NP: Postcard from LA

[Richard Romeo]

saw it last week. reminded me a lot of Paul West's novel, The Women of 
Whitechapel, which is also highly recommended.  much better than Sleepy 
Hollow, IMHO.

Mulholland Drive was great as well.

"with the war on tv, we all went to the movies"  --don delillo

Rich


>From: Thomas Eckhardt <thomaseckhardt at yahoo.de>
>To: David Gentle <Gentle_Family at btinternet.com>,   "'Pynchon List'" 
><pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: NP: Postcard from LA
>Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 22:16:11 +0200 (CEST)
>
> > What was From Hell like?
>
>Quite OK. Very stylish. Provides a nice solution to
>the Jack-the-Ripper-mystery, and, for a Hollywood
>movie, a lot of social, historical, cultural, medical
>details and background. All of this is certainly taken
>from Moore and Campbell's graphic novel. The great
>Robbie Coltrane is in it. Splatter and gore are mostly
>left to the imagination, which, in this case, is a
>good thing. Unfortunately the amount of spilled blood
>etc. increases substantially near the end of the
>movie. Special note: Provides interesting and, as far
>as I know, accurate details about the drug scene of
>the late 19th Century (Absinth, Laudanum, Opium).
>
>Nevermind that Heather Graham plays the most
>virginlike whore since Julia Roberts - this is
>Hollywood.
>
>Thomas
>
>
>
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