Jag är nyfiken - en film i gult (1967)'s comments

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PeacefulAnarchy

That's crazy, this is a great movie.

12 years 7 months ago

jlfitz

Loved the bag contest!

10 years 9 months ago

Timec

Well, it's reassuring to know that someone likes it, since I'll be watching it this week and up until now I'd only heard negative things about it.

12 years 4 months ago

There's a famous Lois Lane story (from Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane #106, November 1970, by Robert Kanigher) called "I Am Curious (Black)" and I always found the title curious indeed, until I discovered the existence of I Am Curious (Yellow). How this controversial Swedish blockbuster (it remained the highest grossing international film in the U.S. for decades) kept its existence from me all these years is a mystery, but I have finally seen (Yellow) and its companion (Blue) and I get that perhaps the film itself fell out of favor once its more shocking aspects were relegated to history. One wonders, in fact, if the big brouhaha about banning it in the U.S. and elsewhere wasn't less about the sex than its effective socialist manifesto. But if it retains any cinematic power today, it must be because of that particular cocktail (pun not intended), tracking Lena Nyman's political AND sexual awakening, and coming out of both are more cynical, disabused person. The experimentalism can be fun - the movie within a movie, blurring the line between documentary, fiction and meta-fiction; the strange asides to camera; the capitalist commercial intrusions - but is often beside the point. Director Vilgot Sjöman, who like Lena, plays himself in the film, has so many ideas, he doesn't know when to stop himself. It's probably why he had to turn his almost 4-hour epic into two films ("the same, but different"). Yellow is the first released and the more potent, a lot more interesting than its place in film history as the "first male full frontal nudity" might reductively indicate. But sheesh, Robert Kanigher, THIS was your inspiration for a silly comic book story?!

1 year 8 months ago