Gravity's Audio

[Dave Monroe]

... and Magnolia (1999) simply got on my nerves (though do check out the
blonde's bookshelves [not a euphemism ...], Barthes et al.). Every other
film (putting IV in a good position) ...

Aimee Mann singalong = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fc58PXpKdaU

Meanwhile, Wings of Desire (1987) is starting up on TCM, followed by The 7
Faces of Dr Lao (1964) (and follwing The Thief of Bagdad [1940] + A
Midsummer Night's Dream [1934]), so ...

On Wednesday, November 26, 2014, Carvill John <johncarvill at hotmail.com>
wrote:
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> When you build a film around a titular subject, there has to be some
coherence around that subject, at some stage.
> We were sold a film about a Hubbard-like 'Master', but the vision is
blurry and no matter how impressive the performance, it cannot make up for
the
> emptiness of the role.
> We keep getting hints and flashes of 'The Master', but despite the
indulgent length of the narrative (if you can call it that), we never get
any
> real sense of what Anderson has to say about him. And we cannot escape
the suspicion that this is because there is nothing to say. The character
is
> insufficiently imagined.
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>  >And Anderson sees in America in The Master that 'postwar charisma'
>  >that Pynchon put into GR (in a loopback way; in 72) and he, Anderson,
>  >clearly links Hoffman to the whole
>  >history of "religious' leaders---texts buried in the desert---absolute
>  >intellectual obedience, etc.
>  >
> The film is a scraggly, meandering mess, and not in a good way. If you
filmed Gravity's Rainbow exactly as written, it would be a mess too.
> They are different mediums. A film needs to gel, at some stage, to some
extent at least.
>
>  >Anderson 'reduced' go-nowhereness --like a  reduction in cooking--to
>  >that essential scene where the wounded boy-man struggles only to
>  >please..
>  >
> If you reduce go-nowhereness, you end up with nothing at all.
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>  >Great Hoffman performance, very good Phoenix performance; Amy Adams
>  >just as great: terrif photography; a vision, even if foreshortened by
>  >filmic "demands" and
>  >yet..................almost worthless?........
> I don't think I could possibly agree that any of the performances are
'great'. Hoffman was very good, Phoenix I strongly dislike, always, Adams
is good too.
> But you need more than just good performances, there needs to be
something to perform.
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