recent movies

[Christopher Tassava]

Speaking of recently released, subversive movies:

Has anyone seen Jarmusch's _Dead Man_, with Depp, Farmer, et al?  I saw 
it on the Fourth (as good a day as any to see it) on the strength of 
_The Chicago Reader_ review (penned by Jonathan Rosenbaum, if anyone 
knows his criticism) and I liked it.  It wasn't "Pynchonian," if that 
means "complexly layered," but it was profoundly ambiguous, grotesquely 
violent, and, I thought, rather gripping.  I'd recommend it to anyone 
willing to risk it, with the caveat that you may hate it.  (Not that 
anyone on this list would ever come out strongly for or against 
any given work of art...)  Any opinions?

Xferen

"No, this is not a
disentanglement from,
but a progressive
knotting into..."

Thomas Pynchon