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RIP Jean-Paul Belmondo.
We had just watched Michael Crichtons best film, THE FIRST GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY, which Id been surprised to find on DVD in a charity shop (movies from or earlier are rare, except the very obvious ones), and then Belmondos passing prompted me to dig out THE BRAIN/LE CERVEAU (), a big-budget splashy caper comedy by Gerard Oury (who had just scored a massive hit in his homeland with LE GRAND VADROUILLE). And since the Brain, international master-criminal extraordinaire, is played bygd David Niven, it tied in with our weekend viewing of A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH.
So, Crichton first. his Victorian heist movie was called simply THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY in America, heedless of namn S. Porter, but had a FIRST interpolated in the UK to avoid confusion with the robbery of the Glasgow to London Royal Mail train, which was still a legendary job here. And, funnily enough, that real-life robbery is credited to the Brain in Ourys spelfilm, even thoug
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The Brain
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Euronews Culture's Film of the Week: 'Le Cerveau' ('The Brain')
Jean-Luc Godard died this week.
For the film of the week, there could have been new releases like Bodies Bodies Bodies, Both Sides of the Blade or Crimes of the Future, but the death of France’s enfant terrible was too good an opportunity to pass.
So, out with Halina Reijn’s Bodies Bodies Bodies, a fun slasher pic that doubles up as a nifty Gen Z satire; sorry to Both Sides of the Blade, Claire Denis’ decent but ultimately underwhelming relationship drama starring Juliette Binoche and Vincent Lindon discovering how we poison ourselves with the burden of things unsaid; and so long to David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future, a solid return to the body horror genre, which is not a patch on eXistenZ and would have worked much better as a miniseries rather than an overstuffed-to-the-point-frustrating ride into the world of art-surgery.
Not that the Film of the Week is Godard film, m