From BREATHLESS to Hyperventilating for 87 Minutes

We first blogged about the fully restored 50th anniversary version the film BREATHLESS a couple months back, but wasn't really banking on the possibility of it ever reaching our corner of the Pacific.

This is going to be my bookmarker for the next, I don't know, 100 years.

So when co-blogger Dana and I heard it was getting a one-week run at Kahala 8, we got ourselves in line faster than you could shout "New York Herald Tribune" (my official 2010 Halloween costume suggestion to all you pixie-cut lassies).

Speaking of the pay-pahs, A.O. Scott of the New York Times described the re-release as "an immaculate and glowing new print" and by Bogart was he right. Seeing Seberg ask, "Why are you so sad?" and Belmondo deadpan "Because I am" on the silver screen, couldn't've made me more the opposite of sad. And that 25 minute bedroom scene reminded me why I watch movies in the first place because I basically live for that 25 minute bedroom scene. The screening has also inspired me to (and by "me", I mean "ask Dana to") screen print Jean-Pierre Melville's cameo answer to Seberg's journalistic inquiry of his greatest life ambition onto a t-shirt: "To become immortal, and then die." Ugh, why is this movie so good?

Jaloux? (Oh, I'm sorry, that's "jealous?" in French. DOUBLE JALOUX??)

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