Sunday, January 2, 2011

My Sunday Film Festival - DOUBLE TAKE

No... not the DOUBLE TAKE with Orlando Jones and Eddie Griffin. I'm talking about DOUBLE TAKE by Belgian director Johan Grimonprez.

Grimonprez has managed to merge a short story by Jorge Luis Borges, called 25th August, 1983, with various clips and footage of Alfred Hitchcock to make a film that is both poetic and frustrating. It reminded me of Orson Welles's F IS FOR FAKE.

Both films play more as essays than they do as documentaries, and both films center around two big round men with big round personalties.


Check out this scene from DOUBLE TAKE.



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