose name I'm not sure if it's Marcele or not. She is really outstanding. She talks the least in this film. She smiles the least. ...
Sidney Lumet's "the group"(from Mary McCarthy) was,in its own special way,some kind of woman's lib manifesto.Here the group is a two-person team but we see them live during a pretty long time,from 1962 to the mid-seventies.It's interesting to notice that abortion was legal in France only in 1975,thanks to minister Simone Veil.
Agnès Varda's last feature film was "les creatures" a work for highbrows."L'une chante,l'autre pas" is a return to an accessible ,more palatable style.All things woman's ...
What is it like to be a woman in 1975? This is the question Agnès Varda is trying to answer 'Réponse de Femmes', in a style quite characteristic of the politically committed cinema of the 1960's and 1970's. This short could accordingly be awfully outdated but for Varda's ability to turn a series of boring slogans into a stimulating experience, inventive and poetic as her findings are.
In what she calls a 'ciné-tract', in fact a short made for French TV, Varda has various female persons, ranging...
回到法国之後，她为电视台拍了一部纪录／剧情影片–《诺西卡》(Nausicaa /1970)，片中描述一位法国女学生与一位希腊知识份子之间的爱情故事。其中穿插了一些对希腊流亡法国之异议人士的访问，谈及他们对希腊的政治和独裁政权的看法。由於父亲的关系，Varda 认为自己向来与希腊之间存在著一份必需去了结的纠葛，因此才有这部影片的诞生。但也是因为政治上的考量，这部影片并没有在电视上播映过，仅於1970年布鲁赛尔的一个影展上，以尚未完成剪接的状况下放映过。
影片改编自埃文.威尔斯发表于1993年的同名小说。主人公马克年龄不大但毒瘾很深，和他同住的西蒙、丹尼尔和埃莉森亦属同类。埃莉森的小女儿是她与另外三人中的一个所生。他们不想工作又不想失去失业津贴。马克在舞厅结识黛安，当晚到女孩家里过夜，但第二天早上看到黛安穿上校服才知道她才14岁。马克偷走汤米与丽兹做爱的录像带，丽兹却以为是汤米把带子卖了钱。马克被父母锁在家里戒毒，然后到伦敦谋生。但西蒙接踵而至。因为他受到了通缉。他们倒卖毒品，赚了一大笔钱。当天夜里，马克趁大家熟睡之机携款而逃，不过他把丹尼尔的一份留在...
故事讲述18岁印度青年贾马尔·马里克，一个在印度孟买贫民窟长大的孤儿，只差一个问题就能拿到令全国观众疯狂的节目“百万富翁”二千万卢布奖金，但这时他却被捕了，他被怀疑作弊--没受过教育的孤儿为何能答对所有连博士专家都没把握全中的问题？为了证明自己的清白，他向警察讲述了他奇妙又令人不可置信的成长故事，以及他深爱的女孩……一个视钱财如粪土的人参与“百万富翁”的目的是甚么？他如何得知全部答案？
The movie is totally a waste of precious time unless you are a great fan of any of the actors involved or like to see news clips of the 60's in California. The best part is the first part of the movie showing a scene out of a play "the Beard" with Billie Dixon and Richard Bright, but that is just about all you are going to see of Richard Bright. There seems to be no structure, no set script. I think anybody could have done a better job with other wanna be actors and a camcorder. I cant believe t...
I hadn't seen any of Agnes Varda's films until I caught The Gleaners and I a few months ago at a film festival. I loved it, mainly because of Varda's extremely personal aproach to some interesting material and questions. I was recently doing some research on sixties activism when I stumbled across Black Panthers, Varda's 1968 documentary about the Black Panther Party.
The 30 minute long film looks at a rally to free the party's leader, Huey P. Newton. There's no pretense of objectivity -- the B...
In this year of Bush vs. Kerry, when the campaign turns on issues of patriotism and war service, it is fascinating to go back to the Vietnam war to see the conflicts that rent American society of that time. The genesis of the film is interesting: the French public had been asked to give up a day's wages to help the Vietnamese people; finding this insufficient, Chris Marker had the idea of making a sketch film to protest the war. The problem is that the project was a collective effort: there are ...
I just wanted to say I truly love this film and I do believe there will be a great deal of different opinions on it. My point in this post is that I have read in many places that the English language version of this film was never released and/or it's lost. This is not true at all as the first time I watched it was in English on television, late night during a stay in Brazil, with Portuguese subtitles. The catchphrase of "Je vais en Nantes, Je vais en perm' a Nantes" translated to "I'm going to ...
Agnes Varda went to San Francisco to promote her film "Les Creatures". Tom Luddy on Pacific Film Archives told her : "There is a man called Varda on a boat in Sausalito. Are you related?". "I dont know, lets find out" Agnes Varda replied.
They went there on a thursday and met this Yanco (Jean Varda) who was the cousin of her fathers. So she made this little movie about this old man, living on a boat with his hippie friends, making a living as a painter.
因此，她这个小电影老人，生活在船上，他...
