Breaking the waves

[RICHARD ROMEO]

Paul Murphy wrote:



Actually, von Trier's most recent one (before _Breaking the Waves_) was 
his

4 hour TV-movie _The Kingdom_, which is absolutely brilliant a-and

Pynchonesque, especially all of the parapsychology bits.

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Saw The Kingdom last year.  Whoa, strange, scary, really funny.  The 
Network version for the modern day hospital.  That ending--wasn't that 
guy whose "reborn",  in those Madonna videos?  The doc  group who 
practice black magic;  the doc who lives in the basement selling coke 
(which he makes from the wastes of the hospital?) and doing favors on the 
side.  I could go on and on.  Never on American TV, so sad.  Makes George 
C Scott's The Hospital (1971) seem tame--that written by Paddy Chayevsky? 
 I think it was



Richard Romeo

Coordinator of Cooperating Collections

The Foundation Center-NYC

212-807-2417

rromeo at fdncenter.org