Lost City of Z

[Laura Kelber]

Pretty much the same for me. I remember being underwhelmed, but can't even
remember why.

Laura

On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 5:53 PM, Johnny Marr <marrja at gmail.com> wrote:

> I saw it on a big screen, which brought out its panoramic scale, but can't
> pretend it gripped me or left much of an impression. Suffered from an
> uncharismatic lead.
>
> On Monday, September 25, 2017, Bruno <bruno.laze at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> If you focus on the main character you'll enjoy the film. It's about
>> obsession and its connection to British imperialism.
>> One aspect of powerful nations is "the industry of memory": turn the past
>> into products like museums, books, flags in the South and North Poles and
>> the Moon, etc.
>>
>> Nowadays, I bet there are biopirates working for big corporations
>> behaving exactly like Percy Fawcett, searching for plants that will turn
>> into profitable shit.
>>
>>
>> 2017-09-25 6:17 GMT-05:00 David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> It got good reviews, but I kept watching in about 15 min spurts before
>>> turning it off.  Didn't make it to the Jaguars.
>>>
>>> David Morris
>>>
>>> On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 12:05 AM L E Bryan <lebryan at sonic.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Sounded interesting so I found it on Amazon Prime. Started watching it
>>>> but when they got into the jungle I became distracted by hearing what
>>>> seemed to be Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring. Yes. No doubt about it. What the
>>>> hell was that doing here? I wonder if his heirs got credit for the snippet.
>>>> Okay back to the film. Wait. Some soprano is singing. Where did that come
>>>> from? Oh. They came across an opera being performed in an unmapped town
>>>> somewhere in the jungle around Bolivia. All right. So now more film. This
>>>> time to Ravel’s Daphnis & Chloe. I can see the writer now. Let’s see this
>>>> is getting boring, what can we do on a river in Amazon country? Why of
>>>> course. Flesh eating fish. Can’t have an Amazon film with out piranhas. Oh.
>>>> As long as we have piranhas lets throw in some natives with spears and
>>>> arrows. And so it went… about this time I looked to see how long until it
>>>> was over. <sigh> Okay. I’ll watch a bit more. Nice water falls. Just in
>>>> time as they are out of food, a nice boar pops up for them to shoot and
>>>> eat, The obligatory jaguar makes a brief appearance, but apparently got
>>>> most of its footage left on the cutting room floor. But wait? Our hero
>>>> spots something off in the jungle. What could it be? Oh. A small pottery
>>>> shard. What a great eye he had! I gave up then.
>>>>
>>>> How do people get funds to make such shit? I was curious to see if
>>>> Ravel, Stravinsky, Bach and so on got credit, so I watched the credits.
>>>> There were hundreds of names! And yes, they did list the music and give
>>>> credit.
>>>>
>>>> Lawrence
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> > On Sep 24, 2017, at 6:48 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> > Borders, surveys, mystical history, Single Capital Letters.  P is
>>>> written all over this.
>>>> > David Morris
>>>>
>>>>
>>
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