Eulogy for the Little Red Envelope and homage to a movie lover..
My father who passed away at 93 in 2015 was a lover of film.. Yes I remember he spoke of movies only this way. It was kind of cool. Knowone else I knew used the term.. It just sounded very important.. like the rest of the world went to the movies .. but he saw A FILM. He had shelves and shelves of his own collection some mostly in VHS and then gradually DVDs He was always talking about the latest foreigh films froms directors Truffeau, Antonioni, Bunuel and Bergman and Jean Luc Godard.. He was a writer by trade but often told me wistfully that maybe he would have made a great director. I can still remember the reverie from which he spoke about Robert Altman and McCabe and Mrs Miller, Arthur Penn director of Bonnie and Clyde.. “Its the director” he would say resolutely, the director is the one to watch.”
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