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| marantzo |
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| I've read both Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses. I've read Portrait a number of times. I've seen the film versions of both books. I've read reviews of the films and they were pretty well all negative. I really don't know why. I thought the films were very good representations of both books. And very difficult books to tranfer to film. Strick did an excellent job and didn't deserve that kind of reaction. He portrayed the mood and sense of the books very very well. And remarkably, was completely faithful to the story. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 6:02 pm |
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| I'm not sure if you're saying you prefer Portrait to Ulysses, but I do. |
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| Rod |
| Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 6:39 pm |
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The Brown Bunny
is an interesting and lovingly textured mood-piece reflecting on the nature of grief. Its slow, take-the-world-in reflectiveness is counterpointed with what is essentially a mystery of character we wait to be solved. When we discover after the final, breathakingly intimate scene that we've been watching a fantasy that brings about a catharsis of mourning in our hero Bud, it makes sense. Something odd about Chloe Sevigny's dialogue patterns alerted me, and I thought a few of Bud's earlier encounters had a touch of make-believe to them as well. Vincent Gallo works his ass off, Sevigny glows with supernatural emotion.
Gallo mines the tone of American New Wave films like The Rain People, Five Easy Pieces, and particularly Two-Lane Blacktop, almost to the point of aping them, and cross-pollinates with long-take Jarmusch affect, thus conjuring something vital out of thirty years' worth of other film styles. And yeah it had a weird affinity with Broken Flowers, which it's better than in many ways. Overlong and underdeveloped, it might have been better as a short - those older new wave films were, under their surfaces of shimmering alienation, very carefully dramatised works - but this is an affecting and lucid offering from a talented film-maker.
Oh yeah and Sevigny gives Gallo a blow-job. My only comment on this is that I hope in the sequel he's got the good grace to go down on her. |
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| jeremy |
| Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 7:34 pm |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 7:48 pm |
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Rod wrote:
Oh yeah and Sevigny gives Gallo a blow-job. My only comment on this is....
Love the ho-hum quality of this. Oh, yeah, another blowjob in a semi-mainstream flick by a name actress. |
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| mo_flixx |
| Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 7:51 pm |
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billyweeds wrote: Rod wrote:
Oh yeah and Sevigny gives Gallo a blow-job. My only comment on this is....
Love the ho-hum quality of this. Oh, yeah, another blowjob in a semi-mainstream flick by a name actress.
CF: FIRST NAME: CARMEN. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 8:22 pm |
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| Earl |
| Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 8:57 pm |
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| I recall that Roger Ebert famously panned The Brown Bunny after its Cannes screening. He and Gallo exchanged barbs through the media, but subsequently came to a truce, of sorts, after Ebert viewed a re-edited version of the film and bumped up his rating of it to three stars. |
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| Earl |
| Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 9:01 pm |
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Curiosity got the better of me. Here is Ebert's review of the movie..
In it he discusses the two versions he saw and why the re-edited version is vastly superior. |
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| Rod |
| Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 8:12 am |
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| I just watched the original The Thomas Crown Affair. Starts off well, with a smattering of mod style, but finishes up devoid of interesting plot and degenerates into a string of high-class '60s ads for dune buggies, designer sweaters, and various tourist boards. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 8:52 am |
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Rod wrote: I just watched the original The Thomas Crown Affair. Starts off well, with a smattering of mod style, but finishes up devoid of interesting plot and degenerates into a string of high-class '60s ads for dune buggies, designer sweaters, and various tourist boards.
This was a case where the remake was much better. McQueen and Dunaway had zilch chemistry. That chess scene was not sexy; it was, in fact, borderline ick. Also, McQueen just didn't fit the three-piece-suit character. He always worked better in jeans.
Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo, on the other hand, were terrific. (I have never liked Russo before or since, but here she was funny and sexy.) Brosnan seems totally comfortable in high style duds and the whole thing played looser and more amusing. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 9:02 am |
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| lady wakasa |
| Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 9:41 am |
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| Isn't there a copyright problem with that? (There was a bit on the news this morning about Google getting sued by Viacom because of YouTube.) |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 9:53 am |
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lady wakasa wrote: Isn't there a copyright problem with that? (There was a bit on the news this morning about Google getting sued by Viacom because of YouTube.)
For some reason Plan 9 is apparently now in public domain. |
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| lady wakasa |
| Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 10:16 am |
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