Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Points of Contact: The Swimmer


The Swimmer (Perry & Pollack, 1968)

Helas pour moi (Jean-Luc Godard, 1993)
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The Swimmer (Perry & Pollack, 1968)

The Docks of New York (Josef von Sternberg, 1928)

7 comments:

Carson Lund said...

Amazing detective work.

Erich Kuersten said...

Beautifully chosen bra, but where's your awesome wordsmithery?

Drew McIntosh said...

Thanks for the comments, guys.

Erich - sometimes it just feels a little more appropriate to let the images speak for themselves, you know? FWIW I liked the movie very much.

Peter Lenihan said...

I like it too, although I haven't seen it in a few years. I was surprised at how far Lancaster was willing to go here.

Drew McIntosh said...

Peter, it's definitely an emotionally and physically go-for-broke performance. I really liked how layers of the character were peeled away more through things like body language and carriage than chunks of raw exposition. I'm not sure there are many actors who could have pulled that off as expressively as Lancaster does here.

Peter Lenihan said...

btw, my favorite "point of contact" with helas pour moi is with keaton's one week. check it out.

Drew McIntosh said...

I'll keep that in mind, Peter!