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

[Bekah]

24-hour Psycho:
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/pictures/image/0,8543,-10104531576,00.html

This started it's public life as a 109-minute movie.

Bekah

On Feb 12, 2010, at 10:52 AM, Thomas Beshear wrote:

> "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.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: rich
> To: Thomas Beshear
> Cc: Bekah ; Mark Kohut ; pynchon -l
> Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 1:35 PM
> Subject: Re: NP BookCourt don delillo is reading here tonight at 7pm  
> forPOINTOMEGA
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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
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> 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
> 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
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> 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
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> On Feb 11, 2010, at 10:42 AM, rich wrote:
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> 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
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> Bekah
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