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| Syd |
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| This is something Roderick Heath (remember him?) was getting into in his review of "Sorry Wrong Number," which is obviously a good movie, but was originally done as an extremely effective radio play. Radio is extremely effective at claustrophobia (and actually anything that requires you to visualize--see "Radio Days" or listen to 40s and 50s radio shows). If I remember. McLuhan referred to it as a hot medium, since it required the audience to be participants rather than viewers. |
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| Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2024 2:33 pm |
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Syd wrote:
Sounds like he was being cute, but not for a mass audience. I haven't seen much Lynch but the only one I really liked was Mulholland Dr. (I haven't seen the Elephant Man since I grew up with the story. I didn't want to see it in film.)
Yep, Mul Dr. was an interesting trip into the LA subconscious, did what surrealism does okay. I guess the monkey thing was a...pet project. I am sure that more of a Lynch fan would have supplied what was needed, but I had no idea what that was.
I hope radio never dies, for the reasons you mention. Gary Keillor certainly helped keep that storytelling aspect alive, with his PHC show, e.g. the Guy Noir episodes.
Still have McLuhan in a book box somewhere, should unpack those and reread his magnum opus,in light of all the changes since then. |
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| Posted: Sun Jan 19, 2025 11:05 pm |
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| I see some complaints about it but I like the live action remake of Disney's Beauty and the Beast. I had forgotten how moving the scene was when it all is lost, and the next scene when all is won. Although I still think the Beast looked better than the human he became. (Belle suggests he should grow a beard.) |
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| Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2025 3:02 am |
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It's three in the morning, and I'm wondering how people didn't notice that Liberty Valance was killed by a bullet coming from a different direction than the gunman he was facing. Unless, of course, he wasn't.
I can't remember if James Stewart's character was using a pistol or rifle. If the former, that's a problem, too. Though people weren't looking too closely. |
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| It's eleven in the morning and I can barely remember who did shoot Mr. Valance. I do remember the paper was called the Shinbone Star, however. (the only reason I recall this is because a journalist friend of mine occasionally writes for some online zine called the Shinbone Star, which is entirely bloggish stuff from retired journalists) |
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| Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2025 6:30 pm |
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| Spoiler: John Wayne's character shoots Liberty at the exact moment Jimmy Stewart fires his gun, but from the side, hidden, and with a rifle. Or did he? |
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| Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2025 8:38 pm |
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| Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2025 9:34 pm |
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gromit wrote: Move over Julie and Julia, I've decided to get my French cooking lessons from Jeanne. That is Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles. It's going to take a bit for this film to sink in. I'm glad (in a way) that I didn't realize it was over 3 hours long, as I probably would have buried it in a second-tier to-watch pile had I known.
The film is mesmerizing at times, maddening at others. Minimalist, realist, largely silent. A static camera mostly set in the rooms of one apartment captures the household chores and routine of the title character -- a suburban housewife trying to be perfect and precise in her life and behavior, despite needs. You know something is wrong when cooking and quiet desperation are the highlights of your day.
Until Criterion's recent release, this 1976 Chantal Akerman film was apparently quite difficult to get hold of.
This is the #1 film in the Sight & Sound critics poll of 2022. I had never heard of it, but I suspect it's better than 2001, which won the director's poll. I tried to record it a while back and they dropped the film for some reason. |
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