NP BookCourt don delillo is reading here tonight at 7pm for POINTOMEGA

[rich]

he didn't last, neither did we. but it was great anyway. BAM made the rather
dumb decision to have the movie start at like 5pm on a Sunday (w/ an
intermission)--doubt many people stayed till the end, 2am or thereabouts

rich

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Thomas Beshear <tbeshear at insightbb.com>wrote:

>  Did he stay till the end? I watched it on video a couple years ago --
> amazing movie, tho' I prefer Wreckmeister Harmonies, which, at 2:20 minutes,
> is a distillation of his technique, plus I like that story better. The
> opening scene in the bar, where a young man uses patrons to create a model
> of the solar system, is one of the most beautiful in world cinema.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
> *To:* Bekah <bekker2 at mac.com>
> *Cc:* Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> ; pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> *Sent:* Friday, February 12, 2010 9:58 AM
> *Subject:* Re: NP BookCourt don delillo is reading here tonight at 7pm for
> POINTOMEGA
>
> never saw DeLillo speak but had something happen that was even better--he
> sat a few rows away from me at BAM to watch the 7 hour movie Satantango a
> few yrs back
>
> I will argue with any that the prologue, Pafko at the Wall, from
> Underworld, ranks among the best writing of the last 25 yrs, in this country
>
>
> rich
>
> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 11:31 PM, Bekah <bekker2 at mac.com> wrote:
>
>> Oh I am so green that you get to see and hear DeLillo.    Yes,  I finished
>> Point Omega and enjoyed it more than Cosmopolis,  less than Underworld.
>> (heh) - Kind of like Falling Man but maybe a tad better - hard telling - an
>> interesting addition to his oeuvre though.    I think I enjoyed it more than
>> you appear to.  I was kind of involved in the ideas of anonymity and
>> intimacy as expressed in the settings.   While in NY the characters were
>> very self-involved,  in the desert the film-maker and his subject became
>> close as people.   And there was a kind of suspense which ticked through the
>> whole  book - never really heavy-duty but always there,  ominous.
>>
>> Bekah
>>
>>
>>
>> On Feb 11, 2010, at 10:42 AM, rich wrote:
>>
>> finished Point Omega y'day--I wish he wrote about the rumsfeld-like
>>> character more--the side story w/ his daughter/filmmaker to me felt
>>> pointless, and the whole 24-hour Psycho movie in slo-mo was just laborious.
>>> like trying to swallow molasses. nothing to really hold u rapt, its all
>>> mind, like having dinner with a drunken and grumpy philosopher of some sort
>>>
>>> he writes some fine sentences but all that stripped down musings on film,
>>> art, and space/time just too thin to hang all that heavy shit on
>>>
>>> so, back to gitta sereny's great book on albert speer
>>> rich
>>>
>>> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> BookCourt    don delillo is reading here tonight at 7pm for POINT OMEGA
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Bekah
>> http://tinyurl.com/my-bloggish-thing
>>
>>
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