Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Just Five Minutes

La Saraghina from Fellini's 8 1/2 is perhaps my all-time favorite cinematic moment. Aside from wonderful direction and fantastic music, it holds a special place in my life because it helped me understand what great film is. Through most of my teen years, I had fairly bad taste in movies. My dad made every attempt to covert me, constantly nagging me to just sit and watch five minutes of some boring black and white 50s or 60s European film. Any one of these adjectives was enough to turn me off, however, this never stopped him. As I would sit and watch the latest Schwarzenegger vehicle my dad would sit next to me describing the direction, "Two shot, high angle medium shot, cut to closeup, wide shot..." and this would go on until we finally turned off the movie. This was his cue to offer up "just five minutes" or "just one scene" from 8 1/2, Wild Strawberries, The 400 Blows or any other film that he loved. At the time it seemed like unecessary torture but after all these year, I have come to love those same filmmakers and those same five minutes.



**One of my favorite Schwarzenegger moments**
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