― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 09:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― Crickets Dance On Tequila Booty (Barima), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 09:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― Crickets Dance On Tequila Booty (Barima), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 09:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― frankiemachine, Wednesday, 9 June 2004 09:07 (nineteen years ago) link
If anything, as I said at the time, AB is a sanitized version of 'Blue Velvet'. I can't remember why I said it then, but whatever. I think it has improved in my estimation, anyway, and Lynch has gone down the dumper.
― Enrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 09:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 09:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― Enrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 09:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 09:26 (nineteen years ago) link
What's so English about that? most films are made this way, surely. I do agree it's a bad thing though. i haven't been to the movies for about 4 months ( i used to go maybe twice a week at one point) and can't see the point anymore.
― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 09:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 09:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― Crickets Dance On Tequila Booty (Barima), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 09:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 09:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 09:41 (nineteen years ago) link
What I meant was, content != script. Content *is* visuals. In AB I think the visuals were an adornment to some good line-readings (as Pauline Kael pointed out). I think Gondry and Kaufmann found an amazing way of doing ESOTSM: I can't imagine what the script looked like, but the visuals *are* the story, the process of memory fading is up there on screen. I mean it's horses for courses, but as a marker I remember the weekend I saw it as being freezing cold. It wasn't at all, but the film was so bleak and wintry it got into my bones.
Oh yeah, when I first reviewed AB: 'sex, lies, and videotape' y'all!!! And yes, 'The Ice Storm', definitely (again, a big visual metaphor that works).
― Enrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 09:45 (nineteen years ago) link
I don't see this as characteristically English. Agree it gives the film a certain old-fashioned quality but "essentially cinematic" > "essentially literary" is too lazy a critical cliche. You'd have to throw an awful lot of babies out with that bathwater (the whole of Wilder, for example, not to mention a host of obviously stagey masterpieces like "All About Eve").
― frankiemachine, Wednesday, 9 June 2004 09:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Enrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 09:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 09:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― frankiemachine, Wednesday, 9 June 2004 10:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― Michael B, Wednesday, 9 June 2004 10:10 (nineteen years ago) link
ALTHOUGH I don't think 'The Apartment' is all that stagey, ie the great office scenes (pedants know that these were borrowed from Vidor and Lubitsch). But Wilder certainly did approach material with script paramount, yeah.
― Enrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 10:11 (nineteen years ago) link
a HERO
― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 10:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 10:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 12:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 12:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 12:33 (nineteen years ago) link
i agree w/the person who says it's a "confused" movie. it's about a guy who gives it all up, this whole treadmill of material ambition, and we sneer at his wife's concern for her sofa yet cheer when he buys himself a snazzy convertible.
but the movie "works." the story, confused as it is, as politically nowhere as it is, is well-told. it's the kind of thing audiences used to take for granted in the forties and fifties: pedestrian tales told competently, with a few brilliant moments of performance.
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 12:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 12:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 12:39 (nineteen years ago) link
People say this all the time, and maybe I'm just reading attitudes into him that aren't there, but... are you sure?
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 12:41 (nineteen years ago) link
I know what you mean by this but I must note that I'm not actually a father. Just so Googlers don't get confused
― Matos W.K. in Mpls (M Matos), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 14:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 9 June 2004 14:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 14:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― Crickets Dance On Tequila Booty (Barima), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 14:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 14:47 (nineteen years ago) link
Decent soundtrack, tho'.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 14:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― Crickets Dance On Tequila Booty (Barima), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:19 (nineteen years ago) link
Very similar to Six Feet Under for obvious reasons.
― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:20 (nineteen years ago) link
What do you mean by this?
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:31 (nineteen years ago) link
EVIL
― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― NA (Nick A.), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 15:42 (nineteen years ago) link
(I kid, but wow the "teenagers are working through things but recognize true beauty/have true beauty" bit was overwrought by so many degrees)
― mh, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 17:47 (one year ago) link
American Beauty, Alan BallBeing John Malkovich, Charlie KaufmanMagnolia, Paul Thomas AndersonThe Sixth Sense, M. Night ShyamalanTopsy-Turvy, Mike Leigh
I think the only one of these I could stomach watching these days is Topsy Turvy.
― Motion to adjourn to enjoy a footling (President Keyes), Wednesday, 18 January 2023 17:57 (one year ago) link
well he only ends up dead because the world has conspired against his cool rock n roll rebirth iirc
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 17:57 (one year ago) link
I haven’t seen a really good Sam Mendes film yet. Skyfall was the most superficially impressive just because of some screencap-worthy imagery but the guy can’t direct a dynamic action scene to save his life.
― omar little, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 18:03 (one year ago) link
I haven't your unyielding good taste
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Wednesday, 18 January 2023 18:07 (one year ago) link
New Sam Mendes looks terrible.
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 19 January 2023 11:07 (one year ago) link
The thread where we anticipate Sam Mendes' "Sweeney Todd" movie
Rule: if you want to jump all over this, you have to first pay money to actually see the film. (This will keep me safe.)
― clemenza, Thursday, 19 January 2023 15:53 (one year ago) link
thought the #babylon finale needed a punchup. pic.twitter.com/S0CjeCH679— alex gradet 🐀 (@menace2snacks) February 2, 2023
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Saturday, 4 February 2023 16:32 (one year ago) link