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Re: side-tracked, again


but how can i compare gdbd to eve???!!

:)

you see, city of the lost children is certainly in my top ten favorite 
films.  and this is why i asked the question- i keep running into rather 
intelligent people, (including my artistic mentors) who agree with you 
concerning delicatessen and cotlc.  and yeah, they also generally agree that 
barton fink is one of the coen brother's finest films, if not the best.  
now, see...

it just worries me.  as someone pursuing the arts and entertainment as a 
career (Lord help me), i want to be in on this intelligent view of my 
favorite films.  but i've come to think that my judgement lies heavily on 
whether or not a film is pretty.  (sigh... this is either an endearing 
quality or a fatal flaw...)  i just thought cotlc was beautiful- it's 
visually stunning.  and i love how all the colors look super-saturated- as 
if they were hand tinted on a second pass.  and the story was beautiful and 
engrossing.  (i guess i don't need to explain why it was a good movie!)

and delicatessen i liked, but it just didn't grab hold of me like cotlc.  
and barton fink- i hated it!  that wallpaper made me want to, um, run for 
the bathroom.  but people do tell me that it is excellently written, finely 
crafted- just ingenious all around.  :p  me, i love raising arizona, 
miller's crossing is masterfully written, fargo is excellent, lebowski is 
mesmerizing eye-candy, oh brother is a quirky bit of golden bliss, and 
hudsucker is my favorite.  but nobody agrees with me there.  in fact, most 
people i respect disliked it.  it just seems to me to contain all of the 
coen traits in one movie.

(and i haven't seen blood simple..)
and good gracious how have you not seen raising arizona, mr. smith???

ah, but anyway.

a bit too much talk about my favorite films, methinks.  so did anybody see 
'requiem for a dream?'


hee

melanie
(would love to know more about those lebowski film noir conventions)


'and there's what's right, and there's what's right, and never the twain 
shall meet.'




>From: Don Smith <dasmith at rotse2_physics.lsa.umich.edu>
>Reply-To: Don Smith <dasmith at rotse2_physics.lsa.umich.edu>
>To: Over-the-Rhine at actwin_com (Over the Rhine List)
>Subject: Re: side-tracked, again
>Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 19:19:00 -0500 (EST)
>
>Ah, movies...
>
>Much as I love City of Lost Children (the chain of causes sequence was
>absolutely stunning), I have to say I think Delicatessen is by *far* the
>superior film.  CoLC seems to exist in its own universe, which some may see 
>as
>a strength, but I felt that it gave the filmmakers liscence to get 
>unfocussed.
>Anything goes, because there are no limitations except those of style.
>It was a fun ride, but at the end, I wasn't sure what I had just seen.
>With Delicatessen, I got the feeling that the characters existed outside
>the limits of what we were shown; they had a history, a culture, and
>(maybe) a future.  CoLC seemed to exist in a bottle.
>
>Perhaps it depends on which you see first, much like whether you like GDBD
>versus Eve (just kidding! ;-)), but Delicatessen will always be one of my
>all-time top ten favorite films, and CoLC barely makes the top 50.
>
>Now, as far as the Coen's go, I was bored *stiff* during Barton Fink, so I
>don't understand why anyone would rave about that one.  I haven't seen 
>Raising
>Arizona or Miller's Crossing, but I was impressed with the characters in 
>Fargo
>(as grossed out as I was with the subject matter), and The Big Lebowski had 
>me
>*rolling* on the floor with its parodies of film noir conventions.  I found 
>O
>Brother Where Art Thou quaint and charming, if ultimately fluffy.  Blood 
>Simple
>was taut and chilling, very well constructed for a first effort.  Hudsucky
>Proxy was fascinating, although it failed to really engage me with the
>characters.  Jennifer Jason Leigh just made me want to go watch more 
>Rosalind
>Russell movies.  :-) So, I can't explain Barton Fink.  Anyone?
>
>Back to work...
>--
>Don Smith                    Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment
>dasmith at rotse2_physics.lsa.umich.edu        http://xte.mit.edu/~dasmith/
>
>"Go to red alert!"  "Are you *absolutely* sure, sir?
>It does mean changing the bulb."			    - Red Dwarf
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