... that ... did ... what ... Cary Grant was certainly mooted as a Bond, but wasn't interested. According to Lehman, N by NW was written with both Stewart and...
... agree ... on ... One source of confusion is the various usages of "ideology": ideology as false consciousness, ideology as lived experienced, ideology as ...
... I just can't picture Stewart in North by Northwest. In the same way I can't picture Warren Beatty in What's New, Pussycat? -- which I didn't know about...
... It does indeed. Far more effective politically are films like "Force of Evil" and "The Big Night" -- not to mention my all-time favorite political film...
... with Warren Beatty, the movie would just ... And the title of that documentary is "Shampoo." __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail...
... putting ... Bombing comes with the package of humanitarian intervention. ... Gratitude, sure. But for electing Nixon, or electing Bush by a smaller margin...
... You said it! Maybe that's why SHAMPOO never struck me as funny. There's nothing inherently comic about Beatty as stud - the only irony is for a hairdresser...
... It wasn't unattractive in period. Remember, it takes place in '68. Moreover"Shampoo" is only situationally funny. It's a deadly serious film about politics...
... I'm a big Germi fan, but I think I'm a bit less impressed with his pre-60s work than you are. THE RAILROAD MAN is strong, and I kind of like some of the...
... I just saw CLASS RELATIONS, and I think that maybe I liked it (a typical reaction when I see Straub-Huillet films - liking seems almost beside the point)....
... Impossible to forget it, with Sgt Peppers playing at every party! A nice touch which I'm assured is accurate. ... Although - Fellini is an exception, his...
... Donald Ritchie says (in the documentary Akira Kurosawa: The Last Emperor by Alex Cox) that it was David Lean whom Kurosawa expected to be shooting the US...
... if ... off ... History Lessons might relate to Elizabeth Nolan's comments about human action, in that in shows how Julius Caesar -- a great man of action...
... Grant ... better ... I can't either, but he was AH's number 2 choice. It would certainly have highlighhted the parallels to Vertigo, which was shot while ...
... made is ... close ... films ... it. ... typical ... beside ... I'd have to look at it carefully -- it's not one big thing they did; rather, it's how every...
... I couldn't disagree more. "The Way of Hope" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042301/ is a crucially important neo-realist film. In point of fact I would argue...
... getting a ... I hadn't heard that the Straubs actually screened Othon for workers -- they said they made it for that audience, though. There's nothing in ...
... wrote: Four million Vietnamese were killed, but it got ... I heard three, but I heard it from Milius when I interviewed him for l'Huma. Anyway, Vietnam...
... -- ... Here's something from Barton Byg's book. "Martin Schaub, writing in 1976, takes the most extreme position against Straub/Huillet's claim to...
... wrote: "Donald Ritchie says (in the documentary Akira Kurosawa: The Last Emperor by Alex Cox) that it was David Lean whom Kurosawa expected to be shooting...
... <pgallagher4@n...> ... for ... 47,378 Americans, 223,748 South Vietnamese ARVN, 4,407 South Koreans, 469 Australians, 351 Thais, and 55 New Zealanders were...
... workers ... (in ... than a ... waging.'" This may be garbling of something they siad in the Cahiers interview at the time. I never actually heard of it...
Mention was made during the Kubrick discussion of Michel Chion's slightly strange (and strained) analysis of the role of the (in his opinion) to-be-born child...
... That's an interesting idea. It makes "Attack of the Clones" more interesting, because most of the sympathetic characters, Amidala, Obi-Wan, Yoda, the Jedi,...
... Interesting find, Adrian! I'm so glad you saw and appreciated "Parade." I'm willing to concede that "Playtime" is perhaps the greater film, but I'm just ...
... wrote: When Obi-wan kills Darth Maul, and the audience cheers, he leaves a slot open in the universe that will be filled by Annikin when he become Darth...
... making in ... Wasn't there a piece in Diacritics that saw the Starchild in 2001 as some kind of anti-abortion statement? Michel also wrote a book on that...
... would ... Thanks for that - will quote you in my Kurosawa lecture on Friday. There's a lot of conflicting stories about that movie - I mean to watch the...
... expressed ... did; ... agitprop, ... Fieschi quoted Brecht: "the dramatic aspect ... none of this can be envisioned or conveyed separately from the...
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