Monday, July 17, 2017

Auteur Watch - Dyana Gaye

It's hard sometimes to make a feature-length movie.  Hence you get things like Aria or Four Rooms or the Je t'aime series that everyone just... just loves to see.  In Dyana's case, she's got two of them.  The first was 2005's Paris la métisse.  I guess this is a trailer for it on YouTube.  The second is called Africa First: Volume One from 2011, and her Saint Louis Blues from 2009 is a part of it.  And yes, it's the Saint Louis of Senegal, not Missouri fame.  Now, you're probably asking yourself, but The Movie Hooligan!  IF that's your real name... what about Volume Two?  Well, don't worry!  I'll put the link to it here!  ...or over yonder, I don't know.  Of course, it's got that dreaded (Video) after it, but on the bright side it's got five short films instead of four.
But just as Dylan went electric... ask your grandparents... so too did Dyana Gaye eventually leave the world of short films far behind her.  With 2013's Under the Starry Sky, she graduated to feature length features.  Now, according to the IMDb, Des étoiles is 1 hour 27 minutes in duration.  But according to this YouTube link, which may be taken down soon now that I've pointed it out... the film is only one hour, eight minutes and twenty seconds.  Now, you're probably asking yourself, but The Movie Hooligan!  IF that's your real name... what about those missing 18 minutes and 40 seconds?  Oh, it's Nixon all over again, I tells ya.  Well, we may never know the answer, and I certainly haven't heard anything about it from the creepy Russ... I mean, damn "furners" that follow me around everywhere.  Maybe they cut out some norti bits to get it down to a PG-13 rating, who knows.  And while Dyana doesn't seem to have her own YouTube channel yet, she's all over that thing in her own right!  Why, look at this one!  And that one!  And that one!  You go, grrl.

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