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This may be old news, but it’s new to me: at Rotten Tomatoes, in 2008, on the eve of the first “Twilight” release, Jen Yamato asked Robert Pattinson …

This may be old news, but it’s new to me: at Rotten Tomatoes, in 2008, on the eve of the first “Twilight” release, Jen Yamato asked Robert Pattinson to name his five favorite movies; number three on the list turned out to be Jean-Luc Godard’s “First Name: Carmen,” which, moreover, he referenced by its French title, “Prénom Carmen,” and discussed in enthusiastic detail: In terms of just pure filmmaking and manipulating an audience, it kind of starts out as a farce, as a complete, stupid farce, with this bank robbery; but it’s really, really…Godardian, with kind of a stupid humor that’s so…

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