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For this Friday Movie Night, first up is The Thin Red Line (1998), the WW2 epic of 1998 that isn’t Saving Private Ryan. It follows a regiment of US soldiers during the Guadalcanal campaign of WW2 and their various struggles in the battle against Japan there. This film marked Terence Malick’s return to filmmaking after a twenty-year hiatus, and, as is usual for him, focuses more on dreamlike cinematography and the character’s mental states than on action. Surprisingly, we haven’t watched any Malick yet, but he is otherwise known for Badlands (1973), Days of Heaven (1978), and The Tree of Life (2011). He won a whole bunch of awards for this in ‘98, and got a Best Picture Oscar nomination. Let’s check it out.

After that is Vivre Sa Vie (1962), considered by many to be the magnum opus of one of the most renowned filmmakers of all time, Jean-Luc Godard, whose filmography we have mined a few times (Alphaville [1965], La Chinoise [1967], Band of Outsiders [1964]). He famously did not write a full script for this, instead producing only a single page listing twelve episodes in the life of a young woman (played by Anna Karina) as she descends into prostitution, letting the actors improvise the details until they produced something he liked. This is considered one of the definitive entries in the French New Wave canon. Sounds cool; let’s watch. In case you are wondering, the title is typically translated as “My Life to Live”.

We’ll start at 8PM EST on Hextube, right here:

https://live.hexbear.net/c/movies

Be there, comrades!