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The Complete Varda 9 – Mur Murs

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Mur murs | Documenteur | Wexner Center for the Arts

On the ninth episode, Matt and Travis discuss Varda’s documentary on the murals of Los Angeles, Mur Murs. Created virtually simultaneously with the fictional film Documenteur,  Mur Murs is a portrait of Los Angeles as a concrete landscape dotted with organic beauty from unusual origins. We discuss the film’s depiction of this much misunderstood city and in particular its marginalized communities that get to shine here, along with Varda’s evolving relationship with the documentary form she has developed throughout her career.

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The Complete Varda 5 – Lions Love… and Lies

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Lions Love And Lies | The New Yorker

On the fifth episode of the Complete Varda, Matt and Travis discuss another of Varda’s unique explorations, 1969’s Lions Love (…and Lies was added at some point after the initial release). Filmed during Varda’s first stint in Los Angeles, the movie is largely formless and flirts with the line between documentary and fiction in a way that would define much of Varda’s later work. We discuss these fascinating new areas of exploration, and also cover the two shorts Varda made during this time in northern California, Uncle Yanco and The Black Panthers.

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The Complete Varda 4 – Les Creatures

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Catherine Deneuve and Agnes Varda at the Venice Film Festival for presentation of the film Les

On the fourth episode of the fifth season, Matt and Travis welcome their first guest of the season, the eternally wise and effortlessly cool David Blakeslee of Criterion Reflections, to discuss one of Agnès Varda’s most unusual and idiosyncratic films, 1966’s Les Creatures. We discuss the unusual status of the film as Varda’s most commercial and most experimental movie, along with the film’s context within the larger FNW sci-fi adventures of the mid to late 60s.

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