NP BookCourt don delillo is reading here tonight at 7pm forPOINTOMEGA

[Thomas Beshear]

"Satantango" is an experience. I would be easier to do on home video. 
I've seen "24-Hour Psycho" -- well, about 20 minutes of it at a museum -- and that helped me connect to Point Omega right away.
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  From: rich 
  To: Thomas Beshear 
  Cc: Bekah ; Mark Kohut ; pynchon -l 
  Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 1:35 PM
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  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.
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      From: rich 
      To: Bekah 
      Cc: Mark Kohut ; pynchon -l 
      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
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