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Under the Roofs of Paris (1930)
Faces belie words;
looks undermine gestures;
such a dance ensues
between lovers and strangers
within a block of
crowded tenements.
Penultimately,
sophisticated sound
ricochets like bullets
off an even more
sophisticated silence;
classy shadows
beguile the eye, as
adult urchins wrestle
within rolling puffs
of smoke
obscuring the gaze--
first artfully,
then almost completely;
as the sound-scuffle plays
against a black screen, you
wait
in darkness
for an ending
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Opening scene of the film:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf4wUmBM6gk&feature=PlayList&p=757ADA8136927443&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=94
The Purpose of this Blog...
Originally, it was "To watch all the important films in World Cinema and write something intelligent in response."
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Originally, it was "To watch all the important films in World Cinema and write something intelligent in response."
It was an ambitious goal, and I was making some progress. I have slowed down considerably. This is still meant to be a blog of poetry about film. I may add some trivia or prose. I just added a poem about a cable series. It is an evolving project.
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Monday, June 29, 2009
Under the Roofs of Paris (1930)
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