Movie of Recognitions called "Certified Copy"

[Dave Monroe]

Anybody here actually see it?  I ended up having to see it in two
halves (consecutive, @ least, but ...), possibly the worst way to see
it (nonconsecutive halves excepted), so ...

On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 1:04 AM, Edward A Moore <edmoorester at gmail.com> wrote:

> http://www.imdb.com/news/ni8855826/
>
> Certified Copy
>
> 2010
>
> Abbas Kirostami
>
> English, French, and Italian
>
> Of all the dense, intertwined ironies in William Gaddis’s novel The
> Recognitions (some of which may not be ironies at all, but actual
> truth), the slyest but also least reticent comes out in a conversation
> between a young painter, Wyatt Gwyon, and the sinister art dealer
> Recktall Brown. “It’s a question of being surrounded by people who
> don’t have any sense that what they are doing means anything… If
> everybody else’s life is interchanged and nobody can stop and say,
> That is mine, this is my work, then how can they see it in mine,”
> Wyatt asks. The irony is that Wyatt is exclusively a forger, an
> incredibly talented one, mostly of Flemish masterpieces. His method,
> handed down to him, is to reject any semblance of originality – “The
> romantic disease” – and perfect the forms of the masters through
> repetition. »


On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 1:18 AM, Jed Kelestron <jedkelestron at gmail.com> wrote:

> http://www.soundonsight.org/certified-copy/