Comments on: Better Than Coffee: “The Red Balloon”

By: m trucco

m trucco — Mon, 11 May 2009 18:26:36 +0000

http://tr.youtube.com/watch?v=yWFL1oLnjQk

By: Mer

Mer — Mon, 11 May 2009 13:00:48 +0000

DRGBL.

By: Nathaniel Johnstone

Nathaniel Johnstone — Thu, 07 May 2009 04:02:08 +0000

I’d never seen the movie but I had a book adaptation of this when I was small. It was a bunch of stills from the film with the narrations and dialog in easy English for the young reader.

I had no idea it was a movie until just now. Thank you for posting this!

By: choklit

choklit — Tue, 05 May 2009 00:54:04 +0000

Did anyone watch the recent film homage to the classic, with Juliette Binoche, Flight of the Red Balloon? I haven't seen it but was intrigued. Travesty or transcendent?

By: Tequila

Tequila — Tue, 05 May 2009 00:10:51 +0000

@Mer…Same. I remember an auditorium full of kids who all were dead silent by the end of the film. The print I remember was much less colorful though. It wasn’t till I bought the Criterion release of this and the directors other masterpiece White Mane that I saw how colorful this film really was.

Criterion has some really good essays about the film on their site worth reading. The first one being completely dead on.

http://www.criterion.com/films/886

By: Shay

Shay — Mon, 04 May 2009 19:52:04 +0000

I have a very vague memory of this… Uncanny.

By: Fritz Bogott

Fritz Bogott — Mon, 04 May 2009 15:48:09 +0000

A) Someone needs to do a Ballon Rouge vs. Mon Oncle mashup STAT!

B) (Me, in lotus position, chanting) Dirigible. Houseboat. Dirigible. Houseboat…

By: Mer

Mer — Mon, 04 May 2009 15:29:43 +0000

Yep… I first saw it in 1st grade…it’s unforgettable.

By: Nadi

Nadi — Mon, 04 May 2009 15:24:00 +0000

aww i almost forgot about this movie!

By: Zoetica

Zoetica — Mon, 04 May 2009 15:12:13 +0000

Awww! I remember this from childhood.