― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Monday, 17 October 2005 21:55 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.filmlinc.com/wrt/showing/spanish05.htm
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 5 December 2005 15:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 00:25 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.villagevoice.com/film/0549,morales,70712,20.html
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 22:20 (eighteen years ago) link
I saw it and found it really frustrating. I'm not sure how many of those "postmodernist quirks" were Welles' and how many were invented by Franco using the In the Land of Don Quixote footage.
The dubbed voices were really terrible--especially in light of Welles' hyper-attention to the way actors sounded. I couldn't tell how many of the jokes were just flat and how many suffered due to the hammy dubbing.
I'm not sure why the footage looked so awful--if Welles used bad stock, or if it wasn't preserved well or if Franco did that to normalize the look of the film, but I felt like I was watching a movie on an Apple II.
I mean, I'm still glad I saw it and these are just my first impressions, but it certainly wasn't a particularly enjoyable film going experience.
― C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Friday, 23 December 2005 02:25 (eighteen years ago) link
Either the footage had deteriorated, or OW was delusional that hewas making something releasable.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 23 December 2005 14:13 (eighteen years ago) link
"Ours, the scientists keep telling us, is a universe which is disposable. You know it might be just this one anonymous glory of all things, this rich stone forest, this epic chant, this gaiety, this grand choiring shout of affirmation, which we choose when all our cities are dust; to stand intact, to mark where we have been, to testify to what we had it in us to accomplish. Our works in stone, in paint, in print are spared, some of them for a few decades, or a millenium or two, but everything must fall in war or wear away into the ultimate and universal ash: the triumphs and the frauds, the treasures and the fakes. A fact of life... we're going to die. 'Be of good heart,' cry the dead artists out of the living past. Our songs will all be silenced - but what of it? Go on singing. Maybe a man's name doesn't matter all that much."
― gear (gear), Sunday, 12 March 2006 21:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 12 March 2006 21:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Sunday, 12 March 2006 21:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 12 March 2006 21:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― I'm thinking six, six, six (noodle vague), Sunday, 12 March 2006 21:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 12 March 2006 22:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― phil d. (Phil D.), Sunday, 12 March 2006 22:48 (eighteen years ago) link
It never made an impression. Reportedly Welles wanted to cast Agnes Moorehead in the role that eventually went to Edward G. Robinson, but the studio nixed the idea. Fascinating.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Sunday, 12 March 2006 22:49 (eighteen years ago) link
i thought this movie was wonderful!
― PRIVATE HELL 36 (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 13 March 2006 05:10 (eighteen years ago) link
yeah, the trailer is awesome.
i love this movie.
― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 03:01 (eighteen years ago) link
ringwald gets her comeuppance.
― The Man Without Shadow (Enrique), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 12:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 18 March 2006 15:15 (eighteen years ago) link
the stuff on the second disc is rad.
― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 18 March 2006 15:16 (eighteen years ago) link
Amoeba is good for that. There's a whole section of nothing but Critierion discs (they know their crowd) and many discs turn up used.
Yeah, all the bonus features look a treat. :-)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 18 March 2006 15:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― mike h. (mike h.), Saturday, 18 March 2006 20:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Saturday, 18 March 2006 20:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 18 March 2006 20:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― latebloomer is a belly with a guy pierce in it (latebloomer), Saturday, 18 March 2006 21:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 18 March 2006 21:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 18 March 2006 21:07 (eighteen years ago) link
well, no, it doesn't suck, but it hasn't dated well
i am teaching "f for fake" on monday!
― amateurist0, Saturday, 18 March 2006 21:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Saturday, 18 March 2006 22:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 19 March 2006 03:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 19 March 2006 06:23 (eighteen years ago) link
F is for Fake -- great mindfuck, partly because it appears that he's hellbent on deconstructing his own cinematic authority when in fact he's doing the OPPOSITE (viz. his locating himself in the editing room) - his capricious excursions and tangents from whatever loose plot there is only underline his ultimate control. especially vis-a-vis the half-naked girls who show up from time to time.
-- Tracer Hand (tracerhan...), February 10th, 2002.
So there you go. ;-)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 19 March 2006 06:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 19 March 2006 09:01 (eighteen years ago) link
its one of my favourite movies of all time, formally and it moves me emotionally too
― anthony easton (anthony), Sunday, 19 March 2006 09:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mr Jones (Mr Jones), Sunday, 19 March 2006 10:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 19 March 2006 11:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mr Jones (Mr Jones), Sunday, 19 March 2006 11:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 19 March 2006 14:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Sunday, 19 March 2006 18:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 19 March 2006 18:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 19 March 2006 18:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Sunday, 19 March 2006 18:37 (eighteen years ago) link
http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:xnmm9TyWYm49dM:images.amazon.com/images/G/01/books/ripping-yarns/palin-intro-tomkinsons-roje.jpg
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 19 March 2006 18:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 19 March 2006 18:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Sunday, 19 March 2006 18:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― mike h. (mike h.), Sunday, 19 March 2006 23:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 19 March 2006 23:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 19 March 2006 23:16 (eighteen years ago) link
Wait, isn't that a photo from the back cover of Music From Big Pink?
― The Day The World Turned Dayglo Redd (Ken L), Monday, 20 March 2006 01:45 (eighteen years ago) link
(and the movie itself is marvelous needneedneed that 3xdvd set...)
― joseph (joseph), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 03:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― Cunga (Cunga), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 04:32 (seventeen years ago) link