The Gnostic Pynchon
Dave Monroe
monroe at mpm.edu
Sat Jun 24 01:43:49 CDT 2000
... but I'm all for Mifune as well, happiness is, indeed, when Mifune
comes out of the cellar. The goofy brother is the Danish Benny Hill,
no? With the Danish Bill Pullman and the Danish Patricia Arquette (Iben
Hjelje, by the way, is in High Fidelity as well). But it's the year of
the samurai and the samurai-related, it seems, Jim Jarmusch's Ghost Dog,
recent video releases of Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Samourai (by which
Forrest Whittaker lives in Ghost Dog, far more so than any
eighteenth-century "Way of the Samurai," the cars, the birds), Zatoichi
vs. Yojimbo (speaking of Mifune ...), you name it. Although apparently
Mifune's director took some heat from the Dogme 95, er, "crowd" for
breaking a few of the rules, despite that D95 seal of Approval at the
beginning. Now am just waiting for the new Lars von Trier film to come
'round. The Danes, the Taiwanese, and, esp., weirdly, the Iranians seem
to have taken over the art houses ...
Vaska Tumir wrote:
> P.S. Just saw Mifune. A great little Danish film well worth
> catching. It picked up something in Cannes, but in Toronto, at least,
> it's playing only in the rep cinemas.
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