Of Time and the Wine

[Andrew Dinn]

MASCARO at humnet.ucla.edu writes:

> Don,

> Satori, at last!  All questions not so much answered as--decanted.
> *Vast waistband* is brilliant, the apotheosis of the inflated
> figure.  What are the titles of some of those shoestring European
> films (are you sure you didn't mean shoestring potatoes)? Are they
> good? Can I rent them at my local Blockbuster?  Was his MACBETH one
> of those?  Your obviously learned, laid back, and sincere
> appreciation for Welles forces me to reconsider some of my ideas
> about him.

Two of those classics are his Othello, premiered at the first ever
Edinburgh Film Festival in the early 50s, and his (almost completed)
Don Quixote, again premiered at Edinburgh 2 years ago. Both are
utterly superb but I don't think either is available on video (shame
on you for wanting to experience them in such cramped conditions - go
for the full-scale Roxy real estate experience). If you must see
classic Welles on video then follow Don's advice and get `Touch of
Evil', whose cabin scene with the leather clad Mexican kids dancing
the pants off of Charlton Heston's wife always reminded me of the
scene with the Paranoids serenading Oedipa and Metzger in the Echo
Motel in COL49.


Andrew Dinn
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