Due to one of those occasional distribution release oddities, I saw Van Sant's PARANOID PARK here in Seoul today. Highly recommended, enjoyed the film almost...
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Edward Howard
seven_arts112
Nov 24, 2007 4:48 pm
... I'm thinking specifically of the story that's told to Bell, about the sheriff from an older era who's gunned down in front of his wife. To me, this was a...
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David Ehrenstein
cellar47
Nov 24, 2007 5:00 pm
Haven't seen it as yet, but all of Gus' films are homoerotic. And as this one's about skateboarders, doubly so. He has been more than forthcoming about his...
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Edward Howard
seven_arts112
Nov 24, 2007 5:40 pm
... Thanks for the mention. The aforementioned entry would be here: http://seul-le-cinema.blogspot.com/2007/11/1118-mala-noche-flirting-with-disaster.html Van...
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peckinpah20012000
peckinpah200...
Nov 24, 2007 7:39 pm
... We must also remember her work with Euston Film Television Company and her very successful resolution in SHE'S OUT, the final part of the WIDOWS Trilogy...
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peckinpah20012000
peckinpah200...
Nov 24, 2007 7:45 pm
Joe Dante has formed this Web Site which contains comments by directors on various trailers. He speaks about MR. ARKADIN while Larry Cohen comments on BLACK...
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Rick
viajenuevo
Nov 25, 2007 2:30 pm
Last night I watched Vincente Aranda's "Carmen," based not on Bizet's opera, but on Prosper Merimee's novel, and it was quite good. I don't think it was as...
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Peter
lensdarkly
Nov 26, 2007 1:54 pm
... I finally saw "The Blood Spattered Bride" ( thank you Denver Public Library), which I liked much better than Vadim's "Blood and Roses". Both are based on...
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magaroulian
Nov 26, 2007 3:58 pm
... Found it (by googling TrailersfromHell). Thanks Tony. Real problems with getting the trailer/s to load, not to mention with Cohen's obtuseness apropos...
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Rick
viajenuevo
Nov 26, 2007 7:48 pm
... Library), which I liked ... same story by Le Fanu. ... I'm jealous. And my bad; su nombre es Vicente, no "Vincente."...
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Edward Howard
seven_arts112
Nov 27, 2007 1:57 pm
This is a fine review, and my own largely agrees with it: http://seul-le-cinema.blogspot.com/2007/11/1126-im-not-there.html I think anyone who's going to...
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edelvision@...
edelsteindavid
Nov 27, 2007 3:44 pm
Not to get pulled into this... but no one ever complained this wasn't a) a conventional biopic or b) an educational experience. Those are straw men. As someone...
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Marc Raymond
mraymond_1918
Nov 27, 2007 4:08 pm
Looking forward to seeing the film after listening to the debates, it's striking how these same arguments were discussed when I showed FAR FROM HEAVEN in an ...
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David Ehrenstein
cellar47
Nov 27, 2007 5:16 pm
... <edelvision@...> wrote: I don't think that hoping ... Well you're barking up the wrong auteur. Todd has never been about conventional drama or...
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Edward Howard
seven_arts112
Nov 27, 2007 6:22 pm
... Many of the negative reviews of this film have pulled in the inevitable comparisons to Pennebaker's or Scorsese's visions of Dylan, implying that the more...
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edelvision@...
edelsteindavid
Nov 27, 2007 6:34 pm
David, David, David... I cowrote a book with Christine Vachon in the late nineties. I love the Karen Carpenter Story, Dottie Gets Spanked, Poison, Safe,...
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Bilge Ebiri
bilge_ebiri
Nov 27, 2007 9:39 pm
... I dunno, maybe sage had something to do with it? (Sorry, couldn't resist...) -Bilge...
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Michael E. Grost
nzkpzq
Nov 28, 2007 12:45 am
I had a completely different impression of what "I'm Not There" meant than Ed Howard. And my impression could be wrong, wrong wrong. For what it is worth,...
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David Ehrenstein
cellar47
Nov 28, 2007 12:57 am
Well I don't get that sense of things at all. Maybe you had to be familair with Dylan's life because the film lays outany number of the best-known aspects of...
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Edward Howard
seven_arts112
Nov 28, 2007 2:08 am
... Wow, interesting that people could come away with such different interpretations. I obviously didn't get that from the film at all. You may be at least...
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Noel Vera
noelbotevera
Nov 28, 2007 6:13 am
An article on Lav Diaz's latest film Kagadanan sa banwaan ning mga Enkanto (Death in the Land of Encantos, 2007) ...
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Richard Modiano
tharpa2002
Nov 28, 2007 3:35 pm
... "...To reduce Blanchett's portrayal of the mid-60s Dylan to 'a sneering, cynical rock star who cared only for dope' is thus to miss the moments of insight...
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David Ehrenstein
cellar47
Nov 28, 2007 4:04 pm
... "Renaldo and Clara" is referenced in "I'm Not There" FAR more than "Don't Look Back" -- particularly in the Billy the Kid sequences with Richard Gere....
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jpcoursodon
Nov 29, 2007 4:18 am
A few weeks ago we had a thread here about Gremillon, and I made some comments about his film GUEULE D'AMOUR, which I had seen about 25 years ago and...
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chrisbamberger
Nov 29, 2007 9:45 pm
Elaborate advertisement that you may find amusing: http://www.scorsesefilmfreixenet.com/video_eng.htm...
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David Ehrenstein
cellar47
Nov 30, 2007 5:03 am
Well I'm just in from "Sweeney Todd" and it's utterly magnificent. A perfect melding of the sensibilities of Sondheim and Tim Burton in ways I couldn't quite ...
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Michal Oleszczyk
michal.olesz...
Nov 30, 2007 12:16 pm
That's great news. I am awaiting the new version eagerly, and being a Sondheim fan that I am, I couldn't think of a better man to direct "Sweeney Todd" than...
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David Ehrenstein
cellar47
Nov 30, 2007 2:11 pm
Anthony becomes the signifier of youth this time. Depp you might say is former youth gone quickly to seed. The chair is fairly simple (though there's a great ...
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peckinpah20012000
peckinpah200...
Nov 30, 2007 11:06 pm
... Thanks for this information, David. You have really whetted my appetite to return to the cinema, if only for this one occasion, and away from my DVD...
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Marc Raymond
mraymond_1918
Dec 2, 2007 3:10 pm
If everyone hasn't seen this yet, thought I'd let people know. Quite amusing. http://www.scorsesefilmfreixenet.com/video_eng.htm Marc ...
