MDMD(5): Dreams and Boundaries

[Dave Monroe]

Very quickly, as I catch up on a weekend's worth of
bidness here.  Finally saw the rerelease of Monty
Python and the Holy Grail in the past week or so. 
Satirical to absurdist historical fiction + knowing to
pointed deployment of historical fact + musical
numbers + ... well, all I can say is, it's perhaps
only a matter of time before the "Now a Major Motion
Picture" eds. of those Pynchonian texts.  And my money
is on Our Man Pynchon this Thursday (Norman Mailer? 
Philip Roth?  Joyce Carol Oates?  Though Yves Bonnefoy
was an interesting surprise) ...

--- Michel Ryckx <michel.ryckx at freebel.net> wrote:
> Just wondering: two weeks ago, I asked why we took
> magic for granted in mr. Marquez' novels, and why we
> don't accept it as readily when discussing a mr.
> Pynchon novel.

And, by the way, the Chicago Film Festival's on ...

http://www.chicagofilmfestival.com

Saw Waking Life (Richard Linklater, who was there;
Roger "Bud" [as in "Melman"] Ebert was across the
aisle from me; didn't ask for autograph ...),
absolutely amazing.  Mulholland Drive (David Lynch),
ditto.  Had to skip Amelie (Jeunet) and The Fat Girl
(Breillat; they were head-to-head anyway), but J-L
Godard's Band of Outsiders (A bande a part) is
tonight, though I hear now Anna Karina's cancelled
out.  There's this Bollywood criocekt epic, though
(Lagaan) ...

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