Enjoying The Dude

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

There are worse Cults you could follow, I guess ... 
 
It's just that pathetic old-men-sentimentality which is so profoundly 
off-turning to me. 

Last night my wife and I watched Oshima's "Violence At High Noon" [1966],
this goes far more way up my alley ...

Kai

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> From: johncarvill at hotmail.com
> To: lorentzen at hotmail.de; pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: Enjoying The Dude
> Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 11:30:46 +0000
>
>
> Heh. The Dude abides.-
> I just received a copy of renowned film critic David Thomson's 'Have You Seen...?', and his entry on Lebowski is pretty good. He says the film is "a key work of late-twentieth-century culture (whereas a lot of more vaunted things aren't)" and (sort of) sees The Dude as a continuation of Elliott Gould's Marlowe from Altman's 'The Long Goodbye'.-
> You can read the entry here via Amazon's 'Search Inside' feature:-
> http://www.amazon.com/Have-You-Seen-Personal-Introduction/dp/0307264610
>
> - Cheers
> JC
>
>
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>> From: lorentzen at hotmail.de
>> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>> Subject: RE: enjoying IV
>> Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 12:23:33 +0200
>>
>>
>> We're hitting RELIGIOUS territory ...
>> ;-)
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>>>> I found the Big Lebowski annoying
>>>> enough that I stopped paying attention to it the first time
>>>> I tried to watch it
>>>
>>> I'm sorry, but if what you say is true, I just cannot pay attention to anything else you may say...
>>> z.
>>>