Where is the love for "The Horse's Mouth"?

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Alec Guinness + Roland Neame + Joyce Cary + John Bratby = CCCCLLLLAAAASSSSSSSSIIIICCCC!

I watched this not knowing a damn thing about it a few weeks ago. It was at the library, I saw three things.

1 - Criterion DVD
2 - with Alec Guinness
3 - playing a cantankerous painter.

Now it's one of my favorite pictures, I've learned about a terrific painter I never heard of before, and I've begun reading the brilliant trilogy of novels that was the basis for the film. I'm totally stoked about this.

Austin Still (Austin, Still), Saturday, 31 December 2005 03:29 (twenty years ago)

i've seen this, but i can't remember a damn thing about it.

is this an institution of learning or a teenage brothel? (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 31 December 2005 03:34 (twenty years ago)

Does this help?


The Resurrection of Lazarus, by Gulley Jimson (um, er, John Bratby)

Austin Still (Austin, Still), Saturday, 31 December 2005 03:36 (twenty years ago)

ooh prokofiev's "lieutenant kije" is on the soundtrack

is this an institution of learning or a teenage brothel? (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 31 December 2005 03:38 (twenty years ago)

Actually, the soundtrack is almost entirely variations on the main Lt. Kije theme.

Austin Still (Austin, Still), Saturday, 31 December 2005 03:39 (twenty years ago)

it's coming back. i saw this about a decade ago at the museum of the moving image in queens.

is this an institution of learning or a teenage brothel? (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 31 December 2005 03:39 (twenty years ago)

I first encountered this tale through the words of Joyce Cary. Gully Jimson, as described in that masterful narrative, wholly impressed me at the time. I have not had the pleasure of viewing the moving picture version. Is it pleasurable as well?

Aimless (Aimless), Saturday, 31 December 2005 03:51 (twenty years ago)

Was I too understated in my praise?

Austin Still (Austin, Still), Saturday, 31 December 2005 03:53 (twenty years ago)

I'm in the same boat with Aimless, which is no doubt Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men In A Boat, with the third passenger as yet unspecified.
The novel The Horse's Mouth is one of the better books about the artistic temperament.

Redd Harvest (Ken L), Saturday, 31 December 2005 08:29 (twenty years ago)

And, excuse my transatlantic ignorance, but isn't Ronald Neame a bit of a hack? Or maybe that's part of his charm.

Redd Harvest (Ken L), Saturday, 31 December 2005 08:58 (twenty years ago)

Just because you made "The Posiedon Adventure" doesn't mean you can't make a good movie, too.

Austin Still (Austin, Still), Saturday, 31 December 2005 13:42 (twenty years ago)

I love this book (and the rest of the trilogy). One of my mom's fave raves hence a sentimental pick.

Must see movie.

m coleman (lovebug starski), Saturday, 31 December 2005 13:53 (twenty years ago)

I saw the Criterion version around this time last year...classic. Alec Guinness' best performance.

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Saturday, 31 December 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago)

I've seen the end of this film once, many years ago. I did like it, but it was a random 'flip around the channels and stumble across Alec Guinness' experience.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 31 December 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

Liked the film as a kid, don't want to re-see til I've read Cary.

Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 31 December 2005 20:13 (twenty years ago)

four years pass...

I did read the book a few months ago; stellar character study.

Also, RIP Ronald Neame:

http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/1994

kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 19 June 2010 19:37 (sixteen years ago)


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