>I don't know about Breathless in the sense of showing it to
>somebody to teach them cinematography. To me the
>cinematography in Breathless was soo good because it broke
>every rule in the book.

It's soo good, but you wouldn't recommend it?

I think it's okay if it broke all the rules.

I mean James Joyce broke all the rules about writing novels, but I would still recommend Ulysses to someone wanting to know about great novels.

>But really all you need is L'Avventura as a
>reference guide in my mind.

Well that ain't exactly "normal" either.

But I love it.

You're a pretty big Antonioni fan aren't you?

Me too though. I'm with you on that one.

But I think as far as "reference guides" go, you'd probably want to look at Gregg Toland's work. Especially Citizen Kane (which broke as many rules as Breathless in its day). And you'd probably want to look at Jean Renoir's "The Rules Of The Game". Rules would show you "how to" and also "why to".

>Also I finally saw The Passion
>the other
>day and I thought that movie did a very nice job
>in terms of various POV shots.

I haven't seen it. I don't want to either. The last thing I want to see is a movie about Jesus directed by a right-wing looney.