... of ... shirt. ... haunting ... It has many levels. Who's making the tape? What for? How coerced is his participation? There are no unambiguous answers to...
... Fuller's episode of THE VIRGINIAN ("It Tolls for Thee") is a superb piece of work. THE VIRGINIAN ran in a 90-minute (with adverts) time slot, so Fuller's...
... Yes, absolutely. By the way, I didn't mean to stifle conversation: I sniff suspiciously at Haneke's stated reasons for making the film, but I don't want...
... adequately ... arguments ... To me the film does have a couple more goals, though it's arguable they are secondary to the task of simply mistreating the...
It's OT, but: Famed Michigan mystery writer Loren D. Estleman has a story in the new, May 2005 issue of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (EQMM) that might amuse...
Have learned that Dutch abstract filmmaker Bart Vegter has a website. It is called: Long Canal and is at: http://www.bave.luna.nl There are stills here from...
... "Why, in the name of gawd, would anyone want to go to a movie about women beating the crap out of one another? (Now, mud wrestling. . .that's another...
the ... want ... Do you think this to be the case, DC? Because it's about as antiwar as you can get. Even Douglas's heroism is undercut by showing him ...
... "p.s. The 2 strip is faked, you can't really do 2 strip or 3 strip now. Essentially Impossible." It's faked alright, but it's not imposssible to do either...
... US !!!! ... now. ... And if I understand Noel's structures, should be called two-color, not two-strip. I enjoyed the piece too - talk about "thin-slicing!"...
... I see his point. What if you could get rid of those nasty generals with a small aggressive action? Something like THE FLOWERS OF ST. FRANCIS might be...
... with a ... It's called fragging, and is not to be confused with war, which is between nation-states. I take your point, and so would Kubrick, who made Full...
... who made Full Metal Jacket to correct the errors of Paths of Glory. Could you expand on this if you can/have time? ... I always thought it was: * Boot Camp...
But Full Metal Jacket isn't an antiwar film. Yes it is. The problem is that it's not a humanist anti-war film. It's actually anti-everything. Pro-war and...
--> It's faked alright, but it's not imposssible to do either one, or so ... Tech IB dye transfer prints are something else. I was reffering to 2 Strip and 3...
... She's got an edge on her, doesn't she. One thing you can say in her behalf is that she contextualizes the behavior of the lead character in that 40-minute...
... All true, but Sam Fuller, when JR and I took him to see it in Santa Barbara, thought it was a pro-war film! (Christa tells me he actually liked the film a...
... "Tech IB dye transfer prints are something else. I was reffering to 2 Strip and 3 Strip cameras and negatives. The film materials that would be needed...
... actually ... If a (H'wd) film is like a war, as Fuller says in Pierrot, ... the ... know ... face," > the image of the death instinct that is programming...
... on ... later. I still have to catch up with PASSIONS (I have the DVD), but CHEKHOV'S MOTIFS has got to be one of the greatest provocations in modern...
... Speck, with a blonde flip hairdo, and his black cellmate, unidentified, are on screen, sitting on either side of a little table - possibly in the...
... because ... I ... hatred ... dealt ... comes ... at ... Thanks - correction accepted. But didn't you think of the killing of the sniper when you finally...
... I've just discovered that stills from the video can be seen here (some in two-frame animated .gif format) -- http://www.mayhem.net/Crime/speck.html craig....
... (some ... Yep, that's it, although you need to see and hear it to get the stuff I was talking about. It's hilarious that Bill Kurtis (the trench- coated...
... making you hate Menjoue et al enough to kill them - are inherent in the anti-war film as a genre, and are part and parcel of a certain type of story and...
... second ... Actually, another article does exist which deals with the film's separate "two parts" from a pyschoanalytic perspective. "Floating 'In a World...
If Sam liked the sniper's war ... I think we also should not neglect the extended close-up on Joker's face as he makes the "mercy killing decision" concerning...
