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Claude Lévi-Strauss died!

Claude Lévi-Strauss was still alive!

I fail current events.

(In other news, I am returned from Providence, where there was pizza and much late-night conversation with readingthedark, and last night Viking Zen and I watched Volver (2006), my first film by Almodóvar. I liked it. Today I am back to raking the lawn.)

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[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Claude Lévi-Strauss was still alive!

That was PRECISELY the response wakanomori and I had.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Claude Lévi-Strauss was still alive!

That was my reaction as well.

Glad you're home safely, and that it sounds as if you've had a good time. Good luck with the lawn-raking!

[samhenderson.livejournal.com]

I was stunned that he was still alive, too!

[readingthedark.livejournal.com]

It was lovely to see you.

[ewein2412]

this post makes me laugh and laugh.

[sovay]

It was lovely to see you.

You, too.

[tithenai.livejournal.com]

Claude Lévi-Strauss died!

Claude Lévi-Strauss was still alive!

*giggleFIT* I only learned a few months ago that he was still alive.

[madwriter.livejournal.com]

Yeah...don't feel too bad, I've enjoyed his work and also didn't realize he was still alive. But when you know someone was born 100 years ago and they're not at least semi-regularly in the public eye like George Burns and Bob Hope still were in their late 90s to 100, there's some allowance for forgiveness. :)

[kerrickadrian.livejournal.com]

Me too, me too! I posted that he had died, when I found out, and someone (probably someone who didn't know who he was) made a sort of canned "oh how sad" comment, and I felt like saying "No! Not sad! Impressive!"

[ericmvan.livejournal.com]

No previous Almodovar? I had Volver as my 6th favorite of the 38 films from 2006 that I saw. But I liked his 2002 film, Hable con ella (Talk to Her), even better; in fact, it's one of my 55 favorite films of all time, and was so good that I instantly labeled him a favorite director. It is his highest-rated film on IMDB and it may be his biggest hit with the critics, too. I would love to show it you some time.

I somehow missed his intervening film, Bad Education, and will be eager to see Broken Embraces when it opens in December.

Many of his baker's dozen previous films are hard to come by on DVD, and only two seem to be as well regarded as his recent ones: 1988's Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, which established his reputation in this country, and 1999's All About My Mother (which immediately preceded Talk to Her). Those two are high on my long list of films to see.

[sovay]

this post makes me laugh and laugh.

Heh. Thank you. I like the icon.

[sovay]

No previous Almodovar?

No previous Almodóvar. I had known who he was, but not in any specific way. Now I do.

It is his highest-rated film on IMDB and it may be his biggest hit with the critics, too. I would love to show it you some time.

I look forward to it.

Many of his baker's dozen previous films are hard to come by on DVD, and only two seem to be as well regarded as his recent ones:

That doesn't incline me against seeing them, you realize. A Canterbury Tale is not as critically well-regarded as The Red Shoes, and we know how that one turned out.

1988's Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, which established his reputation in this country, and 1999's All About My Mother (which immediately preceded Talk to Her).

Viking Zen has seen and liked Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, with which she noted some similarities to Volver; I know nothing about All About My Mother, but I note it also has Penélope Cruz, so, cool.

[sovay]

But when you know someone was born 100 years ago and they're not at least semi-regularly in the public eye like George Burns and Bob Hope still were in their late 90s to 100, there's some allowance for forgiveness.

This also happened to me in 2005 with Christopher Fry.

[jtglover.livejournal.com]

Same reaction. I assumed he was simply too august, and referred to in such exalted language, that he could not possibly still draw breath.

[ewein2412]

thanks!