NP: From the Lynch to the Solondz

[Steven Koteff]

Doesn't look like there are any books about Solondz out there, but if
anybody happens to know of any good interviews with/articles about him, I'd
appreciate the recommendation. Will do my own digging as well, obviously.

While we're on the subject, I found this Amazon review of the screenplay
for *Dollhouse *on Amazon. It is my belief that this guy does not get it.


*4.0 out of 5 stars*
<http://www.amazon.com/review/R2P6BEKN8IS2HZ/ref=cm_cr_dp_title?ie=UTF8&ASIN=0571190502&channel=detail-glance&nodeID=283155&store=books>Evil
and funny!
<http://www.amazon.com/review/R2P6BEKN8IS2HZ/ref=cm_cr_dp_title?ie=UTF8&ASIN=0571190502&channel=detail-glance&nodeID=283155&store=books>
By John T. Coates
<http://www.amazon.com/gp/pdp/profile/A4821U19QIH28/ref=cm_cr_dp_pdp> on
September 9, 2000
Format: Paperback
While you read this screenplay, you'll regret laughing at such a sad and
tortured little girl. But then you'll say "Oh, what the hell..." and laugh
some more. This is a comedy, and it's supposed to make you laugh. For
people who like black comedies.

On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 9:09 PM, Steven Koteff <steviekoteff at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Your outdoor friends had more liberal tastes than mine, who didn't get too
> far afield from *The Boondock Saints*.
>
> On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 6:34 PM, Perry Noid <coolwithdoc at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> "Weiner, *you* better get ready, 'cause at three o'clock today, I'm
>> gonna *RAPE you*!"
>>
>> It was one of those high school movies that my friends and I would rent
>> and watch if we could find nothing else at the video stop to agree on, or
>> the kind of movie to watch with friends who aren't exactly interested in
>> "arty" or "intellectual" movies because it has something for both types of
>> stoopid high schoolers, the indoor and outdoor kids (I'll let you all guess
>> which one of the two I was). Other movies like that for me were Dazed and
>> Confused, Harold and Maude, Apocalypse Now, Full Metal Jacket, Swingers,
>> Trainspotting...the list goes on.
>>
>> I don't think I have seen any other Solondz flicks. Happiness has been on
>> my watchlist for quite a while. I worked at a teeny movie theater (before I
>> worked at the University film center, I worked in more than one theater
>> growing up) and missed it when we showed it way back when and just haven't
>> gotten around to seeing it yet. Lemme know what you think of Happiness
>> whenever you get to it.
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 3:45 PM, Steven Koteff <steviekoteff at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Just finishing David Lynch in our movie project (whom I have become sort
>>> of obsessed with; I can't overhype the esteem I hold him in now; he's on my
>>> internal Olympus of artmakers) and moving into Todd Solondz.
>>>
>>> We watched TS's *Welcome to the Dollhouse *last night, and I really
>>> recommend it to anyone who hasn't seen it. It's kind of a remarkable movie.
>>> It's really just the story of a very socially-unfortunate suburban
>>> 11-yr-old named Dawn. The persistent agony of her life as she comes of age.
>>> It manages to be remarkably sad and moving about straightforwardly
>>> emotional material without ever (in my opinion) becoming sentimental. It's
>>> interesting to watch it on the heels of Lynch's stuff, as they both include
>>> a lot of material that is overtly high-drama yet earn it in totally
>>> different ways, despite both embracing the drama head-on. Solondz is much
>>> dryer, though not at all disaffected. Very dark, very funny. Also maybe the
>>> best and truest treatment of young characters (and use of young actors) I
>>> can remember seeing in a movie. Maybe it helps that I was a child in
>>> roughly the same era of the movie. But I think it's really well-done. There
>>> are a few minor story elements I might quibble with, but not enough to
>>> really diminish the effect of the movie much.
>>>
>>> Anybody seen this thing? Is Solondz generally on your radar?
>>>
>>> Apparently his new movie stars Greta Gerwig as the girl from *Dollhouse
>>> *all grown up.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
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