The 400 Blows (1959)
The other night, I had Turner Classic Movie (TCM) channel on. It started to show Francois Truffaut’s "The 400 Blows" (1959). Film buff friends of mine have waxed poetically about all the French New Wave directors like Truffaut and until now I had avoided them all. I just thought that these "great" movies were 90 minutes of French people sitting around drinking coffee and smoking – and that’s it. The film started and I promised to turn the channel when I got bored. 99 minutes later I realized I did watch a great film. The 400 Blows isn’t a typical artsy fartsy French film.
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I finally watched Prometheus for the 2nd time the other night. It was actually my first time all the way through. The first time I stopped watching just as the cast started exploring the alien structure because I got bored. After watching the complete film from start to the end I can say that this is a decent movie if you have no prior knowledge of the “Alien” mythology.
Sometime ago I posted about my favorite year – 1976. 
