random shishkababbles ...


Random thoughts ...

-I couldn't stop thinking about Antonioni in this film, not only because I've heard Ribisi talk about he and his friends "wanting to make movies like Antonioni" on the Boiler Room audio track, but because of the dreamy, or rather dream like, sequences and flow.

-In Crimes and Misdemeanors, Woody and Mia Farrow sit down to watch singing in the rain. This film was central to I Love Your Work.

-A big influence on I Love Your Work -- De Sica. Naturally, they went to see The Bicycle Thief in Stardust Memories. Neorealism. Which, if I'm not mistaken was the title of one of Goldberg's films.

On we go.

-Stadust blooming Memories, which he says in the commentary was the film that changed his life.

-First scene of Stardust Memories ... black and white. Train. Trains. Missing the train. Same with Gray Evans in the opening clip.

-A celebrated director and a celebrated actor ... including scenes with various assistants and the like. In Stardust, they offered Sandy a valium; Here Gray is offered Vicodin by his PAs. The assistants in both talking about changed appointments with doctors etc ...

-Gray's relationship with Christina, may or may not have taken place. He is often thinking about it. Woody Allen's character imagine virtually everything in his film, from the moment of the rabit burning. This includes his relationship with the French girl Isabel (who looks and sounds so much like Julie Delpy I can understand how Goldberg was drawn to her years ago, considering Stardust Memories is his bible and he has a movie poster of it framed over his headboard!).

-The couple befriended in the video store are eerily similar in everything including appearance to the film professor and his girlfriend in Stardust Memories. John played by Josh Jackson, and Jack in Stardust.

-Interesting also to me that Charlotte Rampling in this film does not speak with an English accent if you close your eyes sounds just like Famke's voice in Work. I wonder if he choose her based on her tone alone.

-Finally, Daniel Stern walks up to Woody in the hotel and says, "I love you work."

This film was an homage ... to many great films ... and would have been great if not for the terrible scenes at the end.

At any rate, the whole movie was imagined by Ribisi while he/Ricci are at the cinema.



"Did anyone read on the front page of the Times that matter is decaying?"

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You're definitely on point with the Antonioni mention. You notice the name of the band playing at the gallery for Jane's display was Blow-Up? (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060176/)

I appreciate the insight about the Stardust Memories references too. I've gotta re-watch that & then ILYW again.

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