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> David Morris at fqmorris at yahoo.com wrote:
> 
> I am a huge C-Bros fan, and I saw the  trailer for "The Man Who Wasn't
> There" before Mullholland Drive.  These film directors are "doing Pynchon"
> to some degreee.  And Pynchon was doing them...

>> From: "Paul Mackin"
>> 
>> I guess I liked it well enough--my next to favorite movie seen in the last
>> few weeks. I think I was more engrossed by "The Man Who Wasn't There."

I agree. I happened to catch their first movie, _Blood Simple_, some years
back, and have been a big fan ever since.  _The Big Lebowski_ is a classic.
I even liked _The Hudsucker Proxy_ when I saw it a couple of weeks ago, even
though it was so stylised. But that was all part of the *deliberate*
intertextuality of it (i.e. the "intertextualism"). Like Pynchon, they
pastiche the *style* of other great directors and film genres, and this is a
big part of the appeal of their work.

If you've never seen _Blood Simple_ I really recommend it.

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